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GLM-5.2

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Verdict

GLM-5.2 is a solid mid-pack model: #64 of 406 by SIscope score. Strongest at chat quality, weaker at agents & tools. Mid-range on price. Weights are open, so you can run it yourself.

SIscope score
75
#64 of 406
Human-vote rank
#33
of 419 · score 1470
Price per 1M tokens, blended
$1.7
$0.006 in · $6.8 out
Context window
1M
1,048,576 tokens

Shape

Each spoke is a category, 0 at the centre, 100 at the edge.

CodingAgentsReasoningMathChatInstructions

Category scores

Percentiles: 90 means better than about 90% of tested models.

Coding86
Agents & tools55
Reasoning & knowledge73
Math75
Chat quality92
Following instructions91

What goes into each category · Compare with Gemini 4 Carbon

Human-vote score over time

Text arena, recent updates.

146514701475Oct 20: 1470.4 (rank #32)Oct 22: 1469.8 (rank #32)Oct 28: 1469.6 (rank #33)Oct 20Oct 28

Coding votes over time

WebDev arena, recent updates.

160016051610Oct 16: 1604.6 (rank #28)Oct 18: 1604.3 (rank #29)Oct 19: 1604.2 (rank #30)Oct 22: 1604.3 (rank #30)Oct 23: 1604.3 (rank #31)Oct 27: 1605.6 (rank #32)Oct 28: 1605.6 (rank #33)Oct 16Oct 28

Independent test runs

Run by Epoch AI on the same harness for every model. Bars show the share of questions answered correctly.

GPQA Diamond92%
PhD-level science multiple choice questions
Better than 91% of 333 tested models. Run Jun 24, 2026.
SimpleQA Verified34%
Short factual questions; rewards not making things up
Better than 38% of 100 tested models. Run Aug 27, 2026.
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2586%
Competition maths problems in the style of AIME
Better than 67% of 313 tested models. Run Jun 25, 2026.
FrontierMath Tiers 1-359%
Very hard, unpublished research-style maths problems
Better than 65% of 122 tested models. Run Jun 19, 2026.
SWE-bench Verified79%
Fixing real GitHub issues in Python repositories
Better than 88% of 35 tested models. Run Jun 25, 2026.

Human-vote arenas

People compare two anonymous answers and pick the better one. Scores work like chess ratings.

ArenaRankScoreRange (95%)VotesUpdated
Text arena
Everyday chat, blind human votes
#33 of 41914701466–147453,702Oct 28, 2026
WebDev arena
Building web apps, blind human votes
#33 of 15216061600–161217,817Oct 28, 2026
Vision arena
Questions about images, blind human votes
Not on this board yet
Agent arena
Real multi-step agent sessions
#26 of 570.8%-0.0–1.5%99,064Nov 2, 2026

Source: Arena (formerly LMArena) leaderboard dataset, CC BY 4.0. Fetched Nov 4, 2026.

Price

Input
$0.006
per 1M tokens
Output
$6.8
per 1M tokens
Blended
$1.7
3 in : 1 out, per 1M
Context window
1M
max tokens per request
Speed
Coming soon
our own tests

List price from the OpenRouter models API (z-ai/glm-5.2), Nov 4, 2026. Providers can charge differently.