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GPT-5.2-Codex vs Qwen3.6 Plus vs GLM 5

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Winner summary

GPT-5.2-Codex wins 6 of 8 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · language · math.

Category leads
coding·Qwen3.6 Plusreasoning·GPT-5.2-Codexlanguage·GPT-5.2-Codexmath·GPT-5.2-Codexknowledge·GPT-5.2-Codex
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5.2-Codex
#15 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Qwen3.6 Plus
#14 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GLM 5
#55 by perf·#27 by attention
UNDERRATED
Best value
1.4x better value than GLM 5
GPT-5.2-Codex
9.0 pts/$
$7.88/M
Qwen3.6 Plus
62.3 pts/$
$1.14/M
GLM 5
45.7 pts/$
$1.26/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Alibaba Qwen logo
Alibaba (Qwen)
$293.0B·Tier 1
Low risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
GPT-5.2-CodexQwen3.6 PlusGLM 5
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
GPT-5.2-Codex
51.7
Qwen3.6 Plus
55.0
GLM 5
55.0
LiveBench · Coding
GPT-5.2-Codex leads by +5.4
GPT-5.2-Codex
83.6
Qwen3.6 Plus
78.2
GLM 5
73.6
LiveBench · Data Analysis
GPT-5.2-Codex leads by +8.3
GPT-5.2-Codex
78.2
Qwen3.6 Plus
69.9
GLM 5
67.9
LiveBench · If
GPT-5.2-Codex leads by +8.1
GPT-5.2-Codex
66.5
Qwen3.6 Plus
58.3
GLM 5
55.3
LiveBench · Language
GLM 5 leads by +2.5
GPT-5.2-Codex
73.7
Qwen3.6 Plus
75.0
GLM 5
77.5
LiveBench · Mathematics
GPT-5.2-Codex leads by +5.0
GPT-5.2-Codex
88.8
Qwen3.6 Plus
83.7
GLM 5
83.5
LiveBench · Overall
GPT-5.2-Codex leads by +3.5
GPT-5.2-Codex
74.3
Qwen3.6 Plus
70.8
GLM 5
68.8
LiveBench · Reasoning
GPT-5.2-Codex leads by +1.9
GPT-5.2-Codex
77.7
Qwen3.6 Plus
75.8
GLM 5
69.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5.2-CodexQwen3.6 PlusGLM 5
LiveBench · Agentic Coding
51.755.055.0
LiveBench · Coding
83.678.273.6
LiveBench · Data Analysis
78.269.967.9
LiveBench · If
66.558.355.3
LiveBench · Language
73.775.077.5
LiveBench · Mathematics
88.883.783.5
LiveBench · Overall
74.370.868.8
LiveBench · Reasoning
77.775.869.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2-Codex$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13
Alibaba Qwen logoQwen3.6 Plus$0.33$1.951.0M tokens (~500 books)$7.31
z-ai logoGLM 5$0.60$1.92203K tokens (~101 books)$9.30