Gemini 3.6 Flash vs GLM-5.2: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Gemini 3.6 Flash is developed by Google, while GLM-5.2 comes from Zhipu AI. GLM-5.2 was released in June 2026, and Gemini 3.6 Flash followed a month later in July 2026. GLM-5.2 has a published size of about 753 billion parameters; Google has not disclosed the parameter count of Gemini 3.6 Flash.
We have 4 benchmark results for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 4 benchmark results for GLM-5.2, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
On price the two are close: Gemini 3.6 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens and $7.50 per million output tokens, GLM-5.2 $1.40 and $4.40. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts text and images as input, while GLM-5.2 accepts text.
| Characteristic | Gemini 3.6 Flash | GLM-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Zhipu AI | |
| Release Date | July 21, 2026 | June 16, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 753B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 66K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.50 | $1.40 |
| Output Price / 1M | $7.50 | $4.40 |
| Average Score | 78.5% | 94.3% |
Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Gemini 3.6 Flash — 0.8, GLM-5.2 — 0.9.
GLM-5.2 is 1.6x cheaper: input $1.40/1M vs $1.50/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Gemini 3.6 Flash is newer: released 7/21/2026 vs 6/16/2026.
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