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Perplexity AI: GLM 5.2 is half the cost of Claude 3 Opus

Perplexity AI has released benchmark data comparing the cost-efficiency of Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus against GLM 5.2. Their findings indicate that GLM 5.2, when combined with an advisor, is approximately 2.1 times the cost of the baseline, whereas Claude 3 Opus is 6.1 times the cost. On average, GLM 5.2 demonstrated roughly half the cost of Opus across all tested benchmarks. AI

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Perplexity AI: GLM 5.2 is half the cost of Claude 3 Opus

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  1. X — Perplexity TIER_1 English(EN) · perplexity_ai ·

    We measured cost per task against GLM 5.2 as the baseline.

    We measured cost per task against GLM 5.2 as the baseline. On WANDR, GLM 5.2 + advisor runs at 2.1x versus Opus at 6.1x, averaging roughly half the cost of Opus across all benchmarks. https://t.co/gWWvIFRumS