GLM-5.2 Free Setup Guide — the genuinely free ways to run Z.ai GLM-5.2 (chat + free API), plus the paid Claude Code path

glm-5-2-free-setup.md GLM-5.2 Free Setup Guide GLM-5.2 is Z.ai's open-weights (MIT) flagship — 744B-MoE, a 1M-token context, and benchmarks within ~1 point of Claude Opus 4.8 on FrontierSWE. Here's how to actually put it to work, starting with the routes that cost nothing and need no credit card . 1. Free, zero setup — just chat