GLM-5.2 vs Qwen3.5 27B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GLM-5.2 is developed by Zhipu AI, while Qwen3.5 27B comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.5 27B was released in March 2026, and GLM-5.2 followed 3 months later in June 2026. GLM-5.2 is the larger model at roughly 753 billion parameters, against 27 billion for Qwen3.5 27B.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. GLM-5.2 leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam, where GLM-5.2 scores 54.7% against 48.5%; GPQA, where GLM-5.2 scores 91.0% against 85.5%. Averaged across everything we track, GLM-5.2 sits at 60.9% and Qwen3.5 27B at 70.3%.
GLM-5.2 is available through an API at $1.40 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.5 27B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.5 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Zhipu AI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | June 16, 2026 | March 1, 2026 |
| Parameters | 753B | 27B |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 131K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.40 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.40 | — |
| Average Score | 60.9% | 70.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 54.7% | 48.5% |
| GPQA | 91.0% | 85.5% |
| HMMT 2025 | 94.0% | 92.0% |
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Verdict
GLM-5.2 leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GLM-5.2 — 0.6, Qwen3.5 27B — 0.7.
GLM-5.2 is newer: released 6/16/2026 vs 3/1/2026.
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