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GLM-5.2 (Max)

Model evaluation

Capability & preference

Human preference · Arena

Overall text preferences from head-to-head votes. Not factual accuracy or a task-success rate.

GLM-5.2 (Max) 1469.6 GLM-5.2 (Max) · 95% interval 1465.6–1473.7 · 53,702 votes · 2026-10-28

Recorded results

Only the same benchmark, version, workload, scenario and unit share a row. Missing results are not zero. System results include the full submitted hardware and software configuration.

Arena text preference / chinesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,523.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,513.34 – 1,533.46

3876 votes

Category
chinese
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / codinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,486.82 rating

Confidence interval: 1,480.82 – 1,492.83

14324 votes

Category
coding
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / creative_writinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,460.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,454.04 – 1,467.69

10646 votes

Category
creative_writing
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,474.94 rating

Confidence interval: 1,469.78 – 1,480.09

21897 votes

Category
english
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / exclude_tieshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,474.96 rating

Confidence interval: 1,469.75 – 1,480.16

39709 votes

Category
exclude_ties
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / experthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,488.47 rating

Confidence interval: 1,479.98 – 1,496.97

5595 votes

Category
expert
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / frenchhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,475.86 rating

Confidence interval: 1,461.14 – 1,490.59

2010 votes

Category
french
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / germanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,471.43 rating

Confidence interval: 1,451.67 – 1,491.18

966 votes

Category
german
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_promptshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,480.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,475.93 – 1,485.20

34803 votes

Category
hard_prompts
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / hard_prompts_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,481.45 rating

Confidence interval: 1,475.48 – 1,487.42

14418 votes

Category
hard_prompts_english
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operationshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,450.56 rating

Confidence interval: 1,443.92 – 1,457.20

10212 votes

Category
industry_business_and_management_and_financial_operations
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_mediahuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,448.04 rating

Confidence interval: 1,441.74 – 1,454.34

13277 votes

Category
industry_entertainment_and_sports_and_media
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_legal_and_governmenthuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,487.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,477.72 – 1,496.94

4327 votes

Category
industry_legal_and_government
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_life_and_physical_and_social_sciencehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,488.06 rating

Confidence interval: 1,481.09 – 1,495.02

8917 votes

Category
industry_life_and_physical_and_social_science
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_mathematicalhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,489.33 rating

Confidence interval: 1,477.96 – 1,500.69

2920 votes

Category
industry_mathematical
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_medicine_and_healthcarehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,475.02 rating

Confidence interval: 1,464.94 – 1,485.10

3933 votes

Category
industry_medicine_and_healthcare
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_software_and_it_serviceshuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,486.68 rating

Confidence interval: 1,481.40 – 1,491.97

20769 votes

Category
industry_software_and_it_services
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / industry_writing_and_literature_and_languagehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,461.40 rating

Confidence interval: 1,455.35 – 1,467.45

14305 votes

Category
industry_writing_and_literature_and_language
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / instruction_followinghuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,465.61 rating

Confidence interval: 1,460.10 – 1,471.11

18494 votes

Category
instruction_following
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / japanesehuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,450.01 rating

Confidence interval: 1,428.19 – 1,471.82

887 votes

Category
japanese
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / koreanhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,438.10 rating

Confidence interval: 1,418.70 – 1,457.49

1037 votes

Category
korean
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / longer_queryhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,479.00 rating

Confidence interval: 1,473.77 – 1,484.24

24397 votes

Category
longer_query
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / mathhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,483.71 rating

Confidence interval: 1,471.56 – 1,495.86

2423 votes

Category
math
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / multi_turnhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,469.05 rating

Confidence interval: 1,461.85 – 1,476.24

8490 votes

Category
multi_turn
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / non_englishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,458.23 rating

Confidence interval: 1,453.58 – 1,462.88

31793 votes

Category
non_english
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / overallhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,469.64 rating

Confidence interval: 1,465.59 – 1,473.69

53702 votes

Category
overall
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / polishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,456.65 rating

Confidence interval: 1,436.31 – 1,476.99

869 votes

Category
polish
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / russianhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,466.77 rating

Confidence interval: 1,458.79 – 1,474.75

6377 votes

Category
russian
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference
Arena text preference / spanishhuman preference · 2026-10-28 · rating

GLM-5.2 (Max)

1,477.69 rating

Confidence interval: 1,462.34 – 1,493.03

1651 votes

Category
spanish
Evaluated configuration
GLM-5.2 (Max)
Evaluation type
human preference

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Inference · memory estimate

GLM-5.2 (Max)

Not enough verified architecture information for a reliable VRAM estimate.

Capabilities

Model license
MIT