Model comparison

Aion 3.5 vs GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#38); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Aion 3.5 AionLabs

57.9

Unranked Sparse

GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)

50.9

Rank #38 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Aion 3.5 scores higher in 1 category and GLM-5.2 in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Aion 3.5 leads 74.9 to 70.7.
  • GLM-5.2 is cheaper at $1.40 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $6 for Aion 3.5.
  • GLM-5.2 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.
  • GLM-5.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Aion 3.5 and GLM-5.2 specifications
Aion 3.5GLM-5.2
ProviderAionLabsZ.ai (Zhipu)
Noometry Index57.950.9
Released—2026-06-13
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window262K1M
Max output33K131K
Input $ / M tokens$3$1.40
Output $ / M tokens$6$4.40
Results tracked150

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 50.9 (#37)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
SWE-bench Verified—78.7%
DeepSWE—43.8%
FrontierCode—24.5%
LMArena WebDev—1604
SciCode—50.5%
WeirdML—70.1%
LMArena Coding—1484
ALE-Bench—1,047

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 31.6 (#63)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
τ²-bench Banking—37.1%
PostTrainBench—31.7%
GBAEval—0%
Vending-Bench 2—8,314

Reasoning Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 42.1 (#46)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
ARC-AGI-2—22.8%
SimpleBench—58.8%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—62.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—74.3%
ARC-AGI-1—77%
CritPt—20.9%
Chess Puzzles—21%
EBR-Bench—9.5%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1480
Mystery Game Puzzles—19%
DTBench—93.6%
LMCA—45.8%
Surface Evolver Bench—55.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index—151.76

Math Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 55.4 (#35)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—59.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4—29.3%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—86.4%
ProofBench—35%
LMArena Math—1482

Knowledge Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#36)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
GPQA Diamond—91.9%
SimpleQA Verified—34.2%
LMArena Expert—1484

Multilingual Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 56.0 (#25)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
LMArena Non-English—1459
LMArena Chinese—1518
LMArena French—1476
LMArena German—1470
LMArena Japanese—1451
LMArena Korean—1445
LMArena Russian—1467
LMArena Spanish—1477

Instruction Following Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 77.1 (#32)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
LMArena Instruction Following—1465

Long Context Not comparable

Aion 3.5: —, GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
LMArena Longer Query—1479

Writing & Preference Aion 3.5 leads

Aion 3.5: 74.9, GLM-5.2: 70.7 (#20)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkAion 3.5GLM-5.2
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19291757
LMArena Text—1470
LMArena Creative Writing—1465
EQ-Bench 4—1222
LMArena Multi-Turn—1468

Frequently asked questions

Is Aion 3.5 better than GLM-5.2?

GLM-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#38); Aion 3.5 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Aion 3.5 or GLM-5.2?

GLM-5.2 is cheaper. It lists at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Aion 3.5 lists at $3 and $6.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.2 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do Aion 3.5 and GLM-5.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Aion 3.5 has 1 scored results on Noometry and GLM-5.2 has 50.

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