Model comparison
GLM 5.2 (free) vs GLM 5.3
Price history, scores and specs for both models, line by line. Every value shows where it came from and when we last confirmed it.
Z Ai
GLM 5.2 (free)
Open flagship GLM for long-horizon coding agents and million-token context work.
Z Ai
GLM 5.3
GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks.
Price history
Prices side by side, day by day
- GLM 5.2 (free) No price history checked yet
- GLM 5.3
- GLM 5.2 (free) No price history checked yet
- GLM 5.3
Prices are the listed OpenRouter base rates in US dollars. A day we could not confirm is left out of the line, never filled in.
Price
What each one costs now
| Measure | GLM 5.2 (free) | GLM 5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | Not checked yet | $0.070 per million tokens |
| Output price | Not checked yet | $1.40 per million tokens |
Scores
Benchmarks, with source and date
| Measure | GLM 5.2 (free) | GLM 5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index | Not checked yet | 31.7 |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | Not checked yet | 74.8 |
| Artificial Analysis Agentic Index | Not checked yet | 53.1 |
| LMArena text rating (Elo) | Not checked yet | 1,476 |
| LMArena web development rating (Elo) | Not checked yet | 1,621 |
| Design Arena rating (Elo) | Not checked yet | 1,315 |
Specs
Context, modalities and tool use
| Measure | GLM 5.2 (free) | GLM 5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | Not checked yet | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Reads | Not checked yet | Text |
| Writes | Not checked yet | Text |
| Tool calling | Not checked yet | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Not checked yet | Yes |
| Open weights | Not checked yet | Yes |
| Listed since | Not checked yet | 18 Aug 2026 |
Usage
How much each one is used
| Measure | GLM 5.2 (free) | GLM 5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Tokens served on OpenRouter in a day | Not checked yet | 417.5B (for 7 Nov 2026) |
| Requests on OpenRouter in a day | Not checked yet | 8.5M (for 7 Nov 2026) |
| Tool calls on OpenRouter in a day | Not checked yet | 3.8M (for 7 Nov 2026) |
| Token usage, last 7 days | Not checked yet | Down 18% on the week before (for 7 Nov 2026) |
- GLM 5.2 (free) No usage checked yet
- GLM 5.3
How this works
One link, either order
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