GLM-5.2 vs DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 15 August 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
753.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
320 K
mit · commercial OK
deepseek-ai · B · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
170 K
mit · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5.2 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 753.3 B 685.4 B
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM DeepseekV32ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 163,840
Licence mit mit
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages 2 —
Downloads 30d 320,374 170,167
Downloads all time 5.1 M 1.4 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-06-16 2025-09-29
API input price / 1M tokens $0.006 $0.27
API output price / 1M tokens $6.80 $0.41
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $6.81 $0.68
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.005 —
AA Intelligence Index — —
AA Coding Index 68.8 —
AA Agentic Index 38.4 —
Max output tokens 943,718 147,456
API providers 24 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

GLM-5.2 $6.81
DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp $0.68

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp is 10.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.8 M170 K
GLM-5.2 DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,815.1 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
GLM-5.2 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 16,121.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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