Across 39 shared benchmarks, GLM-5.2 scores higher on 7 and Qwen3.8 Max Preview on 32. The widest gap is Agents' Last Exam, where Qwen3.8 Max Preview scores 52.4 against 23.8. GLM-5.2 is the cheaper of the two on tracked API pricing ($1.40 against $2.00 per million input tokens).
Best tracked score per model per benchmark (default configuration; source-attributed). ↓ marks lower-is-better metrics. Open either model for its full surface, provenance and pricing. Quoted rates are the price-setter row we currently track for each model — its direct or vendor-official listing where one exists (zai-official, alibaba-official), otherwise the lowest tracked offer.