Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview vs QwQ 32B vs GLM-5V-Turbo

It is close. Our weighted score puts them within 1 points (Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview 50/100, GLM-5V-Turbo 49/100, QwQ 32B 43/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: QwQ 32B on price and GLM-5V-Turbo for long inputs. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.

QwQ 32B is cheaper at $0.66 input / $1.00 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). GLM-5V-Turbo costs $1.20 input / $4.00 output per million tokens (official Z.AI API price); Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview costs $1.00 input / $5.00 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.745 per million tokens for QwQ 32B versus $1.90 for GLM-5V-Turbo (2.6× as much) and $2.00 for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview (2.7× as much).

There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview has not been scored yet, QwQ 32B has an ECI of 137.6 and GLM-5V-Turbo has not been scored yet.

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview, QwQ 32B and GLM-5V-Turbo yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. All three support tool calling for agent workflows.

GLM-5V-Turbo has the largest context window at 200,000 tokens, against 131,072 for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview and 131,072 for QwQ 32B. Maximum output per response: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview up to 65,536, QwQ 32B up to 8,192, GLM-5V-Turbo up to 131,072 tokens.

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview accepts text, images, audio and video; QwQ 32B accepts text; GLM-5V-Turbo accepts text, images, PDFs and video. Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview handles the widest range of inputs.

QwQ 32B publishes its weights and can be self-hosted; Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview and GLM-5V-Turbo is proprietary.

Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview is the newest, released Apr 14, 2026. GLM-5V-Turbo came out Apr 1, 2026; QwQ 32B came out Mar 5, 2025. Knowledge cutoff: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview Jan 2025, QwQ 32B Apr 2024.

Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.