Kimi K3 (max) vs GLM 5.2 (medium)

Recommended model GLM 5.2 (medium)

Its score stays close to the best score here (7.8 vs 7.9), while costing about 12.6x less than Kimi K3 (max).

Detailed comparison

Metric	Kimi K3 Kimi K3 max Release: 2026-07-16	GLM 5.2 GLM 5.2 medium Release: 2026-06-17

Prompt: Create a detailed SVG illustration of a hamster playing table tennis.

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medium

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Anti-AI Tricks	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		10.24s	1,638	496	2,629
GLM 5.2	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		5.89s	639	497	2,634

Coding	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		325.79s	8,061	460	84,012
GLM 5.2	8.2	7.2	88.9%	1		40.96s	7,317	1,475	17,123

Combined	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	6.5	10.0	50.0%	0		223.03s	12,792	399	20,460
GLM 5.2	5.0	5.0	50.0%	0		51.96s	12,696	458	4,531

Data parsing and extraction	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	7.3	5.8	83.3%	1		16.72s	7,839	354	2,606
GLM 5.2	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		13.44s	7,149	348	2,345

Domain specific	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	5.3	7.2	44.4%	1		683.62s	838	57	106,892
GLM 5.2	4.1	4.4	44.5%	2		45.47s	551	8,188	11,606

General Intelligence	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		14.91s	732	191	871
GLM 5.2	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		17.39s	498	54	1,842

Instructions following	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		7.66s	1,179	147	1,119
GLM 5.2	9.9	10.0	100.0%	0		7.90s	678	94	1,518

Puzzle Solving	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		7.36s	1,416	495	1,368
GLM 5.2	8.2	7.2	88.9%	1		13.13s	672	536	4,822

Tool Calling	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		0ms	0	0	0
GLM 5.2	10.0	10.0	100.0%	0		20.41s	6,861	230	550

Trivia	Score	Consistency	Attempt pass rate	Flaky tests	Tests Correct	Response Time (avg)	Input Tokens	Output Tokens	Reasoning Tokens
Kimi K3	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		19.67s	465	288	1,284
GLM 5.2	3.0	10.0	0.0%	0		34.25s	138	381	2,529

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