GLM-5.2 Free
GLM-5.2 Free is Zhipu AI's language model with a 128K context window. A large-scale reasoning LLM from Z.ai with a 1M-token context window, suited for long-horizon agent workflows and project-level software engineering tasks.
Capabilities
Input1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
PDF·
Output1/5
Text✓
Image·
Audio·
Video·
Embedding·
Capabilities1/13
Reasoning✓
Adaptive Reasoning·
Function Calling·
Parallel Function Calling·
Structured Outputs·
Native JSON Schema·
Web Search·
URL Context·
Computer Use·
Code Execution·
File Search·
Prompt Caching·
Assistant Prefill·
Cheapest Instances to Run It
Cloud GPU instances that can host GLM-5.2 Free, ranked by cheapest on-demand price. The model needs about 1808 GB of GPU memory at FP16 precision (estimated from its parameter count), so treat the fit as guidance rather than a guarantee.
All clouds
FP16 (full precision)
US Dollar ($)
Instance | Cloud | GPU | VRAM | Price | Cheapest region |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| p6-b300.48xlarge |  AWS | 8× B300 | 2149 GB | $142.42/hr |
Versions
| Version | Released | Context | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.2 Fast | 1.0M | $2.10 | $6.60 | Available | |
| GLM-5.2 Free | 128K | — | — | Current | |
| GLM-5.2 | 1.0M | $0.700 | $2.20 | Available | |
| GLM-5V Turbo | 203K | $1.20 | $4.00 | Deprecating | |
| GLM-5 Turbo | 203K | $1.20 | $4.00 | Deprecating | |
| GLM-5.1 Non-Reasoning | — | — | — | — | Available |
| GLM-5 Non-Reasoning | — | — | — | — | Available |
| GLM-5 Code | — | 200K | $1.20 | $5.00 | Available |
| GLM-5.1 Fast | — | 203K | $2.80 | $8.80 | Available |
| GLM-5.1 NVFP4 MTP | — | 203K | $1.40 | $4.40 | Available |
| GLM-5.2 Fast Preview | — | — | $2.80 | $8.80 | Available |