Claude Opus 5 vs
GLM-5.2

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Models in this comparison

Provider identity and evidence state stay balanced across the pair.

A

Anthropic

Claude Opus 5

Model type
Proprietary
Evidence state
Supported evidence
Published context
Not verified
VS
Z
Model type
Open Weight
Evidence state
Estimated evidence
Published context
1,000,000

Key implications

Insufficient shared-metric coverage. Each finding is tied to a published metric, price, context, or modality fact.

  1. Input API price: GLM-5.2 has the lower verified rate ($1.4 / 1M tokens vs $5 / 1M tokens).
  2. Output API price: GLM-5.2 has the lower verified rate ($4.4 / 1M tokens vs $25 / 1M tokens).

Shared metric view

A radar is shown only when at least four compatible supported score metrics are published.

Comparable metric detail

  • AgenticClaude Opus 5: 80.13 · GLM-5.2: 58.15
  • CodingClaude Opus 5: 78.41 · GLM-5.2: 64.95
  • KnowledgeClaude Opus 5: 97 · GLM-5.2: 81.2
  • MathClaude Opus 5: Unavailable · GLM-5.2: 80.7
  • MultimodalGroundedClaude Opus 5: 85.9 · GLM-5.2: Unavailable
  • ReasoningClaude Opus 5: 83.5 · GLM-5.2: Unavailable
  • OverallClaude Opus 5: 83.06 · GLM-5.2: 63.4

Source metrics

Friendly metric names and published units stay visible. Missing measurements remain unavailable rather than becoming a score.

Source metric comparison
MetricUnitClaude Opus 5GLM-5.2
Agenticscore80.1358.15
Codingscore78.4164.95
Knowledgescore9781.2
MathscoreUnavailable80.7
MultimodalGroundedscore85.9Unavailable
Reasoningscore83.5Unavailable
Overallscore83.0663.4

Agentic

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
80.13
GLM-5.2
58.15

Coding

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
78.41
GLM-5.2
64.95

Knowledge

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
97
GLM-5.2
81.2

Math

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
Unavailable
GLM-5.2
80.7

MultimodalGrounded

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
85.9
GLM-5.2
Unavailable

Reasoning

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
83.5
GLM-5.2
Unavailable

Overall

Unit
score
Claude Opus 5
83.06
GLM-5.2
63.4

Pricing and context

Verification is shown beside each selected route. Missing facts remain Not verified.

Route pricing and context comparison
FieldUnitClaude Opus 5GLM-5.2
Input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$5$1.4
Cached input API priceUSD / 1M tokens$0.5Not verified
Output API priceUSD / 1M tokens$25$4.4
Route contexttokens1,000,0001,000,000
Input modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified
Output modalitiespublished listNot verifiedNot verified

Input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
$5
GLM-5.2
$1.4

Cached input API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
$0.5
GLM-5.2
Not verified

Output API price

Unit
USD / 1M tokens
Claude Opus 5
$25
GLM-5.2
$4.4

Route context

Unit
tokens
Claude Opus 5
1,000,000
GLM-5.2
1,000,000

Input modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Opus 5
Not verified
GLM-5.2
Not verified

Output modalities

Unit
published list
Claude Opus 5
Not verified
GLM-5.2
Not verified

Evidence provenance

Source records, route identity, timestamps, and methodology are consolidated here without declaring either model a winner.

Publication time
Aug 30, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC
Freshness
Stale — Published weekly benchmark evidence has not refreshed within 8 days.
Methodology
benchlm: benchlm_raw_composite
Model records
  • Claude Opus 5 — source benchlm · artifact models · model claude-opus-5
  • GLM-5.2 — source benchlm · artifact models · model glm-5-2
Selected price routes
  • Claude Opus 5 — route benchlm:claude-opus-5 · source benchlm · provider anthropic
  • GLM-5.2 — route benchlm:glm-5-2 · source benchlm · provider z-ai

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