GLM-5.3: Release Intelligence, Performance & Price
Model summary
Verbosity
The GLM-5.3 release offers 2 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across the 2 models.
- For intelligence, the top model of GLM-5.3 is GLM-5.3 (Max) at 45.
- For output speed, the fastest model is GLM-5.3 (Low) at 70 t/s.
- For latency, GLM-5.3 (Low) at 31.65s offers the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, GLM-5.3 (Low) at $0.85 offers the lowest cost per task. Prices vary up to 2.4x across models.
| Reasoning | Yes This page shows the reasoning version of this model. A non-reasoning variant may also exist. |
|---|---|
| Input modality | Supports: text |
| Output modality | Supports: text |
| Context window | 1M ~1500 A4 pages of size 12 Arial font |
| Total parameters | 753B |
| Active parameters | 40B Number of parameters active per token during inference |
| License | GLM-5.3 License |
| Model weights | Hugging Face |
Metrics are compared against models of the same class:
- Non-reasoning models → compared only with other non-reasoning models
- Reasoning models → compared across both reasoning and non-reasoning
- Open weights models → compared only with other open weights models of the same size class:
- Tiny: ≤4B parameters
- Small: 4B–40B parameters
- Medium: 40B–150B parameters
- Large: >150B parameters
- Proprietary models → compared across proprietary and open weights models of the same price range, using a blended 3:1 input/output price ratio:
- <$0.15 per 1M tokens
- $0.15–$1 per 1M tokens
- >$1 per 1M tokens
Intelligence
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Cost
Cost per Intelligence Index Task
Speed & Latency
Output Speed
Capability Scores
Capability Indexes
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience, AutomationBench-AA, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better
Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Humanity's Last Exam, AA-LCR v1.1, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, Humanity's Last Exam, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better
Incorporates 6 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, CritPt, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0 · Higher is better
Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience, Humanity's Last Exam, GDPval-AA v2.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-LCR v1.1 · Higher is better
Intelligence Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, (Elo-500)/2000
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic real-world work tasks, (Elo-500)/2000
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Agentic coding & terminal use
Long context reasoning
Coding
Physics reasoning
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
Agentic business operations
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Medical long context reasoning
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Further details
Weights | Provider Benchmarks | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3 (Max) |  Z AI | 45 | 753B 40B active at inference time | 1M | $0.9 | 66 |   +18 | ||
| GLM-5.3 (Low) | Z AI | 34 | 753B 40B active at inference time | 1M | $0.9 | 70 |    |