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GLM-5.2

zhipuai·zhipuai/glm-5.2·Deprecated·Open weights·glm series
Open flagship GLM for long-horizon coding agents and million-token context work

GLM-5.2 by zhipuai is offered by 103 providers on this page. Public prices are shown for 94 of them. Its official list price is $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens. The lowest paid channel is CrofAI at $0.30 / $1.05 per 1M, about 7.7× below the list price. That channel is a third-party gateway, so confirm its availability and rate limits before depending on it. It also has 4 free ($0) channels and 4 covered by a paid subscription; free tiers usually carry rate limits, and subscription-covered access bills $0 per token only after the subscription fee.

Artificial Analysis rates it 33.7 on the Intelligence Index, with 68.8 for coding and 38.4 for agentic tasks. Against its lowest blended price of $0.487 per 1M, that is roughly 69 index points per dollar, which is the value ratio the leaderboards rank on. Median output speed is 89 tokens per second, with 3.25s to the first token. Running one task of the Artificial Analysis suite costs about $1.4726, which reflects how many tokens its reasoning consumes rather than the unit price alone.

The context window is 1,000,000 tokens at the reference host, but hosts report different limits, from 96,000 to 1,049,000, so the usable window depends on the provider you pick. It supports reasoning, tool use, and structured output. Accepted input modalities are Text and Image. The weights are open, so it can also be self-hosted or served through a gateway of your choice. Providers report the capability flags inconsistently, so verify a specific feature against the host you plan to use.

Specs & pricing

Input / output per 1M tokens
Official price·Z.AI
$1.40 / $4.40
Blended $2.15 · Cache read $0.26
Lowest paid·CrofAIGateway
$0.30 / $1.05
Blended $0.49 · 7.7× spread
4 more $0 channels
Context
1,000,000
Output limit
131,072
Knowledge cutoff
—
Released / updated
2026-06-13 / 2026-06-13
Capabilities
✓ Reasoning✓ Tool use✓ Structured output✓ TemperatureAttachments
⚠ Providers report capability flags inconsistently
Modalities
TextImage
Weights
Hugging Face

Quality & performanceArtificial Analysis · Intelligence Index v4.3 · rep. tier Max

Intelligence33.7
Value69
Coding68.8
Agentic38.4
Output speed89 tok/s
TTFT3.25 s
Cost per task$1.47
Value formulaIQ 33.7 ÷ min blended $0.487 = 69
Reasoning tier → intelligence / speed (higher tier = stronger but slower)
Non-reasoningIQ 22.4 · 150 tok/s
MaxIQ 33.7 · 89 tok/s

Quality is independently evaluated by Artificial Analysis. Speed/latency are model-level medians.

Available at 103 providers94 with public prices · 4 free · 4 subscription-covered

ProviderTierInputOutputCache readCache writeContextOutput limitStatus
SenseNova (China)GatewayFree$0—1,000,000131,072
Alibaba Token PlanGatewaySubscription$0$01,000,000131,072
Alibaba Token Plan (China)GatewaySubscription$0$01,000,000131,072
UnoRouter
glm-5.2:free
GatewayFree——1,000,000131,072
Z.AI Coding PlanGatewaySubscription$0$01,000,000131,072
SCNet Token Plan
GLM-5.2
GatewaySubscription$0—1,000,000131,072
NvidiaCloudFree——1,000,000131,072deprecated
Kenari
glm-5-2
GatewayFree——1,000,000131,072
CrofAIGateway$0.30$1.05$0.05—1,000,000131,072
NanoGPTGateway$0.42$1.32$0.078—1,048,576 ⚠131,072
Z.AIOfficialFirst-party$1.40$4.40$0.26$01,000,000131,072

Sorted by blended price (input×0.75 + output×0.25) asc. The official channel always shows regardless of rank. Whether a gateway's low price is actually usable can't be verified.

Reasoning control

effort = noneeffort = higheffort = maxToggle (on / off)effort = xhigheffort = loweffort = mediumeffort = minimalbudget_tokens

Interleaved thinking (reasoning between tool calls) is declared by 65 of 103 providers.

13 / 103 providers expose no reasoning control (reasoning_options: []).

Your usage cost

1CrofAI$82.50
2NanoGPT$108.96
3SCX.ai$146.52
4engy$151.00
5Ambient$166.00
6Inceptron$188.70
39Z.AI · Official$363.20

8 more channels offer $0 (SenseNova (China), Alibaba Token Plan, Alibaba Token Plan (China) etc.); free tiers usually have rate limits and no SLA, excluded from ranking.

Switch to CrofAI to save $280.70/mo (77%)
Note: this is a gateway; verify availability and rate limits yourself.

Price historyone sample accumulated per data sync

Input listOutput listMin blended
$4.40$02026-08-052026-08-182026-08-05 · Input list $1.402026-08-06 · Input list $1.402026-08-07 · Input list $1.402026-08-08 · Input list $1.402026-08-09 · Input list $1.402026-08-10 · Input list $1.402026-08-11 · Input list $1.402026-08-12 · Input list $1.402026-08-13 · Input list $1.402026-08-18 · Input list $1.402026-08-05 · Output list $4.402026-08-06 · Output list $4.402026-08-07 · Output list $4.402026-08-08 · Output list $4.402026-08-09 · Output list $4.402026-08-10 · Output list $4.402026-08-11 · Output list $4.402026-08-12 · Output list $4.402026-08-13 · Output list $4.402026-08-18 · Output list $4.402026-08-05 · Min blended $0.652026-08-06 · Min blended $0.652026-08-07 · Min blended $0.652026-08-08 · Min blended $0.652026-08-09 · Min blended $0.152026-08-10 · Min blended $0.652026-08-11 · Min blended $0.652026-08-12 · Min blended $0.652026-08-13 · Min blended $0.652026-08-18 · Min blended $0.49

Benchmark19 items

NameConditionsScoreMetricSource
SWE-Bench Pro—62.1resolve rateSource ↗
Terminal-Benchharness: Claude Code · v2.182.7success rateSource ↗
FrontierSWE—74.4dominanceSource ↗
Humanity's Last Examdataset: text-only subset40.5accuracySource ↗
Humanity's Last Examvariant: with tools · dataset: text-only subset54.7accuracySource ↗
CritPt—20.9accuracySource ↗
AIMEv202699.2accuracySource ↗
HMMTvNovember 202594.4accuracySource ↗
HMMTvFebruary 202692.5accuracySource ↗
IMOAnswerBench—91accuracySource ↗
GPQA Diamond—91.2accuracySource ↗
NL2Repo—48.9resolve rateSource ↗
DeepSWE—46.2resolve rateSource ↗
Program Bench—63.7scoreSource ↗
Terminal-Benchharness: Terminus 2 · v2.181success rateSource ↗
PostTrainBench—34.3scoreSource ↗
SWE Marathon—13resolve rateSource ↗
MCP Atlasdataset: public subset76.8scoreSource ↗
Tool-Decathlon—48.2scoreSource ↗

The same benchmark scores very differently across harness / dataset, so the qualifying conditions must be shown together.

Artificial Analysis evaluations9 items

GPQA Diamond89.5%
Humanity's Last Exam41.1%
SciCode51.2%
Terminal-Bench Hard50.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.177.9%
τ²-Bench Telecom99.1%
τ³-Bench Banking34.6%
AA-LCR78.3%
IFBench73.3%

Individual evaluations run by Artificial Analysis, on the same reasoning tier as the intelligence score above. Each benchmark has its own task set and harness, so rows are not comparable with one another. The Intelligence Index above draws on a different, newer set of evaluations.

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Data partly from models.dev (MIT) · Z.AI official docs ↗