Model comparison

GLM-5.2 vs Grok 4 Heavy

GLM-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#38); Grok 4 Heavy does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 0 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.2 Z.ai (Zhipu)

50.9

Rank #38 Confirmed

Grok 4 Heavy xAI

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Unranked

Summary

  • GLM-5.2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-5.2 and Grok 4 Heavy specifications
GLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)xAI
Noometry Index50.9—
Released2026-06-132025-07-10
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.40—
Output $ / M tokens$4.40—
Results tracked501

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 50.9 (#37), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
DeepSWE43.8%—
FrontierCode24.5%—
LMArena WebDev1604—
SciCode50.5%—
WeirdML70.1%—
LMArena Coding1484—
ALE-Bench1,047—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 31.6 (#63), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
τ²-bench Banking37.1%—
PostTrainBench31.7%—
GBAEval0%—
Vending-Bench 28,314—

Reasoning Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 42.1 (#46), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
ARC-AGI-222.8%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark62.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)74.3%—
ARC-AGI-177%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles21%—
EBR-Bench9.5%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1480—
Mystery Game Puzzles19%—
DTBench93.6%—
LMCA45.8%—
Surface Evolver Bench55.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.76—

Math Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 55.4 (#35), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Knowledge Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 57.1 (#36), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
GPQA Diamond91.9%—
SimpleQA Verified34.2%—
LMArena Expert1484—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 56.0 (#25), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Non-English1459—
LMArena Chinese1518—
LMArena French1476—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1451—
LMArena Korean1445—
LMArena Russian1467—
LMArena Spanish1477—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 77.1 (#32), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Instruction Following1465—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 45.3 (#43), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-5.2: 70.7 (#20), Grok 4 Heavy: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.2Grok 4 Heavy
LMArena Text1470—
LMArena Creative Writing1465—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1757—
EQ-Bench 41222—
LMArena Multi-Turn1468—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.2 better than Grok 4 Heavy?

GLM-5.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#38); Grok 4 Heavy does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.2 and Grok 4 Heavy share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.2 has 50 scored results on Noometry and Grok 4 Heavy has 1.

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