They have a vision MCP to make up for the model itself not having the capability natively: https://docs.z.ai/devpack/mcp/vision-mcp-server

I also found their web search to be mostly okay.

Furthermore, in case this is of interest to anyone, if you use their ZCode harness then you get bigger Coding Plan quotas: https://zcode.z.ai/en

Used it for a bit, it sits somewhere between OpenCode Desktop (still new but nice) and Claude Desktop (recent versions are good).

As for GLM 5.2 as a model - with max thinking it’s generally satisfactory, somewhere between Sonnet 5 and Opus 4.8, better than DeepSeek V4 Pro for sure.

Pricing wise, the subscription doesn’t seem as good as expected. I spent like 60% of the weekly limits of the Pro (50 USD) plan in one day, only because each 5 hour limit only gave me 20% to spend, otherwise it’d be 80-100%. Not even doing anything crazy, just parallel long form work on 2 projects with about 96% cache rate and at most 3 parallel code review sub-agents.

Their Max (100 USD) subscription would last me the whole week, but so does Anthropic for the same money and so would OpenAI. Off-peak is more palatable but I can’t just twiddle my thumbs at 9 AM to 1 PM local time.

Proper savings would show up with the Max plan and yearly billing, but that’s more of a tough sell.

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ryukoposting 15 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Not even doing anything crazy, just parallel long form work on 2 projects... and at most 3 parallel code review sub-agents.

I had to read this sentence twice.

	▲	KronisLV 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I had to read this sentence twice. Heh, I mean I'm not running Gas Town: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d... so as far as AI stuff go, I'd assume that I'm not too much of an outlier. Either way, wrote about my experiences with GLM Coding Subscription a bit more on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/z-ai-s-glm-5-2-is-a-great-model... I do suspect that there's plenty of people who'd use way fewer tokens.

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esafak a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They also have GLM-5V-Turbo. https://docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5v-turbo

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zackify a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I switched to yearly Cline pass because it was too cheap haha

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richardfey a day ago | parent [-]

I can't find on their website some indication of what kind of usage I can get out it, otherwise I'd be interested.

	▲	zackify a day ago \| parent [-]
		$6 a month I plan to use deepseek v4 flash mainly which should provide closer to 5x the usage on the cheaper ones but no set number