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GLM 5.2 input pricing rises from $0.0883 to $0.171 per 1M tokens
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 input price has roughly doubled, moving from $0.0883 to $0.171 per 1M tokens on OpenRouter. Output pricing is unchanged at $12 per 1M tokens. The change affects input-heavy workloads only.
Pricing8 Oct 2026Z.ai
What it means for a SaaS brand
If you run GLM 5.2 for retrieval-heavy jobs such as content audits or crawling your own docs to test AI answer coverage, your input costs have doubled while output costs held steady. Recheck the economics of any long-context prompt pipelines, trimming retrieved context now saves more than it did last week.
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