Databricks Defaults to Chinese Model GLM 5.2, Matches Opus at $1.28/Task

Databricks defaulted to GLM 5.2 after it matched Opus 4.8 at $1.28/task vs $1.94. The move signals enterprises building custom benchmarks and multi-vendor AI stacks. Databricks benchmarked GLM 5.2 against Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on its own codebase and found them statistically tied. The Chinese open-source model costs $1.28 per task versus $1.94 for Opus. Key facts GLM 5.2 costs $1.28 per coding task vs Opus 4.8 at $1.94. Top tier pass rate: 82–90% across Opus 4.8, GLM 5.2, GPT 5.5. 61% of…