Z.ai: GLM 5.2 vs Mistral Medium 3.1
Compare Z.ai: GLM 5.2 by Zhipu AI against Mistral Medium 3.1 by Mistral AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 131K, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Mistral Medium 3.1Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Slight edge
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Input
$1.40
Output
$4.40
Mistral Medium 3.1
Input
$0.40
3.5× cheaper
Output
$2.00
2.2× cheaper
Mistral Medium 3.1 is cheaper on both — 3.5× input, 2.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
34%
Mistral Medium 3.1 uses 39.3x more emoji
Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Mistral Medium 3.1
56%Vocabulary52%
18wSentence Length22w
0.27Hedging0.45
3.7Bold10.4
2.8Lists5.9
0.00Emoji0.39
0.56Headings1.12
0.24Transitions0.18
Based on 27 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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