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GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2

Still the GLM to choose when the licence matters most: MIT, a million tokens, no conditions.

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GLM-5.2

The read

GLM-5.2 made the open-versus-closed argument concrete in the summer: close to the closed flagships on coding and reasoning, a million tokens of context, and weights under MIT with no user threshold or field-of-use clause. GLM-5.3 has since improved on it, but under Zhipu's own licence rather than MIT, which keeps 5.2 relevant for anyone who needs the plainest possible terms on a model this capable. You can run it, tune it and ship it without sending a byte to anyone.

Where it shines

  • MIT licence with no user-count or field-of-use restrictions
  • Million-token context on weights you can hold yourself
  • Shares its base model with the stronger GLM-5.3

Worth knowing first

  • GLM-5.3 is stronger, under a less permissive licence
  • Serving it well still needs serious GPU capacity

Index score

87.1

Provisional. This score is read from the product's public capability, not from the one-prompt rebuild the fully reviewed entries went through, so treat it as a placing rather than a verdict.

Craft84
Speed82
Control95
Value92
Rank
13 of 73
Builds
LLMs
Category
Open weights
Output
MIT-licensed weights, plus a hosted API
Pricing
Free tier
Best for
Capable open work where the licence has to be MIT

Scores are our own editorial judgement, weighted craft 55, speed 10, control 15 and value 20.

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