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Claude Opus 4.6vsGLM-5.2
Claude Opus 4.6 leads 4 of 7 shared benchmarks. GLM-5.2 is 5.2x cheaper per token. Both offer a 1M-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
4 – 2
Claude Opus 4.6 leads · 1 tied
Cheaper per token
GLM-5.2
5.2x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · —
Anthropic · Z.ai
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-05
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
7 shared · 11 only Claude Opus 4.6 · 18 only GLM-5.2| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5.2 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 7 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 91.3% ↗ | 91.9% ↗epoch | -0.6 pt | GLM-5.2 |
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% ↗matharena | 90% ↗matharena ⚠ | +6.7 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 26.8% ↗epoch | 29.3% ↗epoch | -2.5 pt | GLM-5.2 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 66% ↗epoch | 59.2% ↗epoch | +6.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.4% ↗epoch | 86.4% ↗epoch | +8 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% ↗epoch | 34.2% ↗epoch | +12.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 78.7% ↗epoch | 78.7% ↗epoch | 0 | Tie |
| Only Claude Opus 4.6 reports · 11 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1497.5 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 68.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 59.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 91.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 73.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 77.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 99.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only GLM-5.2 reports · 18 | ||||
| Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI) | not reported | 23.8% ↗ | — | — |
| AutomationBench v1.0.6 | not reported | 26.2% ↗ | — | — |
| CyberGym | not reported | 77.2% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 46.2% ↗ | — | — |
| ExploitBench | not reported | 24.4% ↗ | — | — |
| ExploitGym 2h | not reported | 29 ↗ | — | — |
| ExploitGym 6h | not reported | 39 ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierSWE | not reported | 67.5% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | not reported | 1508 ↗ | — | — |
| HLE (with tools) | not reported | 54.7% ↗ | — | — |
| NL2Repo | not reported | 48.9% ↗ | — | — |
| PostTrainBench | not reported | 31.7% ↗ | — | — |
| ProgramBench (Almost Solved) | not reported | 9.5% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro | not reported | 62.1% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Marathon v1.1 | not reported | 19.4% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | not reported | 81% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | not reported | 4.6% ↗ | — | — |
| Toolathlon Verified | not reported | 59.9% ↗ | — | — |
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 Claude Opus 4.6 minus GLM-5.2 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | GLM-5.2 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | Tie |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 131K tokens | GLM-5.2 |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $1.4 ↗ | GLM-5.2 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $4.4 ↗ | GLM-5.2 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $0.26 ↗ | GLM-5.2 |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $5.8 | GLM-5.2 |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Released | 2026-02-05 | 2026-06-24 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 26 | — |
Reliability
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