GLM 5.2
Zhipu's open-weight coding model — 1M context, MIT.
About
GLM 5.2 is Zhipu's (Z.ai) open-weight coding model: 1M usable token context, agentic coding positioning, and MIT-licensed weights (released a week after launch).
Released June 13, 2026. Available via a flat Coding Plan subscription or standalone API. The Chinese open-weights counterweight to DeepSeek — repo-scale agentic coding with permissive licensing.
Specs
Context window
Pricing
Free quota
API access
Weights
Released
Benchmarks
Provider positioning vs DeepSeek V4 on coding — provider-claimed; independent verification thin.
Provider-reported unless a source says otherwise. Benchmarks are marketing-adjacent by nature — treat them as directional.
Use cases
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). MIT open weights, 1M context, real release with API. Docked for thinner independent benchmark verification than DeepSeek. Verified tier.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 8.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · provider-tier estimate — thinner evidence (no public adoption metric)
- · Zhipu GLM 5.2; MIT open weights; 1M context
- · released 122 days ago
- · manual review: GLM 5.2 — agentic coding, 1M usable context; MIT weights (week after launch); flat Coding Plan; license: MIT