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Comment by razfar | original | ZCode – Harness for GLM-5.2
[−]razfar · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:00 UTC · link
For anyone who uses GPT-5.5/Codex as their daily driver, how does GLM-5.2/ZCode compare, esp in a codebase already set up for agentic coding?
[−]ramon156 · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:08 UTC · link
TLDR GLM will take a lot longer to do a task, and maybe spend more tokens depending how complex it is

Its a hell of a lot cheaper though, so for me its worth it. I have more claude experience though, and I would say its almost en par with Opus 4.1

[−]redox99 · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:19 UTC · link
It's cheaper if you pay API prices. If you pay a gpt sub then codex is much much cheaper.
[−]gpt5 · 2026-07-02 Thu 06:19 UTC · link
GLM 5.2 is in an uncanny valley where it's too big to run at home, too expensive and slow in comparison to similarly capable model (a good chart here - https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/), and that's just comparing API prices.

When looking at subscription offering by Anthropic and OpenAI, it's not even comparable, as a Codex $200 subscription can easily use a billion tokens per week on GPT 5.5 high/xhigh.

It's an interesting model from the perspective of being the most capable open weight model. But it doesn't have a solid place in this marketplace right now.

[−]razfar · 2026-07-02 Thu 07:56 UTC · link
Thanks, that DeepSWE comparison is really useful. Yeah the Codex $100 plan with xHigh reasoning is very practical and cost efficient.