Zhipu Ships GLM 5.2 to All GLM Coding Plan Tiers With 1M-Token Context, No Benchmarks at Launch

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On June 13, Zhipu rolled GLM 5.2 out to all four GLM Coding Plan tiers (Lite, Pro, Max, Team) with a 1M-token context window and two thinking modes (High and Max), positioning it for long-horizon agentic coding. Notably, no independent benchmarks were published at release; the standalone API, Z.ai chatbot access, and MIT-licensed open weights are slated for the following week. The deploy-before-benchmark sequencing is unusual and signals confidence aimed at the coding-agent market where GLM 5.1 already claimed ~94% of Claude Opus 4.6's coding performance.