Kimi K2.6 vs GLM-5.2

Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.6 and Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 compared on specs, pricing, and capabilities — as configured in AI Crucible ensembles.

Kimi K2.6 input tokens are 1.5x cheaper than GLM-5.2 ($1.14 vs $1.68 per 1M tokens).
Kimi K2.6 output tokens are 1.1x cheaper than GLM-5.2 ($4.80 vs $5.28 per 1M tokens).
GLM-5.2 offers the larger context window: 1M tokens vs 262K tokens for Kimi K2.6.
Kimi K2.6 accepts image inputs; GLM-5.2 is text-only in AI Crucible.

Specification	Kimi K2.6	GLM-5.2
Provider	Moonshot AI	Zhipu AI
API model ID	kimi-k2.6	zai-org/GLM-5.2
Description	Moonshot AI's latest flagship native multimodal agentic model with deep reasoning and 256K context.	Z.AI's most advanced GLM model with a 1M context window and configurable thinking effort — the top-ranked open-weight model for long-horizon agentic and coding tasks.
Context window	262K tokens	1M tokens
Max output tokens	8,192	131,072
Input cost ($/1M tokens)	$1.14	$1.68
Output cost ($/1M tokens)	$4.80	$5.28
Cache read cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.19	$0.31
Latency	medium	medium
Reasoning model	Yes	Yes
Vision (image input)	Yes	No
Tool use	Yes	Yes