glm-5.3

mit

GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's latest flagship model, delivering comprehensive advancements in complex software engineering and agent capabilities. It uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with all improvements driven by post-training. Compared with GLM-5.2, it delivers significantly stronger performance in complex programming and long-horizon tasks:

Context
1M
Max output
128K
Input price
$0.07/1M tokens
Output price
$1.4/1M tokens

Capabilities

Reasoning & Interaction
Reasoning
Tool Calling
Output Control
Structured Output
JSON Mode
Infrastructure
Streaming
Prompt Caching
Fine-tuning

Details

Model IDzai/glm-5.3
Familyglm-5.3
Licensemit
Status—
Typechat
Input modalitiestext
Output modalitiestext
Open weightYes
Parameters—
Architecture—
Context window1M tokens
Max input—
Max output128K tokens
Reasoning tokens—
Knowledge cutoff—
Release date—
Sourceofficial

Tools

Function Callingfunction_calling
Call external functions and APIs

Pricing

Input
$0.07
Output
$1.4
Cache write
—
Cache read
—
Batch in
—
Batch out
—

Family Comparison: glm-5.3

ModelContextMax outPricing
glm-5.3-flash1M128K$0.04$0.07
glm-5.31M128K$0.07$1.4
glm-5.3-flashx1M128K$0.37$1.25
glm-5.3-promo-501M—$0.7$2.2
glm-5.3-fast1M—$2.1$6.6

API

GET/v1/models/vercel/zai/glm-5.3