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GLM-5.3

GLM 5.3 delivers comprehensive advancements in complex software engineering and agent capabilities.

text → text · made by Z.ai

$1.4$4.4per Mtok in / out
Z.ai · 18 sellers

Sold by 57 ways

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DigitalOcean cloudstandard$0.95per Mtok in$3.4per Mtok out$0.2per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
Databricks cloudstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cached$1.4per Mtok cache writeraw.githubusercontent.com · read 2026-09-16
Z.ai apistandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cacheddocs.z.ai · read 2026-08-24
Nous Research 2 ways$0.88per Mtok in$2.97per Mtok out$0.18per Mtok cached
Nous Research aggregatorbatch$0.7per Mtok in$2.2per Mtok out$0.13per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-09-12
Nous Research aggregatorstandard$0.88per Mtok in$2.97per Mtok out$0.18per Mtok cachedinference-api.nousresearch.com · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter 34 ways$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cached
OpenRouter aggregatorbatch$0.7per Mtok in$2.2per Mtok out$0.13per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-09
OpenRouter aggregatorreka/fp8$0.88per Mtok in$2.97per Mtok out$0.18per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatordeepinfra/fp4$0.9per Mtok in$3per Mtok out$0.15per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-15
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OpenRouter aggregatorakashml/fp8$0.97per Mtok in$3.3per Mtok out$0.2per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatormorph/fp8$1per Mtok in$3.41per Mtok out$0.2per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatorinceptron/fp4$1.07per Mtok in$4.09per Mtok out$0.19per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatorstreamlake/fp8$1.08per Mtok in$3.41per Mtok out$0.2per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-11
OpenRouter aggregatorio-net/fp8$1.1per Mtok in$4.22per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatorgmicloud/fp8$1.12per Mtok in$3.52per Mtok out$0.21per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-08
OpenRouter aggregatorsiliconflow/fp8$1.12per Mtok in$3.52per Mtok out$0.21per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatorio-net/fp4$1.12per Mtok in$4.32per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-11
OpenRouter aggregatorsail-research/fp8$1.13per Mtok in$3.56per Mtok out$0.21per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatormorph/fp4$1.17per Mtok in$3.96per Mtok out$0.23per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-10
OpenRouter aggregatordecart/fp4$1.19per Mtok in$3.74per Mtok out$0.2per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-05
OpenRouter aggregatornot on the seller's list todaydeepinfra/bf16$1.2per Mtok in$4per Mtok out$0.24per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-29
OpenRouter aggregatordigitalocean$1.26per Mtok in$3.96per Mtok out$0.23per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-15
OpenRouter aggregatorfriendli$1.26per Mtok in$3.96per Mtok out$0.23per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-01
OpenRouter aggregatormakora/fp4$1.35per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.23per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-02
OpenRouter aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-14
OpenRouter aggregatoralibaba$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.28per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-16
OpenRouter aggregatoratlas-cloud/fp8$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-30
OpenRouter aggregatorbaidu/fp8$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-15
OpenRouter aggregatorbaseten/fp4$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.14per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-08-29
OpenRouter aggregatorcloudflare$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-04
OpenRouter aggregatorcrusoe/fp4$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-08
OpenRouter aggregatornot on the seller's list todaycrusoe/fp8$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-07
OpenRouter aggregatorfireworks$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-04
OpenRouter aggregatormodal$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-04
OpenRouter aggregatorparasail/fp8$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-04
OpenRouter aggregatortogether$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-04
OpenRouter aggregatorvenice$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-13
OpenRouter aggregatorz-ai/fp8$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-04
OpenRouter aggregatorbaseten/fp8$2.1per Mtok in$6.6per Mtok out$0.21per Mtok cachedopenrouter.ai · read 2026-09-03
Inference.net aggregatorstandard$1per Mtok in$3per Mtok out$0.2per Mtok cachedapi.inference.net · read 2026-09-16
FriendliAI aggregatorstandard$1.26per Mtok in$3.96per Mtok out$0.23per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
Baseten aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.14per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
Cloudflare aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
ElectronHub aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok outapi.electronhub.ai · read 2026-09-16
Fireworks AI 2 ways$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cached
Fireworks AI aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
Fireworks AI aggregatorpriority$1.75per Mtok in$5.5per Mtok out$0.33per Mtok cachedraw.githubusercontent.com · read 2026-09-16
Hugging Face Inference Providers aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok outmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
Novita AI aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedapi.novita.ai · read 2026-08-25
Requesty aggregatorzai$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedrouter.requesty.ai · read 2026-08-28
Together AI aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.26per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
Vercel AI Gateway 2 ways$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.14per Mtok cached
Vercel AI Gateway aggregatorstandard$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok out$0.14per Mtok cachedvercel.com · read 2026-08-25
Vercel AI Gateway aggregatornot on the seller's list todaysandbox$1.4per Mtok in$4.4per Mtok outvercel.com · read 2026-08-25
Vercel AI Gateway aggregatorfast$2.1per Mtok in$6.6per Mtok out$0.21per Mtok cachedai-gateway.vercel.sh · read 2026-09-04
Venice AI aggregatorstandard$1.75per Mtok in$5.5per Mtok out$0.33per Mtok cachedmodels.dev · read 2026-09-16
PPIO aggregatorstandard$8per Mtok in$28per Mtok outapi.ppinfra.com · read 2026-09-16

Measured 34 standings

PlaceBoardMetricScore
3rdof 9Frontierswe — Epoch AIScore (max)30.182
5thof 155Design Arena · gamedev (models)Elo1376
6thof 143Artificial Analysis · Agentic IndexIndex53.4
6thof 147Design Arena · 3d (models)Elo1393
6thof 150Design Arena · uicomponent (models)Elo1343
6thof 60Vending bench 2 — Epoch AIScore8163.61
6thof 60Vending-Bench 2 — Current leaderboardMoney Balance (average across 5 runs)8163.61
8thof 156Design Arena · codecategories (models)Elo1330
9thof 109Design Arena · svg (models)Elo1321
9thof 162Design Arena · website (models)Elo1317
11thof 43Design Arena · python-pptxslides (agents)Elo1259
11thof 121Webdev arena — Epoch AIArena Score (max)1598.6
13thof 36Design Arena · htmlslides (agents)Elo1189
14thof 168Scicode — Epoch AIScore (max)56.481
15thof 128LMArena · WebDevScore (Elo) (max)1614
16thof 69Deepswe — Epoch AIPass@1 (max)0.69
18thof 106Frontiermath tiers 1 3 v2 — Epoch AImean_score (max)68.772
19thof 402LMArena · TextScore (Elo) (max)1483
20thof 302Artificial Analysis · Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis Intelligence Index (max)45
20thof 127Mystery game puzzles — Epoch AImean_score (max)33
20thof 64Proofbench — Epoch AIAccuracy (max)49
21stof 112Ale bench — Epoch AIPerformance (high)1317.4
21stof 63Design Arena · mobileapps (agents)Elo1231
23rdof 184Artificial Analysis · Coding IndexIndex74.8
27thof 170Weirdml — Epoch AIAccuracy (max)75.4
29thof 62Frontiermath tier 4 v2 — Epoch AImean_score (max)29.268
30thof 313GPQA Diamondmean_score (max)90.909
31stof 46LMArena · AgentNet Improvement (%)3.05
36thof 152Design Arena · dataviz (models)Elo1262
38thof 177Critpt — Epoch AIAccuracy (max)19.143
38thof 80Simpleqa verified — Epoch AImean_score (max)41
58thof 290OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025mean_score (max)91.111
75thof 222Chess puzzles — Epoch AImean_score (max)21
121stof 656Epoch capabilities index — Epoch AIECI Score (max)155.3

About

GLM-5.3 — a text model from Z.ai, sold by 18 companies from $0.88 in and $2.97 out per million tokens, placed 5th of 155 on Design Arena · gamedev (models).

It takes text and returns text, with a context window of 1,000,000 tokens. It was published in August 2026. Its sellers say it can reason step by step and call a tool. The catalogue files it under reasoning, code and agents. Eighteen companies sell it. The cheapest is $0.88 in and $2.97 out per million tokens at Nous Research. Beside the standard rate there are faster, batch, regional and separately routed lanes. It has been measured on 34 boards, and stands best at 5th of 155 on Design Arena · gamedev (models).

Every current figure

Maker
Z.ai
Register
model
Takes
text
Returns
text
Context
1,000,000 tokens
Longest answer
131,072 tokens
Published
August 2026
Licence
not read
Sellers
18
Price
$0.88 in and $2.97 out per million tokens — Nous Research
Boards
34
Best place
5th of 155 — Design Arena · gamedev (models)

Known as 6 names

GLM-5.3 (max)GLM 5.3 (Max)glm-5.3-maxz-ai/glm-5.3zai-org/glm-5.3zai/glm-5.3