GLM-5.2 (Max) vs GPT-6.1 Sol (High)

Which is better for the money: GLM-5.2 (Max) by Z AI or GPT-6.1 Sol (High) by OpenAI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Clear winner

Z AIGLM-5.2 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 33.70
Total cost: $2097

OpenAIGPT-6.1 Sol (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 50.20
Total cost: $521

Verdict

Pick GPT-6.1 Sol (High)

GPT-6.1 Sol (High) vs GLM-5.2 (Max): 49.0% more intelligence, 75.1% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 62.0% slower end-to-end.

Metric	GLM-5.2 (Max)	GPT-6.1 Sol (High)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	33.7	50.2	+49.0% GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is 49.0% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$2,097.29	$521.32	−75.1% GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is 75.1% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	28.14s	45.58s	+62.0% GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is 62.0% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.40 / $4.40	$2.00 / $10.0
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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

GLM-5.2 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.
GPT-6.1 Sol (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.

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