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GLM-5.3

Z.ai

Released
August 14, 2026
Data date
August 30, 2026

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Position within the category

This overview uses only published data from matching cohorts. Missing values never change a rank.

The index averages rank percentiles from 4 documented comparison cohorts. Only models with complete coverage receive a position.

Position
Rank 14 of 26
Index score
54.8 / 100
Coverage
4 / 4

Leaderboard

1Claude Opus 588.9 / 100
2Gemini 3.8 Flash88.5 / 100
3Claude Fable 583.2 / 100
13GPT-5.557.2 / 100
14GLM-5.3, Current model54.8 / 100
15Grok 4.546.2 / 100
25MiMo-V2.5-Pro12.5 / 100
Source: Vals AI, GPQA DiamondSource: Vals AI, Vibe Code Bench v1.1Source: Vals AI, Terminal-Bench 2.1Source: Vals AI, Finance Agent (v2)

Profile

Specifications and access

Published information about this model. Unknown values are not estimated.

Model type
Open weightsSource
Parameters
744BSource
Active parameters
40BSource
Context window
1,000,000 tokensSource
Notes
Released on August 14, 2026. Same base as GLM-5.2 with 744B total and 40B active parameters. The weights are available from Z.ai on Hugging Face.Source

Pricing

Published prices

Prices remain tied to their documented unit and source.

API input
$1.4 per 1M tokensSource
API output
$4.4 per 1M tokensSource
Cache read
$0.26 per 1M tokensSource

Head-to-head comparisons

Compare this model

Each matchup compares this model with exactly one other model from the same category.

GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Fable 5.1
GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Mythos 5.1
GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Opus 5
GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Fable 5
GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Sonnet 5
GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Mythos 5
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-6 Astra
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.6 Terra
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.6 Luna
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.5
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.4
GLM-5.3 vs. GPT-5.4 mini
GLM-5.3 vs. Gemini 3.8 Flash
GLM-5.3 vs. Gemini 3.7 Flash
GLM-5.3 vs. Gemini 3.6 Flash
GLM-5.3 vs. Gemini 3.5 Flash
GLM-5.3 vs. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GLM-5.3 vs. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
GLM-5.3 vs. Muse Spark 1.3
GLM-5.3 vs. Grok 4.6
GLM-5.3 vs. Grok 4.5
GLM-5.3 vs. Grok 4.3
GLM-5.3 vs. DeepSeek-V4-Pro
GLM-5.3 vs. DeepSeek-V4-Flash
GLM-5.3 vs. Kimi K3
GLM-5.3 vs. Kimi K2.6
GLM-5.3 vs. GLM-5.3-Flash
GLM-5.3 vs. GLM-5.2
GLM-5.3 vs. GLM-5.1
GLM-5.3 vs. Qwen 3.8 Max 0902
GLM-5.3 vs. Mistral Large 3
GLM-5.3 vs. Mistral Medium 3.5
GLM-5.3 vs. MiMo-V2.5
GLM-5.3 vs. MiMo-V2.5-Pro

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Evidence

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