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GLM-5.3

Open weights Z.ai 2026-08 1M context

First among open models on Terminal-Bench 4.0 (41.9%) — the pick for long-horizon agent workflows

Intelligence v5
32.0
Leaderboard rank
#16
Input / output
$1.40/$4.40
Blended 3:1
$2.15
Output speed
77 tok/s
Value
15 pts/$
Capability profile Normalised to the field maximum
Specifications
Vendor
Z.ai
Released
2026-08
Weights
Open (GLM-5.3 License)
Context
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
Undisclosed
Parameters
753B total / 18B active
Input price
$1.40 / 1M
Output price
$4.40 / 1M
Cache hit
n/a
Output speed
77 tok/s
Intelligence
32.0(v5)

Benchmark scores

How it is measured →

Ranked 16 · bars are scaled to the field maximum for that benchmark.

BenchmarksScoreVs. best in fieldGap
AA Intelligence Index v5 Intelligence index 32.053% −28.0 pts
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 Intelligence index (legacy) 44.878% −12.8 pts
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level science reasoning 90.994% −5.5 pts
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-agent tasks 41.962% −25.3 pts
LiveBench Design——not indexed
Vals Index——not indexed

Assessment

753B total with 18B active and 1M context. Its Terminal-Bench 4.0 score of 41.9% is the highest of any open model, more than double DeepSeek V4.1 Flash's 19.7%. But at $2.01 per index task it costs 7.7× DeepSeek, because it burns more reasoning tokens.

At the same price

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