DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp vs GLM-5.2: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is developed by DeepSeek, while GLM-5.2 comes from Zhipu AI. GLM-5.2 was released in June 2026, and DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp followed 2 months later in August 2026. GLM-5.2 has a published size of about 753 billion parameters; DeepSeek has not disclosed the parameter count of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on DeepSWE, where DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp scores 59.3% against 46.2%; NL2Repo, where DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp scores 57.7% against 48.9%. Averaged across everything we track, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp sits at 50.4% and GLM-5.2 at 60.9%.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is the cheaper API at $0.22 per million input tokens and $0.66 per million output tokens, roughly 6 times cheaper than GLM-5.2 at $1.40 and $4.40. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp accepts text and images as input, while GLM-5.2 accepts text. On tooling, only GLM-5.2 supports function calling and only GLM-5.2 offers structured output.
| Characteristic | DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp | GLM-5.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | DeepSeek | Zhipu AI |
| Release Date | August 21, 2026 | June 16, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 753B |
| Multimodal | Yes | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 393K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.22 | $1.40 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.66 | $4.40 |
| Average Score | 50.4% | 60.9% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSWE | 59.3% | 46.2% |
| NL2Repo | 57.7% | 48.9% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.9% | 82.7% |
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Verdict
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp — 0.5, GLM-5.2 — 0.6.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is 6.6x cheaper: input $0.22/1M vs $1.40/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp is newer: released 8/21/2026 vs 6/16/2026.
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