vs
1:13
overall capability wins (0 ties across 14 scored). GLM-5.2 leads overall.
- Reasoning1:5
- Coding0:4
- Arena0:1
- Tool use0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed1:1
- Specs0:2
Verdict
GLM-5.2 leads coding (widest gap: +157.1 on WebDev Elo); GLM-5.2 ranks higher on LMArena (+30 Elo); GLM-5.2 offers ~1.6x larger context (200K vs 128K).
- GLM-5.2 leads coding (widest gap: +157.1 on WebDev Elo)
- GLM-5.2 ranks higher on LMArena (+30 Elo)
- GLM-5.2 offers ~1.6x larger context (200K vs 128K)
- GLM-5.2 allows ~2.0x more max output (33K vs 16K)
- GLM-4.7 is ~6.1x cheaper on a blended token basis than GLM-5.2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- GLM-4.7
- $0.40
- GLM-5.2
- $2.50
GLM-4.7 is about 6.3x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Zhipu AI
Zhipu AI
Family
GLM
GLM
License
MIT
MIT
Open weights
Yes
Yes
Release
Dec 1, 2025
Jun 1, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Zhipu / Z.ai
Zhipu / Z.ai
Modalities
text → text
text, image → text
Specs
Context window
128K
200K
Max output
16K
33K
Parameters
—
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.20
$1.40
Output $/1M
$0.80
$4.40
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.35
$2.15
Speed
tok/s
90
168
TTFT (s)
0.3
0.35
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
85.9
89.5
Humanity's Last Exam
27.4
41.1
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
29.3
24.3
AA-LCR v1.1
71.0
78.3
CritPt
1.7
20.9
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
67.9
73.3
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
45.3
77.9
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
4.6
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
45.1
51.2
CursorBench
—
55.0
SWE-Rebench
45.5
57.0
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
44.0
WebDev Arena
1,435
1,592
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,442
1,472
| Metric | GLM-4.7 | GLM-5.2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Zhipu AI | Zhipu AI | — |
| Family | GLM | GLM | — |
| License | MIT | MIT | — |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes | — |
| Release | Dec 1, 2025 | Jun 1, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Zhipu / Z.ai | Zhipu / Z.ai | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 200K | B +72K |
| Max output | 16K | 33K | B +16K |
| Parameters | — | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.20 | $1.40 | A +$1.20 |
| Output $/1M | $0.80 | $4.40 | A +$3.60 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.35 | $2.15 | A +$1.80 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 90 | 168 | B +78 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.3 | 0.35 | A +0.05 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 85.9 | 89.5 | B +3.6 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 27.4 | 41.1 | B +13.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 29.3 | 24.3 | A +5.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 71.0 | 78.3 | B +7.3 pts |
| CritPt | 1.7 | 20.9 | B +19.2 pts |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 67.9 | 73.3 | B +5.4 pts |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 45.3 | 77.9 | B +32.6 pts |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | 4.6 | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 45.1 | 51.2 | B +6.1 pts |
| CursorBench | — | 55.0 | — |
| SWE-Rebench | 45.5 | 57.0 | B +11.5 pts |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 44.0 | — |
| WebDev Arena | 1,435 | 1,592 | B +157 Elo |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,442 | 1,472 | B +30 Elo |
GLM-4.7
- Context
- 128K / 16K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $0.20 / $0.80
- Speed
- 90 tok/s · 0.3s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- MIT
Prior GLM-4.x open checkpoint still useful for cost-sensitive bilingual apps.
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.
Benchmark charts
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