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GLM-5.2 vs MiniMax M3: Complete Comparison
GLM-5.2 and MiniMax M3 are open-weight Chinese frontier candidates with one-million-token context windows.
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Choose GLM-5.2 when
Open-weight reasoning, coding, and agent workloads.
Choose MiniMax M3 when
Multimodal agents, computer use, and coding workflows.
Overview
GLM-5.2 and MiniMax M3 are open-weight Chinese frontier candidates with one-million-token context windows. Choose GLM-5.2 for its MIT license, text reasoning, coding, and MoE deployment path; choose MiniMax M3 when native image and video understanding or computer-use workflows are central. Both require serious serving and long-context evaluation.
Recommendation
GLM-5.2 and MiniMax M3 are open-weight Chinese frontier candidates with one-million-token context windows.
Limitations and trade-offs
A large context window is not evidence of uniform recall. Self-hosting cost and risk depend heavily on the serving stack.