Databricks benchmarks coding agents: pi-coding-agent cheaper, GLM 5.2 matches Opus
Databricks published a benchmark of coding agents on its multi-million-line codebase, reporting that its internal pi-coding-agent is up to 2x cheaper than Claude Code or Codex while achieving higher pass rates. The study also found that GLM 5.2 performs on par with Opus 4.8 high and exceeds GPT 5.5 high and xhigh.