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Z.ai: GLM 5.3

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
$0.0699 / $1.40per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Aug 18, 2026

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 Floor (cheapest).

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.

Weighted average

Input
$0.1732/M tokens
Output
$3.021/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

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).

Throughput
176tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
0.28s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchBaseten (fp8) (US)84.7%83.7%Wafer88.4%78.7%Wafer (US)87.6%79.1%Doubleword88.6%78.0%Z.ai88.4%77.4%DeepInfra87.0%78.1%Baseten (fp4) (US)84.0%76.6%Baseten (fp4)84.0%76.2%Baseten (fp8)84.6%70.4%
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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.

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
99.99%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.90%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.90%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.89%
Without Routing
97.62%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.

Benchmarks

Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.

Benchmark score summary for Z.ai: GLM 5.3 (Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) Intelligence Index23.1
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) HLE36.6%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) AA-LCR72.7%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) GDPval-AA41.7%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) CritPt14.6%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) SciCode42.0%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) Terminal-Bench 4.034.8%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) AA-Omniscience Accuracy31.9%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Low) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate36.8%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) Intelligence Index31.7
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) Coding Index74.8
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) Agentic Index53.1
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) GPQA Diamond91.7%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) HLE42.3%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) AA-LCR79.7%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) τ-Bench Banking50.3%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) GDPval-AA57.8%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) CritPt19.1%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) SciCode59.0%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) Terminal-Bench 4.041.9%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) Terminal-Bench 2.183.9%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) AA-Omniscience Accuracy32.3%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3 (Max) AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate61.1%
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena 3D Elo1295
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena Asciiart Elo1208
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena Code Categories Elo1284
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1251
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena Game Development Elo1289
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena SVG Elo1246
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena UI Component Elo1284
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Models Arena Website Elo1279
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Agents Arena Htmlslides Elo1189
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Agents Arena Mobile Apps Elo1184
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Agents Arena Python-Pptxslides Elo1216
Design ArenaGLM-5.3 Agents Arena Webapps Elo1270
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Access to Justice Benchmark73.7%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Code Migration v1.155.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 CyberBench v1.172.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 EMB v1.169.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Finance Agent v2.165.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Vals Finance Index61.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Financial Coaching Bench74.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 GPQA Diamond88.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 HLAB-Vals-1.114.6%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Immigration66.7%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 IOI68.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 LiveCodeBench80.5%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 LegalBench84.8%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Vals Legal Index74.6%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Legal Research Bench49.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 MedCode42.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 MedScribe88.8%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 MMLU Pro86.8%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 MysteryMechanism23.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 ProgramBench1.5%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 ProofBench v1.149.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Public Benefits Bench v1.168.5%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Vals RSI Index22.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 SkillsBench47.5%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 SRE Bench9.2%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 SWE-bench95.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Tax Agent Bench43.3%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 TaxEval v272.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Terminal-Bench 4.038.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Terminal-Bench-Science5.7%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Vals Index59.8%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Vibe Code Bench 1-10020.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Vibe Code Bench v1.178.1%

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.

1.
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Claude Code
2.16Ttokens
2.
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Hermes Agent
903Btokens
3.
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pi
685Btokens
4.
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Strix
668Btokens
5.
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omp
new
489Btokens
Rest of OpenRouter
85.5B
Top 5 Apps
23.9B

Activity

Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.

API

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.

Z.ai: GLM versions

Available through EU in-region routing

Z.ai: GLM 5.3 is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).

Providers in Europe
Inceptron, Mistral
Prices in Europe
  • Inceptron: $1/M tokens input, $4.20/M tokens output
  • Mistral: $1.54/M tokens input, $4.84/M tokens output
Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1
Plan
Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing

Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs

Documentation

Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with Z.ai: GLM 5.3 on OpenRouter.

Frequently asked questions

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