Comparing 2 models

Claude Opus 4.5 vs GLM 5.2

Facts first, then task-specific rankings. A highlighted cell is better only for that row, not universally.

metric
Model 1Claude Opus 4.5
Model 2GLM 5.2
Best for
Agentic Coding (#1)
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#1)
Provider
anthropic
z-ai
Context
200K
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$5
$0.81Best
Output / 1M
$25
$2.56Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
yesBest
Released
Nov 24, 2025
Jun 16, 2026