Use Exa search with GLM-5.2

GLM-5.2 searches the web through Exa with one tool entry, "engine": "exa". GLM-5.2 has no search of its own, so this is how it reads the web.

Use

Exa searchwithin

Add Exa search to GLM-5.2

Set up with agents

Paste this into your coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and more) and it will set up and build with Opper for you.

Get your API key

In your code

1curl https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat/chat/completions \
2  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPPER_API_KEY" \
3  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
4  -d '{"model": "alibaba:global/glm-5.2",
5       "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "What changed in the news today?"}],
6       "tools": [{"type": "opper:web_search", "engine": "exa"}]}'

Where you can run it

GLM-5.2 runs Exa search on the routes below. One route also sells flex and priority processing: the same model at another price, picked per request with service_tier. How service tiers work.

Provider	Region	Training	Input	Output	Cache read
GreenPT	EU	No	$1.23	$4.92	$0.31	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Inceptron	EU	No	$1.25	$4.39	$0.20	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Lyceum	EU	No	$1.50	$4.50	$0.38	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Mistral	EU	No	$1.54	$4.84	$0.15	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Regolo	EU	No	$2.24	$5.82	Input price	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Scaleway	EU	No	$2.01	$6.16	Input price	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
TensorX	EU	No	$1.50	$4.50	$0.38	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Arcee	US	No	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
DeepInfra	US	No	$0.75	$2.40	$0.14
DigitalOcean	US	No	$0.70	$2.20	$0.10	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Morph	US	No	$0.15	$4.40	$0.04	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Novita	US	No	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Alibaba Cloud	Multi	No	$1.20	$4.20	Input price	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Baidu Qianfan	Multi	—	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
BytePlus	Multi	No	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Nebius	Multi	No	$1.40	$4.40	Input price	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Tencent Cloud	Multi	No	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route
Z.ai	Multi	No	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26	Not offered on this route	Not offered on this route

The model

GLM-5.2

by Z.ai

GLM-5.2 by Z.ai is a 744B open-weight (MIT) mixture-of-experts coding model with a 1M-token context, IndexShare sparse attention, and selectable thinking-effort levels.