Head-to-head
DeepSeek-V4 vs GLM-5.2
DeepSeek-V4 leads: the AI models rank it above its rival on 1 of the 1 leaderboard they share. Based on how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini & Grok rank both across the leaderboard they share — re-polled weekly, reasoning shown verbatim.
| Leaderboard | DeepSeek-V4 | GLM-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Best open-weight LLM | #1 / 13 | #2 / 13 |
Why the models rank DeepSeek-V4 — on best open-weight llm
“Offers frontier-level intelligence for coding, reasoning, and agentic workflows with a dual Thinking/Non-Thinking mode under a permissive MIT license, while dramatically reducing KV cache usage.”
Why the models rank GLM-5.2 — on best open-weight llm
“Best overall balance of frontier-grade coding, reasoning, tool use, long-horizon agent work, and low-cost hosted access; narrowly leads DeepSeek-V4-Pro for application development.”
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