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GLM-5.3

by Z.AI

Current new · 4d flagship mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$1.40

per 1M tokens

Output

$4.40

per 1M tokens

Blended

$2.15

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

Cached input

$0.260

19% of input — prompt caching

Source: official Z.AI pricing · read Aug 18, 2026 MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-08-18

Price receipt

We read Z.AI's own pricing page on Aug 18, 2026 and found GLM-5.3 listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is 997861e76a.

Overview

Z.AI's flagship model — a post-trained upgrade of GLM-5.2 (same MoE base) with major gains in coding and long-horizon agentic work. Text-only, 1M-token context, 128K max output; reasoning is always on with selectable effort. $1.40/$4.40 per 1M tokens; cached input $0.26. An open-weights release is announced to follow launch.

Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video PDF
Output 1/5
Text ✓ Image Audio Video Embedding
Features 2/9
Prompt caching ✓ Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights Multimodal Web search Realtime

Benchmark performance

accuracy % · higher is better
Percentile vs all tracked models 93.6th4 independent measurements
Percentile per $/Mtok 43.5

We hold no per-benchmark accuracy scores for this model yet, so it has no accuracy average. That is a gap in our coverage, not a sign the model is untested — independent evaluators often publish a composite index for a new model long before releasing its per-benchmark numbers. The percentile above is its standing across the independent composites below.

Independent composite scores
  • AA Intelligence Index: 59.5 (Artificial Analysis composite across reasoning, knowledge and coding evals)
  • AA Agentic Index: 59.1 (Tool use, planning, autonomy)
  • AA-Omniscience Index: 14.3 (−100–100)
  • GDPval-AA v2: 1769 ELO (Real-world work tasks, human baseline = 1000)
How it stacks up
  • Ranks #3 of 161 comparably-measured models by percentile score, across 4 independent measurements
  • Ranks #58 of 161 comparably-tested models by normalized performance per dollar

Source: Artificial Analysis · updated Aug 18, 2026 · See full rankings →

Specifications

Provider
Z.AI
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
No — proprietary
Released
Aug 14, 2026
Status
Current
Last updated
Aug 18, 2026
Tags
flagshipcaching

Availability verified: Aug 18, 2026 — listed on Z.AI's own page