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Why use GLM-5.2 on OpenRouter?
OpenRouter offers GLM-5.2 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.40/1M input tokens. OpenRouter is a multi-provider LLM aggregator offering unified API access to 300+ models from all major labs and emerging providers, with automatic failover for reliability.
Setup recipe
Docs fallbackUse the provider REST API or SDKCreate a provider API keymodel: z-ai/glm-5.2z-ai/glm-5.2Request example
z-ai/glm-5.2.Gotchas
- Use provider model ID "z-ai/glm-5.2", not the LLMReference slug "glm-5.2".
Pricing
| Type | Price (per 1M) |
|---|---|
| Input tokens | $1.40 |
| Output tokens | $4.40 |
Capabilities
About GLM-5.2
GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's coding-first successor to GLM-5.1 in the GLM-5 family, released June 13 2026. 753B parameters (40B active) in IndexShare MoE architecture; the IndexShare innovation reuses the same attention indexer across every four sparse layers, cutting per-token FLOPs by 2.9x at 1M context length. Trained on 28.5T tokens. Supports a 1M-token context window via the glm-5.2[1m] model ID, with 131,072-token maximum output and High/Max thinking-effort levels designed for extended agentic coding sessions. MIT license; open weights available on Hugging Face (zai-org/GLM-5.2 and zai-org/GLM-5.2-FP8).