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DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale vs GLM 5.2

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 5.2 wins 3 of 3 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed.

Category leads
speed·GLM 5.2
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
#6 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
GLM 5.2
#11 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
3.2x better value than GLM 5.2
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
97.8 pts/$
$0.80/M
GLM 5.2
30.5 pts/$
$2.50/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
DeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeGLM 5.2
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
GLM 5.2 leads by +43.1
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
0.0
GLM 5.2
43.1
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
GLM 5.2 leads by +30.9
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
37.9
GLM 5.2
68.8
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
GLM 5.2 leads by +21.7
DeepSeek V3.2 Speciale
29.4
GLM 5.2
51.1
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V3.2 SpecialeGLM 5.2
Artificial Analysis · Agentic Index
Artificial Analysis Agentic Index · a composite score measuring how well a model performs in agentic workflows · multi-step tool use, planning, error recovery, and autonomous task completion. Aggregates results from multiple agentic benchmarks including SWE-bench, tool-use tests, and planning evaluations. The canonical single-number metric for "how good is this model as an agent?"
0.043.1
Artificial Analysis · Coding Index
Artificial Analysis Coding Index · a composite score that aggregates performance across multiple coding benchmarks into a single index. Tracks code generation quality, debugging ability, multi-language competence, and real-world software engineering tasks. Used by Artificial Analysis to rank model coding capability in a normalized, comparable format. Useful for developers choosing between models for coding-heavy workloads.
37.968.8
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
29.451.1
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V3.2 Speciale$0.40$1.20164K tokens (~82 books)$6.00
z-ai logoGLM 5.2$1.00$4.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$17.50