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zai-org MIT out 4 months ago

753B parameters (8 of 256 experts per token), text in, text out, 1M tokens of context. 28 providers serve it from $0.034 per million input tokens.

Verified 2026-10-25 Rank #9 in LLMs · score 131.1 method v1 Sources 5 Downloads 30d 322.7k · #211 of 619 tracked

Changed this week: Cheapest input price fell 31.8%: $0.050 → $0.034 per 1M (OpenRouter).2026-10-24

Can I run it?452GB at INT4Estimateneeds a multi-GPU nodemethodCommunity: GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally →
What does it cost?$0.034/1M incheapest of 27Waferfp42026-10-24
Can I use it?MITPermissivelicence file2026-10-24
Do people use it?322.7kdownloads, 30 days#211 of 619 we track · top 34%+3 likes, downloads −29% this week5,186 likesHugging Face2026-10-24

The ringer: four playful tests

A pelican steals a bicycle from a supermarket

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Finish the dad joke

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Why did the open-weights model cross the road?

Because it couldn't weight!

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A parasailer, in ASCII

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Animate a bouncing ball

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Worth reading

Picked by rule from 35 tracked pieces: the lab's own post, the most shared, a field report, the latest.

GLM 5.2 lacks vision support, preventing it from reading image-based PDFs, screenshots, and design files.

From GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse · martinalderson.com · 2026-07-06
The lab's own post

ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2

ZCode is an official harness for GLM-5.3 offering 10,000 Credits per week and rolling access to flagship models.

zcode.z.ai 2026-07-01 511 HN pts · 355 comments 264 words
Field report

Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer

colibri runs frontier MoE models like GLM-5.2 (744B parameters) on existing hardware by streaming experts from disk, using only 40B parameters per token with 11 GB of routed experts changing per token.

  • The setup automatically switches to Vulkan if the CUDA toolkit does not support the installed graphics card.
  • On integrated GPUs, the engine only runs models that were specifically measured to be faster on that hardware.
github.com 2026-07-09 937 HN pts · 240 comments 6.1k words
Latest · 4 months ago

GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

GLM 5.2 from Z.ai acts as a drop-in replacement for Opus and GPT 5.5, costing around $4.40/MTok which is less than 20% of the retail price of Opus.

  • GLM 5.2 lacks vision support, preventing it from reading image-based PDFs, screenshots, and design files.
  • The model's poor web search capabilities are a significant weakness because nearly every agentic session performs web searching.
martinalderson.com 2026-07-06 694 HN pts · 469 comments 1.4k words

25 best of 35 tracked

The 6 picks above, plus these 19. Top is the radar's score: discussion, source authority and the lab's own posts, fading with age.

  1. ArticleGLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai · 2026-06-17 · 916 HN pts
  2. DiscussionGLM 5.2 Is Outtwitter.com · 2026-06-13 · 772 HN pts
  3. ArticleGPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2arrowtsx.dev · 2026-06-19 · 585 HN pts
  4. ArticleGLM 5.2 vs. Opustechstackups.com · 2026-06-19 · 519 HN pts
  5. ArticleGLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keepertoot-books.com · 2026-07-09
  6. ArticleGLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarksartificialanalysis.ai · 2026-06-17
  7. ArticleGLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasksz.ai · 2026-06-16 · official
  8. ArticleMistral to host Z.ai's GLM-5.2mistral.ai · 2026-08-12
  9. ArticleGLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMsimonwillison.net · 2026-06-18
  10. ArticleMiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasksthinkwright.ai · 2026-06-19
  11. ArticleGLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running Itvettedconsumer.com · 2026-06-19
  12. DiscussionGLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weightstwitter.com · 2026-06-16
  13. DiscussionZCode: GLM-5.2's own harness is officially livetwitter.com · 2026-07-01
  14. ArticleGLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Taskshuggingface.co · 2026-06-17
  15. ArticleLossless model compression experiment: GLM-5.2 in 25% less memorybrianbell-x.github.io · 2026-07-20
  16. DiscussionGLM 5.2 Releasedtwitter.com · 2026-06-13
  17. ArticleKimi K3 and GLM 5.2 can create undetectable malware for $2incalmo.ai · 2026-07-29
  18. DiscussionGLM-5.2 Beat Fable 5 at Website Designtwitter.com · 2026-06-20
  19. ArticleHow GLM-5.2 beat Fable 5 At Website Designnotes.designarena.ai · 2026-06-19

Where to run it

Live hosted endpoints, cheapest first, USD per million tokens. Ties break on output price, then provider name.

Prices for the same weights vary 60×

27 providers with a live price, from $0.034 to $2.05 per million input tokens; the median is $0.97. One dot per provider, cheapest in teal.

$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Wafer: $0.034 in / $7.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Baidu: $0.19 in / $0.59 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Cloudflare: $0.19 in / $8.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2StreamLake: $0.28 in / $0.88 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Relace: $0.40 in / $4.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2DeepInfra: $0.45 in / $1.44 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingMorph: $0.45 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Ambient: $0.60 in / $2.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2CoreWeave: $0.62 in / $2.42 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Novita: $0.65 in / $2.04 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingDigitalOcean: $0.70 in / $2.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2SiliconFlow: $0.70 in / $2.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2AtlasCloud: $0.94 in / $2.95 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Alibaba: $0.97 in / $3.04 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Inceptron: $0.99 in / $1.19 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Decart: $1.20 in / $8.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Phala: $1.26 in / $3.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Together AI: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingZ.ai: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingBaseten: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingParasail: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/billing/pricingNebius: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Mistral: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2+3Scaleway: $2.05 in / $6.27 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingcheapest $0.034median $0.97
$0.010$0.10$1.00$10.00Wafer: $0.034 in / $7.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Baidu: $0.19 in / $0.59 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Cloudflare: $0.19 in / $8.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2StreamLake: $0.28 in / $0.88 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Relace: $0.40 in / $4.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2DeepInfra: $0.45 in / $1.44 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingMorph: $0.45 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Ambient: $0.60 in / $2.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2CoreWeave: $0.62 in / $2.42 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Novita: $0.65 in / $2.04 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingDigitalOcean: $0.70 in / $2.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2SiliconFlow: $0.70 in / $2.20 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2AtlasCloud: $0.94 in / $2.95 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Alibaba: $0.97 in / $3.04 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Inceptron: $0.99 in / $1.19 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Decart: $1.20 in / $8.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Phala: $1.26 in / $3.00 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Together AI: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingZ.ai: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingBaseten: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingParasail: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://docs.parasail.io/parasail-docs/billing/pricingNebius: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2Mistral: $1.40 in / $4.40 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-24 · https://openrouter.ai/z-ai/glm-5.2+3Scaleway: $2.05 in / $6.27 out per 1M · observed 2026-10-25 · https://huggingface.co/api/models/zai-org/GLM-5.2?expand[]=inferenceProviderMappingcheapest $0.034 · median $0.97 (white tick)
#Cheapest 5In /1MOut /1MContextQuantSeen
1 Wafer $0.034 $7.00 1M fp4 Oct 24
2 Baidu $0.19 $0.59 1M fp8 Oct 24
3 Cloudflare $0.19 $8.00 256K unknown Oct 24
4 StreamLake $0.28 $0.88 1000K fp8 Oct 24
5 Relace $0.40 $4.00 1M unknown Oct 24

All 28 providers →

Where it's used

Hugging Face does not say who downloads a model or with what. These are the proxies: API providers listing it, quantized builds, fine-tunes/adapters/merges, and Spaces that load it.

Widely served (28 API providers); heavily run locally (149 quantized builds).

  • As a service28Alibaba, Ambient, AtlasCloud, Baidu +24
  • On own hardware149quantized builds
  • Built on2726 fine-tunes · 1 adapters · 0 merges
  • In apps100+Hugging Face Spaces

Top Spaces running it: huggingface/ai-deadlines ♥ 783 · smolagents/ml-intern ♥ 423 · akhaliq/GLM-5.2 ♥ 11 · ICML-2026-agent-repro/logbook-judge ♥ 11

Will it fit?

Weights only, an estimate: leave room for the KV cache. Method

Needs an 8×80 GB node even at INT4

About 452 GB at INT4, 904 GB at FP8, 1.81 TB at BF16: weights only, so leave room for the KV cache. Every expert must be resident, so total parameters count.

16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 452 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4452 GBFP8: about 904 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8904 GBBF16: about 1.81 TB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF161.81 TB
16 GB card64 GB Mac2×80 GB8×80 GBINT4: about 452 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)INT4452 GBFP8: about 904 GB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)FP8904 GBBF16: about 1.81 TB of weights (estimate; KV cache and activations extra)BF161.81 TB

Estimate params × bytes per param × 1.2 · how we estimate

Day-one receipts

Claim-matched tests, graded by code. Receipts, not a score.

Speed run● pass
{
  "providers": [
    {
      "provider": "parasail",
      "endpoint_model": "parasail-glm-52",
      "source_url": "https://api.parasail.io/v1/chat/completions",
      "ttft_ms_median": 4934,
      "ttft_any_ms_median": 649,
      "tokens_per_s_median": 230.7,
      "runs": [
        {
          "ttft_s": 4.874,
          "ttft_any_s": 0.767,
          "tokens_per_s": 163.8,
          "latency_s": 5.4,
          "tokens_out": 884,
          "reasoning_chars": 3388,
          "finish": "stop"
        },
        {
          "ttft_s": null,
          "ttft_any_s": 0.524,
          "tokens_per_s": 250.9,
          "latency_s": 5.98,
          "tokens_out": 1500,
          "reasoning_chars": 5633,
          "finish": "length"
        },
        {
          "ttft_s": 4.993,
          "ttft_any_s": 0.649,
          "tokens_per_s": 230.7,
          "latency_s": 5.52,
          "tokens_out": 1274,
          "reasoning_chars": 4008,
          "finish": "stop"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "note": "Single client, wall clock; tok/s counts every output token including hidden reasoning."
}
Three-tool errand● pass
{
  "calls": [
    {
      "name": "get_weather",
      "args": {
        "city": "Lisbon",
        "date": "2026-10-14"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "check_calendar",
      "args": {
        "date": "2026-10-14"
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "book_table",
      "args": {
        "restaurant": "Cervejaria Ramiro",
        "date": "2026-10-14",
        "time": "19:30",
        "party_size": 2
      }
    }
  ],
  "checks": {
    "get_weather": true,
    "check_calendar": true,
    "book_table": true
  },
  "final": "Everything's set! Here's a summary:\n\n- **Weather**: Clear skies in Lisbon on Wednesday, 14 October 2026 — no rain expected (high of 22°C).\n- **Calendar**: Your free evening slot was **19:30–21:30**.\n- **Restaurant booking**: Table for 2 at **Cervejaria Ramiro** on **2026-10-14 at 19:30**.\n- **Confirmation code: TBL-4471**\n\nEnjoy your evening out! 🦐",
  "fixture": "receipts.errand.v1"
}
calls in order · args 3/3 · confirmed · 2026-10-094.1 s

The story so far

Weights, every dated article, and repo commits on one rail.

Most coverage came in the first two weeks

Teal is the weights (2026-06-16), amber triangles are 10 dated articles (each links to it), grey ticks are repo commits.

What people built on it

176 derivatives on the Hub. Which build to run, by runtime: the most downloaded in each class.

176 derivatives on the Hub, most of them quantized

From the Hugging Face model tree; quantized builds in teal, fine-tunes, merges and adapters in greys.

149 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)26 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 adapter (Hugging Face model tree)149 quantized26 fine-tunes1 adapter
149 quantized (Hugging Face model tree)26 fine-tunes (Hugging Face model tree)1 adapter (Hugging Face model tree)149 quantized26 fine-tunes1 adapter

All variants →

Reference

Everything else, folded: the full tables, every source.

Benchmarks

24 rows

Benchmarks 24 rows

measured third-party leaderboard rowauthor-reported number from the model card or eval files (24)No confidence intervals unless the source gave them; settings differ between rows, so compare within a benchmark, not across. Date = the benchmark's own date when it gives one, else when we read it.
BenchmarkValueSetting / notesReported byDate
author-reported AIME 2026 · Reason through hard problems99.2—model author2026-10-07
author-reported CritPt20.9—model author2026-10-07
author-reported DeepSWE · Write code with agents46.2—model author2026-10-07
author-reported FrontierSWE · Write code with agents74.4—model author2026-10-07
author-reported GPQA Diamond · Reason through hard problems91.2—model author2026-10-07
author-reported HLE (w/ Tools)54.7—model author2026-10-07
author-reported HMMT · Reason through hard problems94.4—model author2026-10-07
author-reported HMMT · Reason through hard problems92.5—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Humanity's Last Exam · Reason through hard problems40.5—model author2026-10-07
author-reported IMO-AnswerBench · Reason through hard problems91—model author2026-10-07
author-reported MCP-Atlas (Public Set)76.8—model author2026-10-07
author-reported NL2Repo · Write code with agents48.9—model author2026-10-07
author-reported PostTrainBench34.3—model author2026-10-07
author-reported ProgramBench63.7—model author2026-10-07
author-reported SWE-Marathon13—model author2026-10-07
author-reported SWE-bench Pro · Write code with agents62.1—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Terminal-Bench · Write code with agents81—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Terminal-Bench · Write code with agents82.7—model author2026-10-07
author-reported Tool-Decathlon48.2—model author2026-10-07
author-reported deep_swe (datacurve/deep-swe)46.2—Model Card2026-10-24
author-reported diamond (Idavidrein/gpqa)91.2—Model Card2026-10-24
author-reported hle (cais/hle)40.5—Model Card2026-10-24
author-reported hle (cais/hle)54.7With toolsModel Card2026-10-24
author-reported SWE_Bench_Pro (ScaleAI/SWE-bench_Pro)62.1—Model Card2026-10-24

What the card says

1 cited sentence

Summary generated, cited

The model features a 1M-token context and is released under an MIT open-source license.[1][2]

  1. “solid 1M-token context”
  2. license

Generated 2026-10-07 14:59 UTC by parasail-gemma-4-26b-a4b-it; each numeral points at the fact it rests on. Not a verdict.

Use-case evidence

5 use cases

What it is good at 5 use cases

Labels are evidence, not verdicts: measured a third-party leaderboard row for this model; author-reported a number the model author published in the card or eval files; structural a deterministic signal from the name, config or chat template, or a decision-model estimate. Each chip links to its source. All use cases.

Facts

24 fields

Listed in LLMs · MoE

Facts

Pipeline tagtext-generation
Librarytransformers
ArchitecturesGlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
Model typeglm_moe_dsa
Dtypebfloat16
Params by dtypeBF16: 753,329,921,024 · F32: 19,456
Size bandXXL
MoEyes
Experts256
Experts per token8
Context length1,048,576 (config.json max_position_embeddings)
Languagesen, zh
PapersarXiv:2602.15763, arXiv:2603.12201
LicenseMIT (mit)
Hub snapshot2026-10-25

Servability

vLLM · SGLang

Servability

vLLM: supported · GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM · 7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6SGLang: not in registry · 773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed

vLLM registry (7050ef881ff0835f6890a47db1859a24c65481d6) · SGLang registry (773cb938fe9484a8f7e7e46fb1b1fe96412c59ed) · Matched by architecture class name against each project's registry on main; 'supported' means the architecture is registered, not that this checkpoint was tested.

Hardware fit

3 estimates

Hardware fit ESTIMATE

Weights-only memory for GLM-5.2: params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead. KV cache and activations are extra. How this is computed.

BF16 (2 bytes/param)1.81 TB · Cluster (≥640 GB)
FP8 (1 byte/param)904 GB · Cluster (≥640 GB)
INT4 (0.5 bytes/param)452 GB · Multi-GPU node (<640 GB)

Weights only (params × bytes/param × 1.2 overhead); KV cache and activations extra. MoE: all experts must be resident, so total parameters count.

All variants

40 variants

Lineage

Original model Family: zai-org/GLM-5.2 176 derivatives on the Hub

quantized: 149finetune: 26adapter: 1

Top variants (40 shown, ranked by downloads)

Relation
Quant
Size
40 rows
Variant Relation Quant Params Band License Author Likes Downloads
nvidia/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 381B XXL mit nvidia 328 3.9M
unsloth/GLM-5.2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit unsloth 647 1.4M
cyankiwi/GLM-5.2-AWQ-INT4 quantized AWQ 753B XXL mit cyankiwi 15 519.8k
amd/GLM-5.2-MXFP4 quantized MXFP4 412B XXL mit amd 18 307.2k
local-inference-lab/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 386B XXL mit local-inference-lab 32 123.1k
brandonmusic/GLM-5.2-EXL3-TR3v4-3.5bpw-MTP78 quantized EXL3 173B XXL mit brandonmusic 9 101k
QuantTrio/GLM-5.2-Int4-Int8Mix quantized Int4 785B XXL mit QuantTrio 21 100k
pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-REAP50-Q3_K_M-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit pipenetwork 15 87.8k
huihui-ai/Huihui-GLM-5.2-abliterated-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit huihui-ai 360 50.4k
sokann/GLM-5.2-GGUF-2.244bpw quantized GGUF — — mit sokann 26 35.7k
RedHatAI/GLM-5.2-NVFP4-FP8 quantized NVFP4 425B XXL mit RedHatAI 25 35.6k
malaiwah/GLM-5.2-EXL3-FQ-segments quantized EXL3 — — mit malaiwah 0 35.2k
mlx-community/GLM-5.2-DQ4plus-q8 quantized — 743B XXL mit mlx-community 18 32.9k
mastouri/GLM-5.2-colibri-int4-g64-with-int8-mtp quantized int4 — — mit mastouri 144 25.4k
0xSero/GLM-5.2-504B quantized — 290B XXL mit 0xSero 33 25k
baseten/GLM-5.2-Vision-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 381B XXL mit baseten 155 18.6k
pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-mixed-3_6bit quantized MLX 743B XXL mit pipenetwork 6 21.3k
mlx-community/GLM-5.2-4bit quantized -4bit 743B XXL mit mlx-community 6 19.2k
modal-labs/glm-5.2-nvfp4-experts-only quantized nvfp4 381B XXL other modal-labs 0 19.5k
0xSero/GLM-5.2-REAP-504B-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit 0xSero 48 16.1k
canada-quant/GLM-5.2-W4A16-MTP quantized -W4A16 116B XXL mit canada-quant 21 16.8k
inferencerlabs/GLM-5.2-MLX-Q4i quantized MLX — — — inferencerlabs 9 16.9k
inference-optimization/GLM-5.2-0.8B-A0.8B finetune — 850M S mit inference-optimization 4 16.3k
philipjohnbasile/GLM-5.2-Demolition-q4a4-soul-MLX quantized MLX 186B XXL mit philipjohnbasile 12 15.6k
kernelpool/GLM-5.2-8bit quantized -8bit 743B XXL mit kernelpool 0 15.5k
avlp12/GLM-5.2-Alis-MLX-Dynamic-3.5bpw quantized MLX 751B XXL mit avlp12 5 14.7k
SixVolts/GLM-5.2-ewaste-edition-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit SixVolts 15 13.3k
Mapika/GLM-5.2-NVFP4 quantized NVFP4 379B XXL mit Mapika 7 12.3k
pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-4bit quantized MLX 743B XXL mit pipenetwork 3 11.9k
inferencerlabs/GLM-5.2-MTP-MLX finetune MLX 9.95B L — inferencerlabs 7 11.6k
pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-MLX-8bit quantized MLX 743B XXL mit pipenetwork 0 11.7k
avlp12/GLM-5.2-Alis-MLX-Dynamic-2.56bpw quantized MLX 751B XXL mit avlp12 2 10.4k
DevQuasar/zai-org.GLM-5.2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — — DevQuasar 3 10.2k
muzzy/GLM-5.2-GGUF quantized GGUF — — mit muzzy 9 8.9k
tiny-random/glm-5.2 finetune — 13.2M S — tiny-random 1 8.9k
spicyneuron/GLM-5.2-MLX-4.5bit quantized MLX 743B XXL mit spicyneuron 2 8.3k
bearzi/GLM-5.2-JANGTQ_K finetune — 79.2B XL mit bearzi 3 8.2k
pipenetwork/GLM-5.2-REAP50-Q2_K-GGUF quantized Q2_K — — mit pipenetwork 3 7.6k
unsloth/GLM-5.2-FP8 quantized -FP8 753B XXL mit unsloth 11 6.8k
lowbitcoffee/GLM-5.2-W4A16 quantized -W4A16 101B XXL mit lowbitcoffee 4 7k

Repository changelog

15 commits
changed in the last 7 daysPrice moves: 2026-10-24all changes

Repository changelog 15 commits

DateCommitSHA
2026-09-01 Update README.md cf457fa
2026-07-02 add moe_router_dtype config b4734de
2026-06-23 add Footnote f226310
2026-06-22 Add community evaluation results for DEEP-SWE, GPQA, HLE, SWE-BENCH_PRO (#12) e32aaf0
2026-06-19 add unsloth 5378302
2026-06-17 Update README.md 4d67f66
2026-06-17 update with Ascend support 120edc2
2026-06-16 update readme f6142f1
2026-06-16 update readme b4d667e
2026-06-16 init readme 48cf768
2026-06-16 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 96b232d
2026-06-16 Add files using upload-large-folder tool f3ce794
2026-06-16 Add files using upload-large-folder tool a66456a
2026-06-16 Add files using upload-large-folder tool 08c85fa
2026-06-16 initial commit b416619

All providers

28 providers · 28 endpoints

Where to run 28 providers · 28 endpoints

Hosted endpoints observed for GLM-5.2, sorted by input price (USD per million tokens). Each row names its observer and date; prices change daily, so check the source before quoting. Cheapest observed input price: $0.03/M.

ProviderModel refContextQuant$/M in$/M outtok/sTTFTToolsStatusObserved
Wafer
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp4 $0.03 $7.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Baidu
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $0.19 $0.59 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Cloudflare
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 256K unknown $0.19 $8.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
StreamLake
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1000K fp8 $0.28 $0.88 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Relace
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M unknown $0.40 $4.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
DeepInfra
hf, deepinfra, openrouter
zai-org/GLM-5.2 1M fp4 $0.45 $1.44 70 620 ms yes live 2026-10-25
Morph
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $0.45 $4.40 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Ambient
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 198K fp8 $0.60 $2.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
CoreWeave
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp4 $0.62 $2.42 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Novita
hf, openrouter
zai-org/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $0.65 $2.04 51.1 1813 ms yes live 2026-10-25
DigitalOcean
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M unknown $0.70 $2.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
SiliconFlow
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $0.70 $2.20 — — yes live 2026-10-24
AtlasCloud
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $0.94 $2.95 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Alibaba
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 977K fp8 $0.97 $3.04 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Inceptron
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp4 $0.99 $1.19 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Decart
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp4 $1.20 $8.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Phala
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $1.26 $3.00 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Together AI
hf, openrouter
zai-org/GLM-5.2 1024K unknown $1.40 $4.40 200.5 224 ms yes live 2026-10-25
Z.ai
hf, openrouter
glm-5.2 1M fp8 $1.40 $4.40 56 2691 ms yes live 2026-10-25
Baseten
hf, openrouter
zai-org/GLM-5.2 1M fp8 $1.40 $4.40 87.5 1004 ms yes live 2026-10-25
Parasail
parasail, openrouter
parasail-glm-52 256K fp4 $1.40 $4.40 — — yes serverless 2026-10-24
Nebius
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp4 $1.40 $4.40 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Mistral
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M nvfp4 $1.40 $4.40 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Venice
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 977K fp8 $1.40 $4.40 — — yes live 2026-10-24
GMICloud
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M fp8 $1.40 $4.40 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Friendli
openrouter
z-ai/glm-5.2 1M unknown $1.40 $4.40 — — yes live 2026-10-24
Scaleway
hf
glm-5.2 — — $2.05 $6.27 138.9 481 ms yes live 2026-10-25
Featherless
hf
zai-org/GLM-5.2 — — — — — — — live 2026-10-25

Articles and coverage

35 pieces

Ranked by source signals (HN, Lobsters, authority domains, official posts) and recency. Summaries are generated from a stored copy of the article text; every sentence cites a span of that text, and nothing is shown that failed the citation check.

Official2

zcode.z.ai2026-07-01officialauthorityHN front pageHN 511 pts · 355 comments264 words
ZCode is an official harness for GLM-5.3 offering 10,000 Credits per week and rolling access to flagship models. The platform supports 20+ agent tools including Claude Code and integrates GLM-5.3-Flash for multimodal tasks like image analysis. Engineers can steer work from WeChat, Feishu, or Telegram with default data privacy.written, reviewed, cited
unsloth.ai2026-06-22authorityHN front pageHN 617 pts · 305 comments1,664 words
Z.ai released GLM-5.2, a 744B parameter open model with 40B active parameters and a 1M context window. Dynamic 1-bit reaches ~76.2% top-1 accuracy while being 86% smaller, and Dynamic 2-bit reaches ~82% accuracy while being 84% smaller. The 2-bit dynamic quant UD-IQ2_M uses 239GB of disk space, fitting on a 256GB unified memory Mac with MoE offloading.written, reviewed, cited
  • Disabling reasoning requires passing --chat-template-kwargs with enable_thinking set to false.
  • Dynamic 1-bit quantization requires at least 223GB of total RAM and VRAM combined.
  • Using q4_0 KV cache quantization can extend supported context lengths by approximately 3.5x.

Analysis7

github.com2026-07-09authorityHN front pageHN 937 pts · 240 comments6,133 words
colibri runs frontier MoE models like GLM-5.2 (744B parameters) on existing hardware by streaming experts from disk, using only 40B parameters per token with 11 GB of routed experts changing per token. The engine requires 8 GB of RAM and 22 GB of free disk space, supporting thirteen models including Kimi K3 (2.8T parameters) and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next with optional int4 experts. It builds engines for your machine and downloads models with resume support.written, reviewed, cited
  • The setup automatically switches to Vulkan if the CUDA toolkit does not support the installed graphics card.
  • On integrated GPUs, the engine only runs models that were specifically measured to be faster on that hardware.
  • The Qwen-Image-2.1 model operates under a non-commercial licence for text-to-picture generation.
artificialanalysis.ai2026-06-17authorityHN front pageHN 916 pts · 444 comments720 words
Z ai's GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, scoring 51 and sitting on the Pareto frontier of Intelligence vs Cost per Task. The model features 744B total parameters with a 1M token context window and carries an MIT license. It costs approximately $0.46 per task, utilizing 43k output tokens per Intelligence Index task, which is higher than peers like MiniMax-M3 at 24k.written, reviewed, cited
  • GLM-5.2 scores 4 on the AA-Omniscience Index, up from GLM-5.1 (2), with a lower hallucination rate of 28.1% versus 29.4%.
martinalderson.com2026-07-06HN front pageHN 694 pts · 469 comments1,444 words
GLM 5.2 from Z.ai acts as a drop-in replacement for Opus and GPT 5.5, costing around $4.40/MTok which is less than 20% of the retail price of Opus. While the model lacks vision support and has poor web search capabilities, it runs 2.75x cheaper per token on AMD hardware compared to Nvidia Blackwell. These factors make it a credible option for budget-conscious workflows despite slower inference speeds due to extensive thinking.written, reviewed, cited
  • GLM 5.2 lacks vision support, preventing it from reading image-based PDFs, screenshots, and design files.
  • The model's poor web search capabilities are a significant weakness because nearly every agentic session performs web searching.
  • Z.ai's official API terms regarding training and data retention are described as very lax and difficult to sell for professional use.
semgrep.dev2026-06-28HN front pageHN 1,113 pts · 516 comments1,802 words
interconnects.ai2026-06-23authorityHN front pageHN 367 pts · 223 comments1,723 words
arrowtsx.dev2026-06-19HN front pageHN 585 pts · 294 comments668 words
techstackups.com2026-06-19HN front pageHN 519 pts · 343 comments3,015 words

Community1

twitter.com2026-06-13HN front pageHN 772 pts · 504 comments
All coverage tracked for this model (35) — append-only, nothing is ever removed
TitleSourcePublishedFirst seenSignals
GLM 5.2 Review: Is Zhipu's Open Model Actually Good? (2026)layer3labs.io—2026-10-07exa
Mistral to host Z.ai's GLM-5.2mistral.ai2026-08-122026-10-07hn
Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2 can create undetectable malware for $2incalmo.ai2026-07-292026-10-07hn
Lossless model compression experiment: GLM-5.2 in 25% less memorybrianbell-x.github.io2026-07-202026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2: The open coding model that put the critic back into RL | GLM-5.2 – Weights & Biaseswandb.ai2026-07-102026-10-07exa
GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keepertoot-books.com2026-07-092026-10-07hn
Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computergithub.com2026-07-092026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2 Review: Near-Frontier Coding at Open Pricesorcarouter.ai2026-07-072026-10-07exa
GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapsemartinalderson.com2026-07-062026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2: How Four Co-Designed Mechanisms Beat Raw Scale | Irys Universityirys.ai2026-07-022026-10-07exa
ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2zcode.z.ai official2026-07-012026-10-07hn
ZCode: GLM-5.2's own harness is officially livetwitter.com2026-07-012026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2: Specs, Benchmarks, Pricing, Open Weights | Pilot Shellpilot-shell.com2026-07-012026-10-07exa
GLM-5.2 Review: Best Open-Weight Coder at 1/6 Cost | Awesome Agentsawesomeagents.ai2026-06-292026-10-07exa
GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarkssemgrep.dev2026-06-282026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2 Architecture Deep Dive: Index Share, Sparse Attention, and Multi-Token Prediction | MindStudiomindstudio.ai2026-06-262026-10-07exa
GLM-5.2 deep dive: the open-weight model that beats GPT-5.5 on coding - Turiloopturiloop.com2026-06-252026-10-07exa
GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agentsinterconnects.ai2026-06-232026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locallyunsloth.ai2026-06-222026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2 Deep Dive: 1M Context, Benchmarks & API - TreeRouter Blogapi.treerouter.ai2026-06-222026-10-07exa
GLM-5.2: Advancing Long-Horizon Tasks with 1M Token Context | Gradients & Tidesjianyuh.github.io2026-06-212026-10-07exa
GLM-5.2 Beat Fable 5 at Website Designtwitter.com2026-06-202026-10-07hn
How GLM-5.2 beat Fable 5 At Website Designnotes.designarena.ai2026-06-192026-10-07hn
MiniMax M3 vs. GLM 5.2: Codegen comparison across autonomous coding tasksthinkwright.ai2026-06-192026-10-07hn
GPT-5.5 hallucinates 3x more than MIT-licensed GLM-5.2arrowtsx.dev2026-06-192026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2 vs. Opustechstackups.com2026-06-192026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2: The Most Powerful Open Model yet and the Brutal Reality of Running Itvettedconsumer.com2026-06-192026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLMsimonwillison.net2026-06-182026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysisartificialanalysis.ai2026-06-172026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Taskshuggingface.co2026-06-172026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2 Performance Benchmarksartificialanalysis.ai2026-06-172026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2: Frontier Intelligence, Open Weightstwitter.com2026-06-162026-10-07hn
GLM-5.2: Built for Long-Horizon Tasksz.ai official2026-06-162026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2 Is Outtwitter.com2026-06-132026-10-07hn
GLM 5.2 Releasedtwitter.com2026-06-132026-10-07hn

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