GLM-5.2 cracks OpenCode top six

// 1d agoBENCHMARK RESULT

GLM-5.2 cracks OpenCode top six

Z.ai's new GLM-5.2 has jumped to #6 on OpenCode's weekly usage leaderboard, with OpenCode listing 457B tokens and 90,971 sessions after its June 13 release. The ranking adds real developer-usage momentum to a model already being discussed as one of the strongest open-weight coding LLMs.

// ANALYSIS

GLM-5.2's OpenCode climb matters because it shows developers are not just benchmarking the model, they are routing real coding-agent work through it.

–OpenCode reports GLM-5.2 as "new this week" with a 1M context window, 131K output, and #6 weekly usage rank
–Z.ai positions it as a 744B-A40B long-horizon coding model with major gains over GLM-5.1 on Terminal-Bench and SWE-bench Pro
–The model's MIT/open-weight availability makes its traction more threatening to closed coding stacks than another API-only leaderboard win would be
–The caveat is cost and token appetite: OpenCode shows roughly $1.83 per session, while independent testers note GLM-5.2 can spend heavily on long tasks

// TAGS

glm-5.2z-aillmopen-weightsai-codingcoding-agentbenchmarklong-context

DISCOVERED

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2026-06-20

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2026-06-20

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