Z.ai

GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 is an open-weight model from Z.ai, released Jun 16, 2026. It ranks #32 of 351 on the LMArena text leaderboard with a rating of 1470. It costs $0.034 per million input tokens and $7 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.

LMArena text1470+6 in 30 days
Rank#32/351
95% interval1466–1474
Votes52.3K
Developer
Z.ai (Zhipu AI)
Released
Jun 16, 2026
Context window
1M
Price in / out, per 1M tokens
$0.034 / $7
Weights
Open · MIT
Inputs
Text
Reasoning
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Hugging Face downloads, 30 days
322.7K
Hugging Face likes
5.2K
GLM-5.2, LMArena text rating over time
14501458146514731480Jun 26Jul 26Aug 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestGLM-5.2 1470

The rating LMArena published at each update since Jun 16, 2026. Ratings move as votes come in and new models join.

Benchmarks

BenchmarkScore barAccuracyRankCost / test
SWE-benchCoding82.80%17 / 85$0.71
Vibe Code BenchCoding63.96%51 / 115$8.49
LiveCodeBenchCoding69.50%93 / 143$1.4 / $4.4
Legal Research BenchLaw31.25%48 / 85$0.89
MedCodeMedicine40.77%60 / 107$1.4 / $4.4
GPQA DiamondReasoning85.61%47 / 138$1.4 / $4.4
MMLU-ProReasoning86.71%39 / 138$1.4 / $4.4

Vals AI, as of Oct 24, 2026.

LMArena, by category

LeaderboardRatingRankVotes
TextLMArena147032 / 35152.3K
CodingLMArena148742 / 34614K
MathLMArena148529 / 3392.4K
Creative writingLMArena146224 / 34910.5K
Instruction followingLMArena146636 / 35118K
Hard promptsLMArena148138 / 35133.9K
Multi-turnLMArena146938 / 3498.3K
Long queriesLMArena148030 / 33023.8K
ExpertLMArena148742 / 3055.5K
Legal and governmentIndustries148623 / 3254.2K
Medicine and healthcareIndustries147532 / 3253.8K
Business and financeIndustries145143 / 3449.9K
ChineseLanguages152231 / 3283.8K
SpanishLanguages147817 / 2491.6K
GermanLanguages147129 / 261935
FrenchLanguages147836 / 2521.9K
JapaneseLanguages144934 / 236850
WebDevLMArena160431 / 12417.1K

LMArena, CC BY 4.0, as of Oct 22, 2026. Where a model is rated at several effort levels, its best is shown.

Compare GLM-5.2

Z.ai (Zhipu AI)

A Tsinghua spin-out that builds the GLM family of open bilingual models. Founded 2019, based in Beijing. z.ai

Questions

Who makes GLM-5.2?

GLM-5.2 is made by Z.ai (Zhipu AI), founded 2019 and based in Beijing.

How much does GLM-5.2 cost?

$0.034 per million input tokens and $7 per million output tokens, at its provider’s list price.

What is GLM-5.2’s context window?

1M tokens (1,048,576).

How does GLM-5.2 rank?

#32 of 351 on LMArena’s text leaderboard, rated 1470 (95% interval 1466–1474) from 52,283 votes, as of Oct 22, 2026.

Is GLM-5.2 open source?

GLM-5.2 has open weights under the MIT license, downloadable from Hugging Face (zai-org/GLM-5.2).

Sources

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