Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 ranks first on 3 of the 206 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Z.ai Released June 16th, 2026 Family GLM-5 The lab's model card Compare with others
208
Benchmarks with a score
3
Ranked first, out of five or more models
11
In the top three
Z.ai Jun 2026

GLM-5.2

Open weights Flagship

153.0 #54 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 154.4 #64 of 404
  • SWE-bench Verified 78.7% #5 /32
  • DeepSWE 43.8% #24 /28
  • AutomationBench 7.76% #30 /42

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
StudyArena Text 1,312 #5 of 85 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 3 1,563 #6 of 78 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,475 #31 of 335 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 54.7% #27 of 154 Lab model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 77.9 #23 of 119 Official leaderboard
Creative Writing v3 76.6 #26 of 120 Official leaderboard
Wer wird Millionär? LLM Benchmark 91111.0 #20 of 77 Official leaderboard
SEA-HELM 74.0 #19 of 71 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 73.2 #11 of 40 Official leaderboard
Phare 69.9% #21 of 62 Official leaderboard
Antidote 1,040 #15 of 36 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 0.41 #21 of 50 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 46.5% #20 of 47 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,186 #33 of 77 Official leaderboard
Hemingway-bench 1,036 #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 74.3% #54 of 103 Official leaderboard
EQ-Bench 4 1,208 #18 of 32 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 31% #77 of 129 Official leaderboard
HLE Extended 25.8% #19 of 31 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 34.2% #63 of 94 Epoch AI run
BullshitBench 18.2% #74 of 107 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 42.7% #39 of 49 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
IMO-AnswerBench 91% #1 of 37 Lab model card
GPQA Diamond 91.9% #31 of 229 Epoch AI run
DTBench 93.6% #32 of 180 Official leaderboard
HMMT Nov 2025 94.4% #6 of 28 Lab model card
CritPt 20.9% #3 of 13 Lab model card
MathArena (Apex, IMO, USAMO) 19.8% #15 of 47 Official leaderboard
NatureBench 13.3% #6 of 18 Official leaderboard
ResearchClawBench 20.7 #8 of 23 Official leaderboard
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 89.5% #8 of 23 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 35% #22 of 59 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 86.4% #84 of 212 Epoch AI run
HMMT 2026 92.4% #13 of 31 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 58.8% #47 of 106 Official leaderboard
BixBench3 46.3 #9 of 20 Official leaderboard
Surface Evolver Bench 55.6% #12 of 25 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 59.2% #42 of 86 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 29.3% #34 of 68 Official leaderboard
MathArena Apex Shortlist 68.1% #19 of 38 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 77% #50 of 95 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 22.8% #52 of 98 Official leaderboard
ASI-Bench 35.6 #7 of 11 Official leaderboard
Prophet Arena 85.3 #20 of 24 Official leaderboard
AIME 2026 90% #28 of 31 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 64.6% #29 of 29 Official leaderboard
FrontierChallenge 3.10% #11 of 11 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
PostTrainBench 34.3% #1 of 23 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified 78.7% #5 of 32 Epoch AI run
Data Agent Benchmark 96.7% #3 of 18 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,283 #20 of 118 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 70.1% #20 of 112 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,593 #21 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
DesignArena Website 1,278 #31 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,288 #29 of 139 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas 48.1% #5 of 22 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,269 #31 of 136 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,278 #33 of 143 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,608 #32 of 128 Official leaderboard
Monthly-SWEBench 65% #3 of 12 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,257 #40 of 143 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE v1 67.5% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro 62.1% #24 of 81 Lab model card
EvoCode-Bench v2 16.2% #4 of 13 Official leaderboard
SWE-rebench 62.9% #4 of 13 Official leaderboard
Claw-SWE-Bench 74.3% #5 of 16 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Full Stack 1,219 #16 of 49 Official leaderboard
FrogsGame post-training task 2.40% #6 of 17 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,197 #38 of 103 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Game Dev 1,158 #10 of 27 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,685 #48 of 126 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon 13% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,187 #32 of 74 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 48.9% #13 of 30 Lab model card
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,204 #23 of 53 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 37.9% #34 of 78 Official leaderboard
AndroidBench 72.2% #14 of 32 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench almost solved 8.50% #11 of 25 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench tests passed 64.6% #11 of 25 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Codebase QnA Extended 16% #17 of 38 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Test Writing 41.5% #10 of 22 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 64% #58 of 120 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.1 31.7% #6 of 11 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Android (Kotlin) 1,169 #26 of 46 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas Refactoring 42.4% #10 of 17 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,156 #33 of 56 Official leaderboard
MLS-Bench 40.4% #9 of 15 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Science 31.9% #6 of 10 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified Extended 47.3% #27 of 44 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 37.4% #40 of 65 Official leaderboard
MirrorCode 36.7% #25 of 39 Epoch AI run
GameCraft-Bench 39.1% #10 of 15 Official leaderboard
ReactBench 27.2% #20 of 28 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.2 30.4% #15 of 21 Official leaderboard
Tencent WorkBuddy Bench 72.9% #11 of 14 Official leaderboard
GameDevBench 38.4% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
Senior SWE-Bench 17.9% #19 of 23 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 43.8% #24 of 28 Official leaderboard
Next.js Agent Evals 82% #12 of 14 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 0% #22 of 25 Official leaderboard
SWE-Together 55% #20 of 22 Official leaderboard
Doc2Harness 27.6% #18 of 19 Official leaderboard
GBAEval 0.02% #21 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE Refactor Bench 6.50% #8 of 8 Official leaderboard
LoopArena 24.2% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
Z.ai Code Bench 23.4% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard
ParallelKernelBench 4.60% #4 of 4 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ClawProBench 80% #1 of 49 Official leaderboard
GAIA 89% #2 of 64 Official leaderboard
PACT 1,566 #4 of 26 Official leaderboard
PinchBench 2.0 87% #10 of 57 Official leaderboard
Pencil Puzzle Bench 26.7% #12 of 53 Official leaderboard
LiveClawBench 72.9% #4 of 17 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 96% #10 of 32 Official leaderboard
CivBench 1,535 #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
LisanBench 1834.7 #45 of 133 Official leaderboard
WildClawBench 54.2% #11 of 31 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 82.7% #23 of 56 Lab model card
τ³-bench Banking 37.1% #11 of 25 Official leaderboard
Harbor-Index 9.80% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 59.9% #12 of 25 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 77.8% #18 of 37 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 4.76 #37 of 76 Official leaderboard
clembench 63.0 #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 50.3% #8 of 15 Official leaderboard
BrowseComp Extended 23% #23 of 42 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon 48.2% #16 of 29 Lab model card
Agent Arena 0.23% #31 of 56 Official leaderboard
DuetBench 1,009 #5 of 9 Official leaderboard
CEO-Bench $54,327 #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench (LHTB) 31.6% #15 of 25 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 19% #53 of 84 Epoch AI run
Chess Puzzles 22% #63 of 93 Epoch AI run
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 27.9% #31 of 44 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 7.76% #30 of 42 Official leaderboard
DiG-bench 15.2% #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
CAR-bench 43.3% #10 of 12 Official leaderboard
EBR-bench 9.52% #27 of 31 Epoch AI run
Terminal-Bench 3.0 4.59% #11 of 11 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CorpFin v2 66.1% #22 of 119 Official leaderboard
FORTE 76.9% #4 of 21 Official leaderboard
DesignArena PDF 1,243 #8 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $8,314 #16 of 67 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 84.1% #40 of 138 Official leaderboard
LEXam-hard 37.5% #5 of 15 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 7.08% #29 of 80 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 3.01 #7 of 19 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 73.3% #48 of 129 Official leaderboard
MerchantBench 42.3 #3 of 8 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 61.5% #33 of 76 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 83.5% #44 of 97 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 53.1% #31 of 65 Official leaderboard
Physical-Engineering's Last Exam 0.25 #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
CHI-Bench 18.7% #12 of 23 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,159 #19 of 36 Official leaderboard
JobBench 43.4% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
ProfBench 45.8% #41 of 72 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 49.7% #46 of 80 Official leaderboard
YC-Bench $1,013,158 #34 of 59 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 31.3% #54 of 93 Official leaderboard
MedCode 40.8% #57 of 96 Official leaderboard
DesignArena HTML Slides 1,071 #17 of 28 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 20.4% #20 of 31 Official leaderboard
prinzbench 30.0 #17 of 26 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 61.5% #48 of 71 Official leaderboard
CommerceAgentBench 46.7% #9 of 13 Official leaderboard
BankerToolBench v1.1 12.4% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 1.1 61.1% #46 of 65 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 45.2% #44 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
GDPevo 60.1% #3 of 4 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Spreadsheet 1,064 #28 of 35 Official leaderboard
TRLawBench 8.02 #28 of 34 Official leaderboard
FrontierFinance 42.8% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 76.5% #42 of 50 Official leaderboard
GDPval Extended 0.20% #38 of 43 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MineBench 1,547 #36 of 75 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 1,051 #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,585 #36 of 56 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
ABC Bench Fragment Design 99.8% #3 of 27 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 65.3% #13 of 86 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Screening Evasion 70.4% #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Liquid-Handling Robot 99.3% #7 of 34 Official leaderboard
CyberGym 90.8% #7 of 34 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 55.5% #19 of 90 Official leaderboard
CyberBench (Vals) 77.4% #7 of 26 Official leaderboard
Agentic BAIM-LLM Evaluation (ABLE) 76.7% #5 of 18 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Permit 99.7% #23 of 69 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 77.3 #65 of 185 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 59.6% #29 of 71 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 47% #36 of 74 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 32.6% #42 of 69 Official leaderboard
Dictatorship Eval 46.6% #13 of 20 Official leaderboard
DrugDiscoveryBench 36.2% #13 of 20 Official leaderboard
PatchEval 67% #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
PatchEval-Verified 67% #5 of 7 Official leaderboard
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 50% #33 of 46 Official leaderboard
ExploitGym 4.49% #13 of 18 Official leaderboard
GeneBench Pro 4.64% #9 of 12 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 48.7% #57 of 73 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 10.4 #25 of 29 Official leaderboard
dfbench 40.7% #16 of 18 Official leaderboard
SRE-Bench 0% #33 of 35 Official leaderboard
HackBench 32.3 #8 of 8 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMCA 45.8% #39 of 147 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 58.6 #44 of 151 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 37.4 #27 of 68 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 66.0 #68 of 152 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 51.9 #37 of 67 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 154.4, 1.4 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 14 capability results Z.ai reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 151.3 to 157.6. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 8 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
AIME 2026 99.2% AIME 2026 90% Leaderboard, max +9.2 pts
FrontierSWE v1 74.4% FrontierSWE (Dominance) 67.5% Leaderboard, mean, Claude Code +6.9 pts
DeepSWE 46.2% DeepSWE 43.8% Leaderboard, max, mini-swe-agent +2.4 pts
MCP Atlas 76.8% MCP-Atlas (Public Set) 77.8% Leaderboard −1.0 pts
GPQA Diamond 91.2% GPQA-Diamond 91.9% Epoch AI run, max −0.7 pts
HMMT 2026 92.5% HMMT Feb. 2026 92.4% Leaderboard, max Same
PostTrainBench 34.3% PostTrainBench 34.3% Leaderboard, max, Claude Code Same
SWE-Marathon 13% SWE-Marathon 13% Leaderboard, Claude Code Same

Z.ai's models over time

Z.ai's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-5 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-4.7

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.