Cydonia 24B V4.1 vs GLM 5.2

Cydonia 24B V4.1 at $0.345 in and $0.575 out and GLM 5.2 at $0.290 in and $0.911 out — per million tokens, from the same wallet.

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Thedrummer

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.345 in · $0.575 out / 1M

131K context · released September 2025

Full page →

GLM 5.2

Z.ai

0.22¢

for a client proposal

$0.290 in · $0.911 out / 1M

1.02M context · released 2 months ago

Full page →

Asking all both at once — identical prompt, identical context — costs about 0.44¢ for a typical client proposal.

At a glance

Cheapest input: GLM 5.2 at $0.290 per million tokens.
Cheapest output: Cydonia 24B V4.1 at $0.575 per million tokens.
Largest context: GLM 5.2 at 1.02M tokens — about 1,500 pages.

Cost per task

Estimated totals at the rates above. Solid bar is input, lighter bar is output.

Quick code fix

2K in · 500 out

Cydonia 24B V4.1

0.1¢

GLM 5.2

0.1¢

Draft a client proposal from notes

5K in · 800 out

Cydonia 24B V4.1

0.22¢

GLM 5.2

0.22¢

Context-heavy session (Alyph workspace)

155K in · 4K out

Cydonia 24B V4.1

needs 155K ctx

GLM 5.2

4.9¢

Analyze a 50-page legal contract

35K in · 1K out

Cydonia 24B V4.1

1.3¢

GLM 5.2

1.1¢

Large architecture refactor

250K in · 3K out

Cydonia 24B V4.1

needs 250K ctx

GLM 5.2

$0.08

Solid part of each bar is input tokens, the lighter part is output. Models that don’t fit a task are marked instead of priced.

Cost vs Token Amount

Drag the slider to adjust the split between input and output workload.

80% Input20% Output

Cydonia 24B V4.1

GLM 5.2

Adjust the ratio slider to change how output tokens influence the final price for equivalent workloads.

Pricing

Cydonia 24B V4.1

GLM 5.2

Input / 1M tokens

$0.345

$0.290

Output / 1M tokens

$0.575

$0.911

Cached input / 1M

$0.172

$0.054

Specs

Cydonia 24B V4.1

GLM 5.2

Provider

Thedrummer

Z.ai

Released

September 2025

2 months ago

Context window

131K

1.02M

Max output

131K

128K

Input

Text

Output

Text

Reasoning

Answers directly

Shows its thinking

Knowledge cutoff

2024-04-30

—

Try it with real numbers

2K tokens in · 500 tokens out.

Cydonia 24B V4.1

Thedrummer

0.1¢

for this task

71% input · 29% output

Full pricing →

GLM 5.2

Z.ai

0.1¢

for this task

56% input · 44% output

Full pricing →

All 2, same prompt and context: 0.2¢. That is the entire cost of the comparison.

Your $5 welcome credit covers about 2,484 of these.

Which should you pick?

For long documents, GLM 5.2 has the largest context window here — 1.02M tokens.

On price, GLM 5.2 is the cheapest of the two on a typical task, at about 0.22¢.

If you want to watch the model think, GLM 5.2 shows reasoning; the other answers directly.

Or don’t pick. Send the identical prompt to all both, read the answers side by side, and keep the winner. How to run a fair bake-off →

Cydonia 24B V4.1 pricing →GLM 5.2 pricing →Add Lyria 3 Clip Preview Add Grok 4.20

Questions, answered

Which is cheaper, Cydonia 24B V4.1 or GLM 5.2?

On a typical client proposal (5K tokens in, 800 out): GLM 5.2 at 0.22¢; Cydonia 24B V4.1 at 0.22¢. Long prompts can change the order when long-context rates apply.

Which has the largest context window?

GLM 5.2 — 1.02M tokens, about 1,500 pages.

Can I run Cydonia 24B V4.1 and GLM 5.2 side by side on Alyph?

Yes — that is what Alyph is built for: the identical prompt with identical context to all 2, answers rendered side by side, billed from one wallet. This exact combination costs about 0.44¢ for a typical task.

Ask both at once

Identical prompt, identical context, answers side by side — about 0.44¢ for a typical client proposal. Free to start, with $5 of credit.