GLM 5.2 (Alibaba) API

Alibaba · serves glm-5.2

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Price verified 2026-09-03 (1 day ago) · sourcesources disagree

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Served via OpenRouter, pinned to Alibaba — the provider these prices are resolved from. Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Provider page.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "z-ai/glm-5.2",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    "provider": {"only": ["Alibaba"], "allow_fallbacks": false}
  }'

from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="...",  # OPENROUTER_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="z-ai/glm-5.2",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    extra_body={"provider": {"only": ["Alibaba"], "allow_fallbacks": false}},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

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