GLM 5.3
ModelOpen sourceActiveby Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · family “glm”
GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves... (description from the OpenRouter listing)
in: textout: textReasoningTool useStructured output
Epoch Capabilities Index
155.6 #22 of 268
90% CI 153.6 – 158.0
Released
14 Aug 2026
Context window
1.31M tokens
Max output
944K tokens
Input $ / 1M tokens
$1.40
Output $ / 1M tokens
$4.40
Cached input $ / 1M
$0.26
Each benchmark shown separately with its own source
Benchmark results (11)
| Benchmark | Domain | Score | vs best recorded | Setting | Run | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery Game Puzzles | games | 33.0% ±4.7 | 39% | max | 30 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
| FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private | math | 68.8% ±2.7 | 73% | max | 25 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
| FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private | math | 29.3% ±7.2 | 30% | max | 25 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
| FrontierCode | coding | 40.1% | 75% | max | — | External ↗ |
| DeepSWE | coding | 69.0% | 93% | max | — | External ↗ |
| ProofBench | math | 49.0% | 49% | max | — | External ↗ |
| Chess Puzzles | games | 21.0% ±4.1 | 29% | max | 24 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
| SimpleQA Verified | knowledge | 41.0% ±1.6 | 54% | max | 28 Aug 2026 | Eval log ↗ |
| WeirdML | coding | 75.4% ±0.0 | 81% | max | — | External ↗ |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | math | 91.1% ±3.5 | 91% | max | 24 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
| GPQA diamond | science | 90.9% ±1.6 | 95% | max | 24 Aug 2026 | Epoch ↗ |
Source: Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub (CC BY 4.0). “External” rows are leaderboard results Epoch collects from third parties. Best reported setting per benchmark is shown.
API list price over time
Price history
$ per 1M tokens
4 recorded prices on 2 Sep 2026 (OpenRouter listing + Internet Archive snapshots); re-read on every data refresh, most recently 11h ago. Steps show when the price changed.
Events
- Price rise+684%GLM 5.3 API price raisedOpenRouter models API
- Price cut-87%GLM 5.3 API price cutOpenRouter models API
- BenchmarkEpoch AI evaluates GLM 5.3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
- BenchmarkEpoch AI evaluates GLM 5.3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
- BenchmarkEpoch AI evaluates GLM 5.3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
- BenchmarkEpoch AI evaluates GLM 5.3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub
- Open releaseZ.ai releases GLM 5.3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub