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Snowflake CEO finds GLM-5.2 competitive with Opus 4.7 at a fraction of the cost
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 matches Claude Opus 4.7 performance on coding benchmarks at one-fifth the cost per token despite higher token consumption.
Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nearly matches Claude Opus 4.7 in a Snowflake benchmark with 103 coding tasks at one-fifth the cost per output token. But the Chinese model burns through nearly twice as many tokens per task. Still, that pricing gap is putting real pressure on Anthropic and OpenAI, and could rattle the valuations of Western AI labs.
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