[faxmeyourcode]

I feel like another comparison worth looking at is purely cost.

Capability per dollar is something I care about:

    Opus API    $5/$25
    Sonnet API  $5/$15
    Haiku API   $1/$5

    GLM 5.2 API $1.4/$4.4

So you're really getting near opus level capability for the price of haiku.

[cmrdporcupine]

Not really, GLM uses more tokens to get work done.

[throwawayffffas]

In the article, they claim GLM used almost half the tokens 131,000, and the cost is about a quarter. For the cost to be the same GLM would have to use 4-5 times more tokens.

[dymk]

By how much? At least TFA provided numbers for one example, and they disagree with you (by a lot).

[wiremine]

I ran a fairly large experiment last week, and the token usage wasn't bad at all. What softs of use cases are you seeing large token usage by GLM 5.2?

[w0m]

> are you seeing large token usage by GLM 5.2

the statement isn't "GLM 5.2 has large token usage", it's "GLM 5.2 has large token usage vs modern Opus".

I haven't used it, but this wouldn't surprise me. I see ~30% lower token usage for better results with Opus 4.8 vs 4.6 (and i had great results with 4.6)

[cmrdporcupine]

I'm comparing with GPT5.5 on Codex and it's not even a competition. GLM takes way longer and eats a lot of tokens getting work done, it's easy to rack up a big bill on openrouter. I tried the $20 plan from ollama, too, and ate through half a month of budget in a few hours and blew my daily limit twice and still had to get codex to complete it -- which it did with only 10% of my monthly limit remaining.

GLM is promising but it's pretty costly, all things considered.