Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) vs GLM-5.2 (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) by Google or GLM-5.2 (Max) by Z AI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Clear winner

GoogleGemini 3.8 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 40.90
Total cost: $1623

Z AIGLM-5.2 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 33.70
Total cost: $2097

Verdict

Pick Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)

GLM-5.2 (Max) vs Gemini 3.8 Flash (High): 17.6% less intelligence, 29.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 9.1% faster end-to-end.

Metric	Gemini 3.8 Flash (High)	GLM-5.2 (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	40.9	33.7	−17.6% GLM-5.2 (Max) is 17.6% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,622.73	$2,097.29	+29.2% GLM-5.2 (Max) is 29.2% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	33.13s	30.10s	−9.1% GLM-5.2 (Max) is 9.1% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.75 / $3.75	$1.40 / $4.40
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.8 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
GLM-5.2 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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