GLM-5V-Turbo vs Mercury Edit 2 vs Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
Too close to call on our weighted score (Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview 50, GLM-5V-Turbo 49, Mercury Edit 2 35). The right pick depends on what you value most.
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5V-Turbo
49/100- ECI—
- Price$1.20 / $4.00
- Context200K
InceptionMercury Edit 2
35/100- ECI—
- Price$0.25 / $0.75
- Context32K
GoogleGemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview
50/100- ECI—
- Price$1.00 / $5.00
- Context131K
Too close to call
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within 1 points (Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview 50/100, GLM-5V-Turbo 49/100, Mercury Edit 2 35/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Mercury Edit 2 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.
- CapabilityNot enough dataNo independent benchmark covers every model here yet
- Lowest priceMercury Edit 2Mercury Edit 2 $0.375 · GLM-5V-Turbo $1.90 · Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview $2.00 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
- Longest contextGLM-5V-TurboGLM-5V-Turbo 200,000 · Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview 131,072 · Mercury Edit 2 32,000 tokens
- Widest inputsGLM-5V-Turbo and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 PreviewGLM-5V-Turbo: Text, Images, PDFs, Video · Mercury Edit 2: Text · Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview: Text, Images, Audio, Video
- Self-hostingNo open weightsAll three are available only through APIs
| Measure | Weight | GLM-5V-Turbo | Mercury Edit 2 | Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 50% | 37 | 70 | 36 |
| Inputs & features | 30% | 80 | 0 | 90 |
| Context window | 20% | 32 | 0 | 24 |
| Overall | 100% | 49/100 | 35/100 | 50/100 |
Left out because at least one model lacks the data: capability. The remaining weights were rescaled.
Every spec in one table
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| Specification | GLM-5V-TurboZ.ai (Zhipu) | Mercury Edit 2Inception | Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 PreviewGoogle |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | |||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | — | — | — |
| ECI rank | — | — | — |
| Price per million tokens | |||
| Input | $1.20 | $0.25 (best) | $1.00 |
| Output | $4.00 | $0.75 (best) | $5.00 |
| Cached input | $0.24 | $0.025 (best) | — |
| Blended (3:1) | $1.90 | $0.375 (best) | $2.00 |
| Long-context rate | Same rate | Same rate | Same rate |
| Price source | Official Z.AI API | Official Inception API | Median of 1 providers |
| Limits | |||
| Context window | 200,000 tokens (best) | 32,000 tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 131,072 tokens (best) | 8,192 tokens | 65,536 tokens |
| Inputs and features | |||
| Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Images | Yes | No | Yes |
| PDFs | Yes | No | No |
| Audio | No | No | Yes |
| Video | Yes | No | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | No | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | No | Yes |
| Availability | |||
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| API model ID | glm-5v-turbo | mercury-edit-2 | — |
| API providers | 14 (best) | 1 | 1 |
| Released | Apr 1, 2026 | Mar 30, 2026 | Apr 14, 2026 |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | — | Jan 2025 |
What would a month cost?
Enter your expected volume in millions of tokens. List prices only; caching and batch discounts would lower these.
- GLM-5V-Turbo$20.00
- Mercury Edit 2$4.00
- Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview$20.00
Which should you choose?
Which is better: GLM-5V-Turbo, Mercury Edit 2 or Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview?
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within 1 points (Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview 50/100, GLM-5V-Turbo 49/100, Mercury Edit 2 35/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Mercury Edit 2 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.
Which is cheaper, GLM-5V-Turbo, Mercury Edit 2 or Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview?
Mercury Edit 2 is cheaper at $0.25 input / $0.75 output per million tokens (official Inception API price). 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 $0.375 per million tokens for Mercury Edit 2 versus $1.90 for GLM-5V-Turbo (5.1× as much) and $2.00 for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview (5.3× as much).
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. GLM-5V-Turbo has not been scored yet, Mercury Edit 2 has not been scored yet and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview has not been scored yet.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for GLM-5V-Turbo, Mercury Edit 2 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. Note that Mercury Edit 2 does not support tool calling, which most coding agents need.
Which has the bigger context window?
GLM-5V-Turbo has the largest context window at 200,000 tokens, against 131,072 for Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview and 32,000 for Mercury Edit 2. Maximum output per response: GLM-5V-Turbo up to 131,072, Mercury Edit 2 up to 8,192, Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview up to 65,536 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
GLM-5V-Turbo accepts text, images, PDFs and video; Mercury Edit 2 accepts text; Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview accepts text, images, audio and video. GLM-5V-Turbo handles the widest range of inputs.
Are any of these open source?
No. GLM-5V-Turbo, Mercury Edit 2 and Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview are proprietary and only available through APIs and apps.
Which is newer?
Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview is the newest, released Apr 14, 2026. GLM-5V-Turbo came out Apr 1, 2026; Mercury Edit 2 came out Mar 30, 2026. Knowledge cutoff: Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 Preview Jan 2025.
How do you decide the winner?
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.
