Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Analysis Summary
Z.ai's GLM 5.2 combines frontier-level reasoning with exceptional coding and agentic benchmark results, backed by a 1M token context window and strong instruction-following. Its performance profile competes directly with the leading flagship models on the market.
For businesses, this makes it a strong candidate for autonomous coding agents, long-document analysis, and complex multi-step automation where both reasoning depth and reliability matter. Tool use and function calling round out its agentic capability.
Pricing is competitive for the performance on offer, making it a cost-effective choice for teams running demanding coding or agentic workloads without paying premium flagship rates.
Assessed July 29, 2026
Editorial notes
GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-level reasoning with exceptional coding and agentic performance, a 1M token context, and aggressive pricing.
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DFO Verdict
GLM 5.2 delivers frontier-level reasoning with exceptional coding and agentic performance, a 1M token context, and aggressive pricing.
Benchmark scores
Magenta = intelligence · Ink = technical/agentic · Cyan = content & long-context · Grey = community benchmarks. Data: Artificial Analysis, Hugging Face.
51.1 Intelligence Index·68.8 Coding Index·74.9 Agentic Index
How Z.ai: GLM 5.2 compares
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ranks #9 of 395 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #13 of 160 for coding, #4 of 302 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 96% of the models we list. At $0.69 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 32% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in value corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.69 | $0.000692 |
| Output | $2.17 | $0.002174 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Talk to our teamAbout Z.ai: GLM 5.2
GLM 5.2 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and is suited for long-horizon agent workflows, project-level software engineering,..
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Frequently asked questions about Z.ai: GLM 5.2
How much does Z.ai: GLM 5.2 cost?
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 costs $0.69 per million input tokens and $2.17 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Z.ai: GLM 5.2?
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).
Is Z.ai: GLM 5.2 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ranks #13 of 160 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Z.ai: GLM 5.2 do?
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 supports tool use and function calling.
Who created Z.ai: GLM 5.2?
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is developed by Z.ai and was released on June 16, 2026.
