Model comparison
GLM-5.2 vs Pixtral 12B
GLM-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#44); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.40 / $4.40 for GLM-5.2.
- GLM-5.2 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.
Side by side
| GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai (Zhipu) | Mistral AI |
| Noometry Index | 51.1 | 31.3 |
| Released | 2026-06-13 | 2024-09-01 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Max output | 131K | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.40 | $0.15 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4.40 | $0.15 |
| Results tracked | 51 | 2 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 51.3 (#41), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 78.7% | — |
| DeepSWE | 43.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 24.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1603 | — |
| SciCode | 50.5% | — |
| WeirdML | 70.1% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1485 | — |
| ALE-Bench | 1,047 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 32.4 (#63), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 45.2% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 37.1% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 31.7% | — |
| GBAEval | 0% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 8,314 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 42.3 (#52), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 22.8% | — |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 62.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 74.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 77% | — |
| CritPt | 20.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 21% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 9.5% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1480 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 19% | — |
| DTBench | 93.6% | — |
| LMCA | 45.8% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 55.6% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 151.78 | — |
Math Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 55.7 (#43), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 59.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 67.6% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 86.4% | — |
| ProofBench | 35% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1482 | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#40), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91.9% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1486 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
GLM-5.2: —, Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1009 |
| GeoBench | — | 37% |
Multilingual Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 55.8 (#26), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1519 | — |
| LMArena French | 1479 | — |
| LMArena German | 1468 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1451 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1477 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 76.9 (#34), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1465 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1479 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
GLM-5.2: 70.4 (#21), Pixtral 12B: —
| Benchmark | GLM-5.2 | Pixtral 12B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1470 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1462 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1757 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1222 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1469 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is GLM-5.2 better than Pixtral 12B?
GLM-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#44); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, GLM-5.2 or Pixtral 12B?
Pixtral 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; GLM-5.2 lists at $1.40 and $4.40.
Which has the bigger context window?
GLM-5.2 does, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks do GLM-5.2 and Pixtral 12B share?
0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.2 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.