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GLM 5.2 Thinking
GLM-5.2 with thinking enabled for harder long-horizon coding, autonomous agent workflows, complex engineering optimization, and real-world development tasks.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Structured output
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- high · max
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.42
- Output
- $1.32
- Cache read
- $0.078
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 131.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.8K tokens
- Longer than 89% of 465 models
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Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
Intelligence Index
33.7
Tested at max reasoning effort
Better than 76% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
68.8Composite of the coding evaluations
Better than 66% of 168 scored models
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
28.4%Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
Better than 48% of 173 scored models
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
6.2%Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
Better than 48% of 173 scored models
AA-Briefcasev1.1
1,227 EloAgentic knowledge work, rated head to head
Better than 59% of 166 scored models
GDPval-AAv2.1
1,373 EloEconomically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
Better than 62% of 187 scored models
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
10.4%Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
Better than 43% of 171 scored models
AA-LCRv1.1
78.3%Reasoning across long documents
Better than 69% of 309 scored models
MLCR-AA
12.8%Long-context reasoning over medical records
Better than 57% of 121 scored models
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
41.1%Expert-level questions across academic fields
Better than 80% of 323 scored models
GPQA Diamond
89.5%Graduate-level science questions
Better than 73% of 291 scored models
IFBench
73.3%Following precise output instructions
Better than 82% of 215 scored models
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
1.0%Practical software engineering in a terminal
Better than 37% of 171 scored models
SciCode
51.2%Scientific computing in Python
Better than 57% of 174 scored models
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
50.8%Earlier terminal task suite
Better than 91% of 212 scored models
τ²-Bench Telecom
99.1%Tool use in a customer-support simulation
Better than 99% of 214 scored models
AA-LCR (unversioned)
78.3%Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
Better than 69% of 309 scored models
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. GLM 5.2 Thinking was tested at max reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- #18Industry Legal And Government1491.1
- #16Spanish1478.5
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- #7FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3)59.2%
- #3SWE-bench Verified78.7%
- #6GPQA Diamond91.9%
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 108.8 tok/s
- Faster than 66% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 1.8 s
- Quicker than 82% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 57.6%
- About $0.22 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.7%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "z-ai/glm-5.2:thinking",
"reasoning_effort": "high",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/glm-5.2:thinking",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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