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I feel like another comparison worth looking at is purely cost. Capability per dollar is something I care about: Opus API $5/$25 Sonnet API $5/$15
by faxmeyourcode 3mo ago
I feel like another comparison worth looking at is purely cost.
Capability per dollar is something I care about:
Opus API $5/$25
Sonnet API $5/$15
Haiku API $1/$5
GLM 5.2 API $1.4/$4.4
So you're really getting near opus level capability for the price of haiku.
- cmrdporcupine 3mo agoNot really, GLM uses more tokens to get work done.
- wiremine 3mo agoI ran a fairly large experiment last week, and the token usage wasn't bad at all. What softs of use cases are you seeing large token usage by GLM 5.2?
- w0m 3mo ago> are you seeing large token usage by GLM 5.2 the statement isn't "GLM 5.2 has large token usage", it's "GLM 5.2 has large token usage vs modern Opus". I haven't used it, but this wouldn't surprise me. I see ~30% lower token usage for better results with Opus 4.8 vs 4.6 (and i had great results with 4.6)
- cmrdporcupine 3mo agoI'm comparing with GPT5.5 on Codex and it's not even a competition. GLM takes way longer and eats a lot of tokens getting work done, it's easy to rack up a big bill on openrouter. I tried the $20 plan from ollama, too, and ate through half a month of budget in a few hours and blew my daily limit twice and still had to get codex to complete it -- which it did with only 10% of my monthly limit remaining. GLM is promising but it's pretty costly, all things considered.
- dymk 3mo agoBy how much? At least TFA provided numbers for one example, and they disagree with you (by a lot).
- throwawayffffas 3mo agoIn the article, they claim GLM used almost half the tokens 131,000, and the cost is about a quarter. For the cost to be the same GLM would have to use 4-5 times more tokens.