vs
4:12
overall capability wins (0 ties across 16 scored). GLM-5.2 leads overall.
- Reasoning2:4
- Coding0:5
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:2
- Composite indices0:2
- Pricing3:0
- Speed0:2
- Specs2:0
Verdict
GLM-5.2 leads coding (widest gap: +146.1 on WebDev Elo); GLM-5.2 ranks higher on LMArena (+15 Elo); DeepSeek V4 Pro offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K).
- GLM-5.2 leads coding (widest gap: +146.1 on WebDev Elo)
- GLM-5.2 ranks higher on LMArena (+15 Elo)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro offers ~5.0x larger context (1M vs 200K)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro allows ~11.7x more max output (384K vs 33K)
- DeepSeek V4 Pro is ~4.0x cheaper on a blended token basis than GLM-5.2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- DeepSeek V4 Pro
- $0.65
- GLM-5.2
- $2.50
DeepSeek V4 Pro is about 3.8x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
DeepSeek
Zhipu AI
Family
DeepSeek
GLM
License
MIT
MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Apr 24, 2026
Jun 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
DeepSeek
Zhipu / Z.ai
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
1M
200K
Max output
384K
33K
Parameters
1.6T (49B act.)
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.43
$1.40
Output $/1M
$0.87
$4.40
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.54
$2.15
Speed
tok/s
85
168
TTFT (s)
0.4
0.35
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
88.8
89.5
Humanity's Last Exam
37.5
41.1
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
43.0
24.3
AA-LCR v1.1
74.7
78.3
CritPt
12.9
20.9
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
76.5
73.3
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
64.0
77.9
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
4.6
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
50.8
51.2
CursorBench
—
55.0
SWE-Rebench
41.4
57.0
NL2Repo-Bench
38.5
—
DeepSWE
12.8
44.0
WebDev Arena
1,446
1,592
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,457
1,472
| Metric | DeepSeek V4 Pro | GLM-5.2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | DeepSeek | Zhipu AI | — |
| Family | DeepSeek | GLM | — |
| License | MIT | MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Apr 24, 2026 | Jun 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | DeepSeek | Zhipu / Z.ai | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 1M | 200K | A +800K |
| Max output | 384K | 33K | A +351K |
| Parameters | 1.6T (49B act.) | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.43 | $1.40 | A +$0.96 |
| Output $/1M | $0.87 | $4.40 | A +$3.53 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.54 | $2.15 | A +$1.61 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 85 | 168 | B +83 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.4 | 0.35 | B +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 88.8 | 89.5 | B +0.7 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 37.5 | 41.1 | B +3.6 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 43.0 | 24.3 | A +18.7 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 74.7 | 78.3 | B +3.6 pts |
| CritPt | 12.9 | 20.9 | B +8.0 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 76.5 | 73.3 | A +3.2 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 64.0 | 77.9 | B +13.9 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | 4.6 | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 50.8 | 51.2 | B +0.4 pts |
| CursorBench | — | 55.0 | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 41.4 | 57.0 | B +15.6 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | 38.5 | — | — |
| DeepSWE | 12.8 | 44.0 | B +31.2 pts |
| WebDev Arena | 1,446 | 1,592 | B +146 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,457 | 1,472 | B +15 Elo |
DeepSeek V4 Pro
- Context
- 1M / 384K out
- Parameters
- 1.6T (49B act.)
- Price
- $0.43 / $0.87
- Speed
- 85 tok/s · 0.4s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MIT
Open-weight frontier MoE - exceptional quality-per-dollar with MIT license and 1M context. Scores shown are the original preview; the GA 0813 release improves agentic coding substantially.
GLM-5.2
- Context
- 200K / 33K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.40 / $4.40
- Speed
- 168 tok/s · 0.35s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image → text
- License
- MIT
Open MIT GLM-5.2 - competitive open Arena Elo and strong Chinese/English bilingual performance.
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