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GLM 5 vs GLM-5.2
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 64 42.4 | 58 20.0 |
| Family | GLM | GLM |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | — |
| Context Window | 203K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Input Price | $0.72/M tokens | $1.40/M tokens |
| Output Price | $2.30/M tokens | $4.40/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | — | Artificial Analysis page reported Input $1.40 per 1M tokens, cache hit $0.26 per 1M tokens, Output $4.40 per 1M tokens, AA Briefcase Elo 1265.54, and median output speed 102.29 tokens/second for GLM-5.2 (max) during this run. Verify provider terms before production use. |
| Capabilities | textcode | textreasoninglong-context |
| Max Output | 131K tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| API Identifier | z-ai/glm-5 | glm-5.2-max |
| Benchmarks | ||
| GPQA Diamond | 86https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5 | 89.4949artificial-analysis |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 | — | 51.0858347714416Artificial Analysis model page |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.3 | — | 34https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/glm-5-2 |
| SciCode | — | 51.1574artificial-analysis |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 77.9026artificial-analysis |
| View GLM 5 | View GLM-5.2 | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5Cheapest | $0.72 | $1.15 | $1.87 | — |
| GLM-5.2 | $1.40 | $2.20 | $3.60 | +93% |
Z.ai
GLM 5
GLM-5 is Z.ai's open-weight language model for agentic engineering, with 744B total and 40B active parameters. Its released checkpoint configuration supports 202,752 token positions; hosted service limits and prices depend on the provider.
Z.ai
GLM-5.2
GLM-5.2 (max) is a Z AI text model tracked by Artificial Analysis. The page reports a 1 million token context window, text input and text output, a 51.09 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and measured output speed around 102 tokens per second.
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