ModelZ.ai · Joined Jun 13, 2026 · GLM

GLM-5.2

Model at Z.ai

37th of 418 on Arena text
Tied for most expensive of 3 similar models by price

GLM-5.2 does not have a researched profile yet. Everything here comes from its recorded changes and public listings, each linked to its source.

The basics

As of Nov 1

Status: Available
Price: $1.40 in, $4.40 outPer 1M tokens, since Jun 13
Context: 1M tokens
Open weights: Yes
Speed: 37.1 tokens a second30-day median, first token in 0.96s

Updates

Sep 29

Retiring

Z.ai GLM 5.2 on Mistral retires October 31

Mistral deprecated zai-glm-5-2 on its platform and will retire it on October 31, 2026, with zai-glm-5-3 as the replacement at the same price.

Before

zai-glm-5-2

After

zai-glm-5-3

Action needed:: Switch to zai-glm-5-3 before October 31, 2026.

Full changelog, by month

Role

Open-weight model at Z.ai

GLM-5.3Aug 2026 to now · 3 months
GLM-5.2
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 · 2 months

Similar models

GLM-5.3-Flash

$0.15 in, $0.50 out

GLM-5.3

$1.40 in, $4.40 out

Similar models for now. Real viewing data comes after launch.

Cost vs peers

Tied for most expensive of 3 similar models by output price.

GLM-5.3-Flash$0.50 out · $0.15 in
GLM-5.2$4.40 out · $1.40 in
GLM-5.3$4.40 out · $1.40 in

Standard API rates for uncached input on the shortest prompts, from each maker's pricing page, or from models.dev for models not researched here yet.

Where it works

Place	Type	Price per 1M tokens, in / out	Uptime
Morph	API host	$0.09 / $1.40	100%
DeepInfra	API host	$0.45 / $1.44	100%
StreamLake	API host	$0.56 / $1.75	100%
Baidu	API host	$0.62 / $1.94	99.91%
Ambient	API host	$0.60 / $2	93.07%
Novita	API host	$0.65 / $2.04	100%
DigitalOcean	API host	$0.70 / $2.20	99.74%
SiliconFlow	API host	$0.70 / $2.20	100%

Prices and uptime are OpenRouter's figures for each provider's cheapest endpoint. Uptime covers the last 24 hours.

Benchmarks

Higher is better. Green is GLM-5.2. Dark marks are similar models.

Independent

What people say

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Writing habits

Creative writing · EQ-Bench, among 51 models tracked here

Slop score

13.1

Overused AI words and phrases. Less slop than 56% of tracked models.

Repetition

3.9

Repeated words and ideas. Less repetition than 44% of tracked models.

Story length

6,104

Average characters per story. Longer than 40% of tracked models.