The Model Gap

Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

GLM-5.2

Released
2026-06-16
License
open-weights
Context window
1,000K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Not disclosed

Pricing

$1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M tokens official pricing

In plain English: MIT-licensed weights on Hugging Face and ModelScope. Cached-input price is $0.26/1M, far below the $1.40 shown. GLM-5.3 (2026-08-14) is positioned by Z.ai as the successor in this line, but is subscription-only with 'API coming soon' — GLM-5.2 remains the purchasable API model, so we keep it current until GLM-5.3 is actually available via API.

Benchmark scores

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🧠 Reasoning(no tools)
🧠 Reasoning(with tools)
🔬 Expert science Q&A
💻 Terminal ops
🛠️ Long-horizon coding
🧰 Multi-tool chores
💼 Professional work
🐛 Bug fixing
⌨️ Contest coding

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