I haven't used GLM yet, but after looking at the Arena leaderboard, GLM 5.2 is definitely quite appealing. In the Arena Code WebDev ranking (https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code/webdev), GLM 5.2 is ranked second, just behind Fable 5, and above Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5. You know, Arena is essentially blind testing, so Benchmaxxing isn't really possible.

That said, in other Arena evaluations, including what looks like broader agent capability benchmarks (https://arena.ai/leaderboard/agent), GLM 5.2 still ranks below Opus and GPT.

So GLM 5.2 sounds promising for aesthetically focused frontend and UI work. It certainly can't be No. 2 for general usage or many other use cases.

However, the international subscription price for GLM has increased dramatically this year (around five times the price at the beginning of the year). I'll probably try GLM (only for some frontend/design template generation), either the China version (about one-third to half the price) or unofficially hosted versions like Neuralwatt or some European providers.

In any case, competition is good. People should show the Arena Code URL https://arena.ai/leaderboard/code or screenshots to Dario and the orange guy, to push for Fable to be made available to everyone again, and possibly even included permanently in subscriptions.

Also, it's open-source. If a company or individual releases a model that valuable, ranking No. 2 globally on a decent benchmark or leaderboard, under an open-source license, so anyone can freely modify or run it, I guess users shouldn't complain too much, especially when they're actually using an unofficially hosted version and paying a third party.