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GLM5.3

GLM5.3 is a post-training evolution of the GLM family that shares its base model with GLM-5.2, channeling its improvements entirely into reinforcement and refinement stages rather than a fresh pretraining run. The work concentrates on long-horizon and agentic behavior, with the resulting weights positioned by the developer as the most capable open-weights coding release in the family. Practical fit centers on software engineering tasks that span multi-step editing, repository-scale changes, and autonomous execution in terminal environments, where the post-training emphasis on sustained reasoning pays off.

Benchmark reporting places GLM5.3 at the front of several software and security evaluations, including Terminal Bench 2.1, DeepSWE v1.1, FrontierSWE, and CyberGym, with the largest relative lifts appearing on harder long-horizon and exploitation-chain tests where it more than doubles the prior version's score. Independent third-party testing reinforces the security picture, classifying GLM5.3 alongside DeepSeek as a frontier-tier model for rediscovering real-world vulnerabilities. Together these results frame GLM5.3 as a strong match for teams that need an AI assistant capable of sustained coding work, terminal-driven automation, and security research workflows.

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Model key
glm-5.3
Release date
Aug 14, 2026
Last updated
Aug 14, 2026
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Cost

Input token cost
$1.40
Output token cost
$4.40

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Output tokens
128,000 tokens
Context window
1,048,576 tokens

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Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, positioning it as a 743B-parameter coding and cyber-defense model under the tagline "Built to Code. Ready for Cyber Defense." The model's official launch chart covers nine benchmarks: Terminal-Bench 3.0, DeepSWE 1.1, CyberGym at 84.5%, AutomationBench at 48.2%, GDPVal-AA v2 at The most circulated headline claim — 73/80 (91.25%) on the KingBench 3 coding and agentic suite, ahead of Fable 5, Qwen 3.8 Max, and Opus 4.8/Opus 5 — is single-sourced to a third-party review and does not appear in Z.ai's own published launch chart, nor in any primary blog post, model card, or independent leaderboard

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