GLM-5.2 vs Qwen3.6-27B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GLM-5.2 is developed by Zhipu AI, while Qwen3.6-27B comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.6-27B was released in April 2026, and GLM-5.2 followed 2 months later in June 2026. GLM-5.2 is the larger model at roughly 753 billion parameters, against 28 billion for Qwen3.6-27B.
The two models share 8 published benchmarks. GLM-5.2 leads on 8 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam, where GLM-5.2 scores 54.7% against 24.0%; NL2Repo, where GLM-5.2 scores 48.9% against 36.2%. Averaged across everything we track, GLM-5.2 sits at 60.9% and Qwen3.6-27B at 77.5%.
Qwen3.6-27B is the cheaper API at $0.60 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens, roughly 2 times cheaper than GLM-5.2 at $1.40 and $4.40. GLM-5.2 takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-27B. GLM-5.2 accepts text as input, while Qwen3.6-27B accepts text and images.
| Characteristic | GLM-5.2 | Qwen3.6-27B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Zhipu AI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | June 16, 2026 | April 21, 2026 |
| Parameters | 753B | 28B |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Context (output) | 131K | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.40 | $0.60 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.40 | $3.60 |
| Average Score | 60.9% | 77.5% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 54.7% | 24.0% |
| NL2Repo | 48.9% | 36.2% |
| IMO-AnswerBench | 91.0% | 80.8% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 62.1% | 53.5% |
| HMMT Feb 26 | 92.5% | 84.3% |
| AIME 2026 | 99.0% | 94.1% |
| GPQA | 91.0% | 87.8% |
| HMMT 2025 | 94.0% | 93.8% |
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Verdict
GLM-5.2 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GLM-5.2 — 0.6, Qwen3.6-27B — 0.8.
Qwen3.6-27B is 1.4x cheaper: input $0.60/1M vs $1.40/1M tokens.
GLM-5.2 supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
GLM-5.2 is newer: released 6/16/2026 vs 4/21/2026.
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