--- title: GLM 5.2 - The Top NEW Open Weights Model | daily.dev description: GLM 5.2, the latest open-weights model from ZhipuAI, has been released with both full and FP8 versions. Benchmark results from Artificial Analysis show a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-top-new-open-weights-model-orcjuicl0 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GLM 5.2 - The Top NEW Open Weights Model | daily.dev og:description: GLM 5.2, the latest open-weights model from ZhipuAI, has been released with both full and FP8 versions. Benchmark results from Artificial Analysis show a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-top-new-open-weights-model-orcjuicl0 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ORcjuiCL0.png og:image:alt: GLM 5.2 - The Top NEW Open Weights Model 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 Top NEW Open Weights Model **[Sam Witteveen](https://daily.dev/sources/samwitteveenai)** · 13 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GLM 5.2, the latest open-weights model from ZhipuAI, has been released with both full and FP8 versions. Benchmark results from Artificial Analysis show a significant jump in performance over GLM 5.1, placing it ahead of models like DeepSeek Pro, Qwen 3.7 Max, and Minimax M3, with only GPT 5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and the unavailable Fable 5 scoring higher. The model excels at long-horizon agentic tasks, multi-token prediction for faster output, and frontend/design generation (ranking #1 on the Design Arena). Pricing is $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, significantly cheaper than proprietary alternatives. The model is available via OpenRouter and the ZAI API, with more providers expected soon. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What is the pricing for GLM 5.2 compared to proprietary models like GPT 5.5? GLM 5.2 is priced at $140 per million input tokens and $440 per million output tokens across the providers currently serving it via OpenRouter, which is described as hugely cheaper than proprietary models like GPT 5.5 or Claude Opus 4.8. Even if GLM 5.2 uses more tokens to reach an answer, it's expected to work out cheaper for most use cases. _Developers comparing token costs across models can track pricing shifts like this on daily.dev._ ### Did Z.AI release the full weights and FP8 version of GLM 5.2? Yes, Z.AI released both the full-precision version and an FP8 version of the GLM 5.2 weights, making it a genuinely open-weight model rather than a proprietary-only release. This follows a broader trend among Chinese AI labs, including MiniMax 3 and some Qwen models, toward actually shipping weights instead of holding them back. _Anyone weighing open versus proprietary model choices can follow releases like this on daily.dev._ ### How does GLM 5.2 perform on agentic coding and design benchmarks compared to GLM 5.1? GLM 5.2 shows a substantial benchmark jump over GLM 5.1 in agentic coding tasks and ranks number one on Design Arena, ahead of Claude models, for frontend design tasks. On Artificial Analysis's combined benchmark, only GPT 5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, and the unavailable Fable 5 outperform it, beating out DeepSeek, Qwen 3.7 Max, and MiniMax M3. _Teams picking a model for agentic coding or UI generation can benchmark options like this on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#ai-coding](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-coding), [#glm](https://daily.dev/tags/glm) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-top-new-open-weights-model-orcjuicl0) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GLM 5.2 - The Top NEW Open Weights Model","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-top-new-open-weights-model-orcjuicl0","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/glm-5-2---the-top-new-open-weights-model-orcjuicl0"},"datePublished":"2026-06-17T13:13:18.500Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T18:47:42.503Z","description":"GLM 5.2, the latest open-weights model from ZhipuAI, has been released with both full and FP8 versions. 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