--- title: GLM-5.2 - The Open Model That's As Good As Opus! | daily.dev description: GLM 5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weight model from ZAI with an MIT license, is tested across a range of tasks including web page generation, Chrome... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-open-model-that-s-as-good-as-opus--oialxgohy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GLM-5.2 - The Open Model That's As Good As Opus! | daily.dev og:description: GLM 5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weight model from ZAI with an MIT license, is tested across a range of tasks including web page generation, Chrome... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-open-model-that-s-as-good-as-opus--oialxgohy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/oIAlxgOhY.png og:image:alt: GLM-5.2 - The Open Model That's As Good As Opus! og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GLM-5.2 - The Open Model That's As Good As Opus! **[Matt Wolfe](https://daily.dev/sources/mreflow)** · 28 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GLM 5.2, a 753-billion-parameter open-weight model from ZAI with an MIT license, is tested across a range of tasks including web page generation, Chrome extension creation, 3D game cloning, file organization, and agentic workflows via Cursor. With a 1M token context window, 128K max output, MCP support, and pricing far below frontier models like Claude Opus or GPT, it positions itself as a cost-effective alternative for coding-heavy and document-heavy tasks. While it doesn't beat top closed models across the board, its open weights, cheap API, and strong agentic performance make it worth testing — especially as US restrictions on Chinese AI models increase pressure to find alternatives. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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