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Why use GLM-5.2 on Z.ai?
Z.ai offers GLM-5.2 with pay-as-you-go pricing at $1.40/1M input tokens. Z.ai is an AI model serving and inference platform for efficient LLM deployment.
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Compare GLM-5.2 Across Providers
| Provider | Input (per 1M) | Output (per 1M) |
|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter | $1.40 | $4.40 |
| Z.ai | $1.40 | $4.40 |
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).