Developer tracks GLM-5.2 price drop to $1.20/M input tokens, saving 30% on LLM costs
A developer built a script to monitor LLM pricing every 3 hours and caught an unannounced price drop for GLM-5.2. The model now costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.10 per million output tokens, roughly 1/6 the cost of GPT-5.5, with coding benchmarks close to top-tier models. This saved the developer 30% on monthly bills.
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