GLM-5.2 (Max) vs Qwen3.7 Max

Which is better for the money: GLM-5.2 (Max) by Z AI or Qwen3.7 Max by Alibaba? 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

AlibabaQwen3.7 MaxOff the frontier

Intelligence: 29.50
Total cost: $2277

Verdict

Pick GLM-5.2 (Max)

Qwen3.7 Max vs GLM-5.2 (Max): 12.5% less intelligence, 8.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 43.4% faster end-to-end.

Metric	GLM-5.2 (Max)	Qwen3.7 Max	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	33.7	29.5	−12.5% Qwen3.7 Max is 12.5% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$2,097.29	$2,277.12	+8.6% Qwen3.7 Max is 8.6% more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	29.25s	16.57s	−43.4% Qwen3.7 Max is 43.4% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.40 / $4.40	$2.50 / $7.50
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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.
Qwen3.7 Max is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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