GLM 5.3
GLM 5.3 is GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. $0.8918 per million input tokens, $2.803 per million output tokens. 1,310,720 token context…. It is ranked #558 on the Dev Radar, in Backend & APIs, first seen 7 days ago and shared in 2 posts (9.9k views).
GLM 5.3 - API Pricing & Benchmarks | OpenRouter Benchmarks Chat Pricing Docs Sign Up Sign Up Z.ai: GLM 5.3 z-ai / glm-5.3 Model weights Compare Playground Try this model 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 on GLM-5.2 in coding and in the balance between performance and token efficiency. Reasoning is always on and cannot be disabled. Reasoning efforts low , high , and max are supported; max is the default. Modalities In / Out Price 36% off $0.8918 / $2.803 per 1M Context 1.3M…
What people said about GLM 5.3 on X
Nice stats from @OpenRouter that illustrate how @togethercompute delivers solid and scaled performance for agentic workloads. We are serving GLM 5.3 and GLM 5.3 Flash @ top decile of TPS, latency, cache rate, and doing it at large volumes, 23% and 30% of all OpenRouter traffic, and OpenRouter is a fraction of our…
— @vipulved, 7 days ago · 61 likes · see the post
Great teamwork behind this!
— @zhyncs42, 7 days ago · 10 likes · see the post
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GLM 5.3 in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #558 of 1353
- Shared in 2 posts by 2 accounts: @vipulved, @zhyncs42
- 9.9k views on those posts
- First seen 7 days ago, last shared 7 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: paid
- Market: Backend & APIs
FAQ
What is 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. $0.8918 per million input tokens, $2.803 per million output tokens. 1,310,720 token context… It was first shared on X 7 days ago and is ranked #558 on the Dev Radar.
Is GLM 5.3 free?
It is a paid product.
Who shared GLM 5.3?
2 accounts on X, including @vipulved, @zhyncs42, in 2 posts totalling 9.9k views.
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