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GLM-5.2vsKimi K2 Thinking

GLM-5.2 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. GLM-5.2 has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
GLM-5.2 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
GLM-5.2
1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Z.ai · Moonshot AI
GLM-5.2
Z.ai · released 2026-06-24
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Context
1M
Max out
131K
Input /1M
$1.4 ↗
Output /1M
$4.4 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.26
Scores
53 · 12 core
Kimi K2 Thinking
Moonshot AI · released 2025-11-06
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Context
256K
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
17 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGLM-5.2Kimi K2 ThinkingΔEdge
Reported by both · 2
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)58.8% ↗39.6% ↗+19.2 ptGLM-5.2
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)70.1% ↗42.8% ↗+27.3 ptGLM-5.2
Only GLM-5.2 reports · 44
GPQA Diamond91.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
AIME 202690% ↗matharena ⚠not reported——
LMArena Elo1475.8 ↗not reported——
Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI)23.8% ↗not reported——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)45.2% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench v1.0.626.2% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)21% ↗epoch runnot reported——
CyberGym77.2% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.146.2% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)43.8% ↗not reported——
EBR-bench (Epoch AI run)9.5% ↗epoch runnot reported——
ExploitBench24.4% ↗not reported——
ExploitGym 2h29 ↗not reported——
ExploitGym 6h39 ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)29.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)59.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE67.5% ↗not reported——
GDPval-AA v21508 ↗not reported——
HLE (with tools)54.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)51.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)79.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)73.7% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)62.3% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)76.2% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)89.8% ↗not reported——
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)78.6% ↗not reported——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0348 ↗not reported——
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1605 ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)19% ↗epoch runnot reported——
NL2Repo48.9% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)86.4% ↗epoch runnot reported——
PostTrainBench31.7% ↗not reported——
ProgramBench (Almost Solved)9.5% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified34.2% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SWE-Bench Pro62.1% ↗not reported——
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run)78.7% ↗epoch runnot reported——
SWE-Marathon v1.119.4% ↗not reported——
SWE-rebench 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-01 (Nebius)62.9% ↗not reported——
tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra)37.1% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 2.181% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 3.04.6% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon Verified59.9% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)59.9% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)8313.78 ↗not reported——
Only Kimi K2 Thinking reports · 15
AIME25 (no tools)not reported94.5% ↗——
BrowseComp (w/ tools)not reported60.2% ↗——
BrowseComp-ZH (w/ tools)not reported62.3% ↗——
GPQA (no tools)not reported84.5% ↗——
HLE (Text-only) (no tools)not reported23.9% ↗——
HLE (Text-only) (w/ tools)not reported44.9% ↗——
HMMT25 (no tools)not reported89.4% ↗——
IMO-AnswerBench (no tools)not reported78.6% ↗——
LiveCodeBenchV6 (no tools)not reported83.1% ↗——
MMLU-Pro (no tools)not reported84.6% ↗——
Multi-SWE-bench (w/ tools)not reported41.9% ↗——
SciCode (no tools)not reported44.8% ↗——
SWE-bench Multilingual (w/ tools)not reported61.1% ↗——
SWE-bench Verified (w/ tools)not reported71.3% ↗——
Terminal-Bench (w/ simulated tools (JSON))not reported47.1% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GLM-5.2 minus Kimi K2 Thinking in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGLM-5.2Kimi K2 ThinkingEdge
Context window1M tokens256K tokensGLM-5.2
Max output131K tokens——
Input price / 1M$1.4 ↗——
Output price / 1M$4.4 ↗——
Cached input / 1M$0.26 ↗——
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$5.8——
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2026-06-242025-11-06—
Cited benchmark scores5317—
Reliability

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