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GLM 5.2 input price rises, output price falls on OpenRouter
Z.ai has repriced GLM 5.2 on OpenRouter. Input moved from $0.0744 to $0.171 per 1M tokens, while output dropped from $12 to $7.2 per 1M tokens. The cost balance has shifted towards input, with generation now substantially cheaper.
Pricing7 Oct 2026Z.ai
What it means for a SaaS brand
If you run GLM 5.2 for answer-engine monitoring or content generation, long-prompt workloads get more expensive while high-output jobs get cheaper, so recheck your run costs this week. Large retrieval-heavy prompts are now the thing to trim.
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