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Z.ai: GLM 5.3

z-ai/glm-5.3

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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 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

$1.25 / $4.40per 1M

Context

1M

Released

Aug 18, 2026

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Providers

Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick — Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Exacto (highest tool-calling accuracy).

Pricing

The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.

Performance

Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).

Uptime

Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations. Higher percentages are better — and rank percentile shows where this model lands among all models on OpenRouter.

Apps

Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

Quick Start

Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.

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Throughput

84tok/s

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Latency

0.67s

P50, best provider

Uptime (3d)

100.00%

Availability (3d)

99.82%

Availability over the last 3 days

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Availability over the last 24 hours

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99.78%
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97.91%

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Frequently asked questions

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.

GLM 5.3 costs $1.25/M input tokens and $4.40/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.26/M tokens.

GLM 5.3 has a 1,310,720 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.

Yes. GLM 5.3 accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.

GLM 5.3 is served by 7 providers on OpenRouter: io.net, DeepInfra, Cloudflare, Friendli, Baseten, GMICloud and Z.ai. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.

GLM 5.3 was released on August 18, 2026.