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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ·Anthropic vs Z.ai

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — head-to-head comparison

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 profile Z.ai: GLM 5.2 profile All comparisons
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 — Anthropic
Quality
#13 of 65
86based on 5 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#299 of 353
36.7
Output tokens per second
Price
#484 of 525
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#372 of 412
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#189 of 574
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai
Quality
#8 of 65
91based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#79 of 353
103.0
Output tokens per second
Price
#347 of 525
$1.78
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.03 · Out $7.00
Cache hit price
#133 of 412
$0.033
per 1M tokens (−3%)
Context
#111 of 574
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 scores 86 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 scores 91 — a 4-point lead for Z.ai: GLM 5.2. They share 3 published evaluations, with Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 ahead on 2 and Z.ai: GLM 5.2 ahead on 1.

Blended pricing is $10.00 per 1M tokens for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 and $1.78 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2 — Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is about 5.6× cheaper.

Throughput is 37 tokens per second for Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 and 103 for Z.ai: GLM 5.2, with time to first token at 2.0s and 1.2s. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 accepts 1.00M tokens of context against 1.05M.

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 is proprietary; Z.ai: GLM 5.2 is open weights under Open weights (unrestricted). 42 tracked hosts serve one or both.

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At a glance
MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 86 based on 5 of 7 evaluations 91 based on 3 of 7 evaluations
Blended $/1M $10.00 $1.78
Output tok/s 37 103
Context window 1.00M 1.05M
Providers 5 37
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Known Good Index 86 91
Coding Index 92 —
Reasoning Index 77 —
Openness Index 5 60
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 · marker = Z.ai: GLM 5.2 · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond91 / 92
Mock AIME 2024–2593 / 86
SWE-bench Verified79 / 79

Right-hand figures read Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 / Z.ai: GLM 5.2. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 leads on 2 of 3, Z.ai: GLM 5.2 on 1.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Text Arena 1,497 1,470
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,497 1,475
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Input $/1M $5.00 $0.03
Output $/1M $25.00 $7.00
Blended $/1M $10.00 $1.78
Cache read $/1M $0.500 $0.033
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Context window 1.00M 1.05M
Max output tokens 128k 944k
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Speed & Latency

Mean throughput and time to first token across hosting providers, over successful measurements from the last 48 hours

Throughput and latency

Means across all tracked providers over successful measurements from the last 48 hours, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6Z.ai: GLM 5.2
Output tokens/s 37 103
Time to first token 2.0s 1.2s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

42 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 blendedAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 tok/s Z.ai: GLM 5.2 blendedZ.ai: GLM 5.2 tok/s
Amazon Bedrock · first party $10.00 36 — —
Google · first party $10.00 36 — —
Claude Platform on AWS $10.00 35 — —
Anthropic · first party $10.00 34 — —
Azure · first party $10.00 32 — —
Decart — — $2.90 394
CoreWeave — — $1.07 214
Nebius — — $2.15 183
Wafer — — $1.78 165
Together — — $2.15 150
Friendli — — $2.15 149
Reka · first party — — $1.60 149
BaseTen — — $2.15 147
Venice — — $2.15 130
Parasail — — $2.15 115
ModelRun — — $3.35 108
Inceptron — — $1.04 103
Crusoe — — $2.15 100
Mistral · first party — — $2.15 98
Ambient — — $0.95 96
DigitalOcean — — $1.07 89
Alibaba · first party — — $1.48 88
InferenceNet — — $2.08 87
Cloudflare — — $2.14 83
Baidu · first party — — $0.29 80
Makora — — $1.14 78
SiliconFlow — — $1.07 71
DeepInfra — — $0.70 67
Z.AI · first party — — $2.15 60
Io Net — — $1.33 56
Morph — — $1.41 53
StreamLake — — $0.43 53
AtlasCloud — — $1.44 50
GMICloud — — $2.15 50
Novita — — $1.00 39
Phala — — $1.70 37
Sail Research — — $1.16 37
Ionstream — — $2.15 30
AkashML — — $1.18 27
Chutes — — $1.93 4
Fireworks — — $2.15 —
Relace — — $1.30 —

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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