GLM

PrinzBench added GLM-5.2 and scored it 30/99 for legal research, while a separate LisanBench run placed GLM-5.2-high at #29 and noted high token use. The result matters because it cuts against code-centric GLM hype and points to weak search, statute fidelity, and reasoning on professional legal tasks.

Vercel and Wafer launched a serverless GLM-5.2 endpoint on AI Gateway with 1M context and published pricing. Teams get a high-throughput open-model option inside an existing gateway instead of managing GLM inference directly.

GLM-5.2 added Perplexity Agent API, Droid, and more hosting options, while Baseten reported over 280 TPS and sub-0.8s TTFT. Builders should watch the cost and benchmark data as it moves into production agent stacks.

BrowserCode, Hyper, OpenCode, Together, and other vendors added GLM-5.2 soon after release. That turns the open model into a deployable option across coding, browser automation, and hosted chat.

Independent results put GLM-5.2 at the top of the open-model DeepSWE board and near the top on debate and post-train evals. Watch token use and long reasoning traces, which can offset its headline price advantage.

Practitioners published concrete GLM-5.2 self-host numbers, from Mac Studio and 4090-class setups to annualized power and hardware costs. That matters because open weights now offer privacy and rate-limit control, but quant quality, electricity, and latency still keep hosted APIs cheaper for many teams.

Ollama said it doubled GPU capacity for GLM-5.2 cloud usage and said the model is currently hosted only in the US. The rollout adds capacity as open-model demand climbs, so users should check hosting and privacy details before deploying.

Wafer said its GLM-5.2 deployment leads Artificial Analysis on throughput and latency, and priced usage at $1.20 input and $4.10 output per million tokens. Compare serverless and dedicated endpoints if you need speed at scale.

Independent tests put GLM-5.2 near Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 on planning and coding, and users shared Claude Code, BrowserCode, dcode, and local-serving recipes. It matters because many engineers are treating it as a daily-driver option for text-heavy coding, though teams still report weaker vision and provider limits.

Builders published Claude Code and Droid setups for GLM-5.2 while Unsloth quantized it for local 256GB machines and Hugging Face opened temporary free inference. Teams can now run the open-weight model across hosted, local, and agent workflows.

Fresh third-party results put GLM-5.2 atop multiple open-model leaderboards, including the AA Coding Index, Vals Index, Terminal Bench 2.1, and Design Arena. The scores add independent confirmation, though demand spiked enough to strain some providers.

Z.ai released GLM-5.2 MIT-licensed open weights with 1M context and broad runtime support. Vendor and arena results put it near frontier closed models on long-horizon coding.

GLM-5.2 opened to GLM Coding Plan users and posters claimed #1 BridgeBench scores in BS and Reasoning, with one post citing 1/10th the cost and 300 tokens per second. Early frontend tests still found a gap to Fable 5 and Opus on finer visual details.

Z.ai made GLM-5.2 available to GLM Coding Plan users with High and Max thinking modes, 1M context, and promised API plus MIT open source next week. Early testers reported higher plan pricing, heavy rate limits, and mixed build quality versus Opus and Fable.

Arena ranked GLM-5.1 third on Code Arena and first among open models, putting it on par with Claude Sonnet 4.6 and within about 20 points of the overall lead. The update gives the open model a new frontier coding benchmark after its initial release and hosting wave.

Providers and agent platforms added GLM-5.1 endpoints across Modal, Together AI, Letta Code, Tembo, and Tabbit, with free trials, no-key access, and 99.9% SLA options. Use the new hosting options to test the model for coding and long-horizon agent workloads without waiting on self-hosting.

Z.ai released GLM-5.1, a 744B open model built for long-horizon agentic coding and ranked first among open systems on SWE-Bench Pro. Day-0 support in OpenRouter, Ollama, SGLang, vLLM, OpenCode, and local quantization paths makes it ready to test in existing stacks.

Z.ai released GLM-5V-Turbo, a multimodal coding model for screenshots, video, design drafts, and GUI-agent tasks. It keeps text-coding performance steady while adding native vision support, so teams can test visual workflows without swapping models.

Z.ai said GLM-5.1 is now available to all GLM Coding Plan users and highlighted a 5am to 11am PT switch window. The update broadens access beyond the initial rollout, though early practitioner tests reported weaker Repo bench and tool-calling behavior than 5.0.

Z.ai made GLM-5.1 available to all Coding Plan users and documented how to route coding agents to it by changing the model name in config. Early harness benchmarks place it near Opus 4.6 on coding evals, but BridgeBench users report much slower tokens per second.

Z.ai released GLM-5-Turbo as a faster GLM-5 variant for OpenClaw-style tool use, with 202K context, OpenRouter access, and higher off-peak limits. Try it as a cheaper speed tier for agent workflows, but benchmark completion quality on your own tasks before wider use.