Z.ai
·Released on Aug 18, 2026

GLM 5.3 API Benchmarks, Pricing & Provider Data

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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....

Category Performance

Observed-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.

Coverage
2 / 8
Methodology
V3.0
Category PerformanceObserved-capability estimates with uncertainty reported separately from independent benchmark families.Agents-Coding63.3Reasoning61.2Knowledge-Math-Multilingual-Multimodal-Instruction following-
#1Coding63.3Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 47.379.2
code generation63.3
scicode · scicode
repository engineeringPrior only
debugging testingPrior only
tooling qualityPrior only
#2Reasoning61.2Provisional1/4 Measured dimensions
80% interval: 47.375.2
abstract logicPrior only
scientific causal61.2
gpqa · gpqa / hle · hle
multistep constraintsPrior only
evidence verificationPrior only
No data:AgentsKnowledgeMathMultilingualMultimodalInstruction following

Specifications

Input and output token limits for this model, plus how it ranks on long-context understanding.

INPUT
1.0Mtokens
1.3K pages of text
OUTPUT
131.1Ktokens
8K128K1M4M
1.0M

Features

Technical Details

Input
Output
Released
Aug 2026
Documentation
Tokenizer
Other
Architecture
text->text
Moderated
No
Expiration date
2098-12-31
Supported parameters
include_reasoningmax_tokensreasoningreasoning_effortresponse_formattemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_p

Rankings

Excels at

Detailed scores

Updated: Aug 20, 2026

Speed & latency

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Output speed79.6 tok/s#42 / 73Time to first token1.51 s#45 / 73
Output speed
LMSpeed rank#42
Score79.6 tok/s
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4
Time to first token
LMSpeed rank#45
Score1.51 s
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4

Pricing

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Input price$1.40/M#132 / 180Output price$4.40/M#115 / 180
Input price
LMSpeed rank#132
Score$1.40/M
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4
Output price
LMSpeed rank#115
Score$4.40/M
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4

Agents

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Planning & decompositionPrior only
Tool usePrior only
Environment & long-horizon executionPrior only
Recovery & completion reliabilityPrior only

Coding

V3.0

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Score63.380% interval47.3–79.21/4 Measured dimensionsSciCode56.5%#7 / 204
Dimensions and evidence
Code generation63.3
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scicode · scicode · z 1.62 · q 1.00
Repository engineeringPrior only
Debugging & testingPrior only
Tool-assisted development & qualityPrior only
SciCodeV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#7
Score56.5%
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4

Reasoning

V3.0

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Score61.280% interval47.3–75.21/4 Measured dimensionsGPQA91.7%#18 / 211HLE42.3%#21 / 208
Dimensions and evidence
Abstract logicPrior only
Scientific & causal reasoning61.2
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gpqa · gpqa · z 1.12 · q 1.00
hle · hle · z 0.99 · q 1.00
Multi-step constraintsPrior only
Evidence integration & verificationPrior only
GPQAV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#18
Score91.7%
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4
HLEV3 evidence
LMSpeed rank#21
Score42.3%
UpdatedAug 20, 2026
Confidence4

Knowledge

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Broad knowledgePrior only
Professional knowledgePrior only
FactualityPrior only
Retrieval & open-book usePrior only

Math

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Foundational mathPrior only
Competition mathPrior only
Advanced proofsPrior only
Applied & tool-assisted mathPrior only

Multilingual

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Cross-language understandingPrior only
Multilingual generationPrior only
Reasoning transferPrior only
Low-resource robustnessPrior only

Multimodal

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Perception & OCRPrior only
Document & spatial understandingPrior only
Visual reasoningPrior only
Video & grounded actionPrior only

Instruction following

V3.0

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No data80% interval30.8–69.20/4 Measured dimensions
Dimensions and evidence
Constraint followingPrior only
Structured outputPrior only
Novel-instruction generalizationPrior only
Multi-turn & long instructionsPrior only

OpenRouter endpoints

1 endpoints

Third-party OpenRouter endpoint data, shown separately from LMSpeed measurements. Some 30-minute live performance fields only appear after syncing with an OpenRouter API key.

Provider endpointInputOutput1d uptime30m latency30m throughputContext / output
Z.AI
z-ai/fp8
$1.40/M$4.40/M100.0%undefined tokens / undefined tokens

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