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GLM 5.3

by Z Ai

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 w

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GLM 5.3

Added 3 Sept 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `z-ai/glm-5.3`.

  • openrouter · z-ai/glm-5.3 Docs

OpenRouter id: z-ai/glm-5.3

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 44.8 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 74.8 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 53.1 index
  • Design Arena 3d (other): 1334 elo · #13
  • Design Arena asciiart (other): 1213 elo · #20
  • Design Arena codecategories (other): 1306 elo · #14
  • Design Arena dataviz (other): 1263 elo · #30

Notes

GLM 5.3 is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much GLM 5.3 is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
5.2T ▲37.2%
Requests, last 7 days
65.4M
Tool calls, last 7 days
40.1M
Intelligence score
44.8
People's vote
1471
Average cost per request
$1.79
Price per million tokens
$0.079 in · $1.4 out
0500B1T19 Sept: 371B tokens, 3.7M requests20 Sept: 309B tokens, 4.1M requests21 Sept: 524B tokens, 6.5M requests22 Sept: 334B tokens, 4.6M requests23 Sept: 451B tokens, 5.9M requests24 Sept: 625B tokens, 9.1M requests25 Sept: 427B tokens, 6.1M requests26 Sept: 222B tokens, 3.4M requests27 Sept: 216B tokens, 3.2M requests28 Sept: 448B tokens, 5.7M requests29 Sept: 410B tokens, 5.9M requests30 Sept: 396B tokens, 6.4M requests1 Oct: 440B tokens, 6M requests2 Oct: 424B tokens, 6.3M requests3 Oct: 501B tokens, 8.4M requests4 Oct: 325B tokens, 5.4M requests5 Oct: 474B tokens, 7.6M requests6 Oct: 503B tokens, 8.9M requests7 Oct: 495B tokens, 9.2M requests8 Oct: 578B tokens, 21M requests9 Oct: 546B tokens, 8.2M requests10 Oct: 516B tokens, 7.1M requests11 Oct: 674B tokens, 9.7M requests12 Oct: 652B tokens, 8.2M requests13 Oct: 719B tokens, 8.4M requests14 Oct: 743B tokens, 9.6M requests15 Oct: 981B tokens, 11.6M requests16 Oct: 943B tokens, 11.5M requests17 Oct: 630B tokens, 8.1M requests18 Oct: 525B tokens, 7.9M requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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