Zhipu AI

GLM-5.2

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Modèle de Base à Poids OuvertsOfficial Source Verified ↗
91
Intelligence Index

GLM-5.2 de Zhipu AI est un modèle d’IA conçu pour l’auto-hébergement sur infrastructure privée, le fine-tuning et la souveraineté des données, offrant une fenêtre de contexte de 1M, une vitesse de 60 tokens/s, un indice d’intelligence de 91/100 et un tarif de accès gratuit à poids ouverts.

Technical Specifications

Provider
Zhipu AI
Category
open-source
Release Date
2026-06
Knowledge Cutoff
February 2026
Architecture
Massive Million-Token Open MoE Frontier Transformer
Parameters
350B MoE
Context Window
1M tokens
Max Output
32K tokens
Cached Input Price
$0 / 1M tokens
Batch API Discount
Standard rate
Consumer Subscription
Free / Self-Hosted
Reasoning Mode
Yes (Chain-of-Thought)
Reasoning Effort Control
Configurable (Low / Med / High)
Tool Calling
Yes
Structured Outputs
Yes
Open Weights
Yes (Open Source / Self-Hostable)
Input Modalities
text
Output Modalities
text
Official Documentation
Visit Official Docs ↗

Data Privacy, Licensing & Deployment Governance

API Data Training Policy
100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC
Model License & Commercial Rights
Open-Weights Research & Commercial License
Deployment & Cloud Availability
Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API
Output Ownership
Full commercial ownership of generated outputs

Official Provider Release Intelligence, API Quotas & Agentic Specs

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Official API Model ID (SDK String)
glm-5-2
Supported SDK & API Protocol
OpenAI-Compatible REST / vLLM / SGLang / HuggingFace TGI
Lifecycle & Deprecation Status
Active GA (Guaranteed support through 2028+)
Production Rate Limits (RPM & TPM)
Unlimited (Hardware-bound on self-hosted GPU) / 10,000 RPM Cloud · Unlimited local throughput / 10M+ TPM Managed Cloud
Long-Context Pricing Tier (>128K / >200K)
Free across full context window (only KV-cache VRAM scales)
Prompt Cache Write & TTL Policy
Automatic prefix KV-caching in vLLM / SGLang (0 cost)
Computer Use & Browser GUI Agent
API / CLI Tool-Use & DOM Agent ready (no raw pixel desktop click loop)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling
Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Code Sandbox
Supported via external Tavily/Exa Search & E2B/Docker Sandbox tools
Fine-Tuning & Distillation Support
Full Weights SFT, LoRA, QLoRA, DPO & GRPO RL (Unsloth / Axolotl / Llama-Factory)
Multimodal Tokenization Billing
Text BPE (~4 chars/token)
Weights Precision & Quantization
BF16 / FP16, FP8 Dynamic, INT4 AWQ / GPTQ, GGUF (Q4_K_M / Q8_0)
Minimum GPU VRAM Requirement
217 GB VRAM (4-bit Quantized) · 753 GB VRAM (Native BF16)
Supported Inference Engines
vLLM, SGLang, Ollama, llama.cpp, TensorRT-LLM, HuggingFace TGI
System Card & Safety Framework
Open-Weights System Card + Customizable Guardrail Layer (Llama Guard / ShieldGemma)
Enterprise Compliance (SOC2 / HIPAA / ZDR)
100% Air-Gapped On-Premises / Private VPC · Full HIPAA, GDPR & SOC2 Control
Engineering & Pricing Workbench

GLM-5.2 Cost, Context, Hardware & API Integration

500 / day
4,000 tok
1,000 tok
Conversation Depth (History Re-billing):1 Turn (Single-Shot)
50%
Estimated Monthly API Cost (30 Days)
Free ($0)
Subscription ($20/mo) vs API

Open-weights or free-tier model: $0 API license cost when self-hosted.

Same Monthly Workload Cost Across Popular Reference Models

GLM-5.2 (Active)
$0.00
/ month
Gemini 2.5 Flash
$18.00
/ month
DeepSeek V3
$32.70
/ month
GPT-4o
$300.00
/ month
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
$405.00
/ month

Live Prompt Paste Tokenizer & Cost Counter

Paste real system instructions, JSON schemas, or code to measure BPE token counts across tokenizers.

Chars / Words
175 / 24
OpenAI o200k
~46 tok
Claude BPE
~49 tok
Llama / DeepSeek
~51 tok

Hybrid Prompt Routing Cascade Simulator

Route routine queries to a fast lightweight model ($0.15/1M) and escalate only complex reasoning turns to GLM-5.2:

Cascaded Monthly Bill:$13.50/mo
This model is already priced at or below the fast router baseline.

Benchmark Scores & 6-Axis Capability Radar

Benchmark Encyclopedia
Coding (78)Reasoning (85)Knowledge (87)Speed (40)Context (100)Cost Value (98)
GLM-5.22026 Frontier Median
SWE-bench Verified
67.5%
GPQA Diamond
73.5%
MMLU-Pro
87%
HumanEval
96%
Chatbot Arena Elo
1440pts

Strengths

  • Fenêtre de contexte de 1M et capacité de sortie maximale de 32K tokens (SWE-bench Verified 67.5% · GPQA Diamond 73.5%)
  • Débit rapide de 60 tokens/seconde avec une latence au premier token (TTFT) de 650 ms
  • Poids ouverts (350B MoE) permettant un déploiement sur site ou cloud privé via vLLM, SGLang ou Ollama

Limitations & Trade-offs

  • Nécessite des serveurs GPU dotés de suffisamment de mémoire VRAM pour l’inférence locale à pleine précision
  • Sur les problèmes de recherche fondamentale très complexes, les modèles de raisonnement lourd restent supérieurs

Editorial Assessment

Alliant un indice d’intelligence de 91/100, un contexte de 1M et un débit de 60 tok/s, GLM-5.2 s’impose comme une valeur sûre de la gamme Zhipu AI.

Best for: Conçu pour l’auto-hébergement sur infrastructure privée, le fine-tuning et la souveraineté des données, l’intégration RAG et les pipelines de production évolutifs.

Frequently Asked Questions about GLM-5.2

How much does the GLM-5.2 API cost per 1M tokens?+

GLM-5.2 by Zhipu AI is priced at $0 per 1M input tokens and $0 per 1M output tokens. With prompt caching enabled, cached input tokens cost $0 per 1M tokens, and asynchronous Batch API requests receive a 0% discount.

Should I use a $20/month subscription or the GLM-5.2 pay-as-you-go API?+

A flat $20/month consumer subscription is predictable for daily interactive chat and manual coding. However, if you are building software, running automated workflows, or sending low-to-moderate volume with prompt caching enabled, the pay-as-you-go API is typically far more cost-effective and offers higher rate limits without manual UI caps.

How many words and pages fit in GLM-5.2's context window?+

GLM-5.2 features a 1M tokens context window, which equals approximately 750,000 English words or ~2,000 standard single-spaced pages in a single prompt. Its maximum output generation per turn is 32,000 tokens.

Can I run GLM-5.2 locally on my own GPU (Open Weights)?+

Yes, GLM-5.2 (350B MoE) releases open weights that can be self-hosted locally or on private cloud GPUs using vLLM, Ollama, SGLang, or llama.cpp.

Does Zhipu AI train on data sent to the GLM-5.2 API, and is commercial use allowed?+

100% Isolated when self-hosted on private GPUs or VPC. License tier: Open-Weights Research & Commercial License. Full commercial ownership of generated outputs. Supported deployment channels include: Self-Hosted GPU (vLLM / Ollama), Private VPC, or Managed Serverless API.

How does GLM-5.2 perform on coding and reasoning benchmarks?+

GLM-5.2 achieves a composite Intelligence Index of 91/100, scoring 67.5% on SWE-bench Verified, 73.5% on GPQA Diamond, 87% on MMLU-Pro, and 1440 pts on Chatbot Arena Elo.

What is GLM-5.2 best used for?+

GLM-5.2 is best suited for: Conçu pour l’auto-hébergement sur infrastructure privée, le fine-tuning et la souveraineté des données, l’intégration RAG et les pipelines de production évolutifs.. Assessment: Alliant un indice d’intelligence de 91/100, un contexte de 1M et un débit de 60 tok/s, GLM-5.2 s’impose comme une valeur sûre de la gamme Zhipu AI.

Les scores de benchmarks, tarifs par token et limites évoluent rapidement. Vérifiez toujours les spécifications actuelles sur la documentation officielle du fournisseur.

Sources: Zhipu AI Official Technical Whitepaper & Hugging Face↗