The Model Gap

Zhipu AI (Z.ai)

GLM-5.3

Released
2026-08-14
License
proprietary at launch; open weights promised ~2 weeks post-launch pending safety review
Context window
1,000K tokens
Knowledge cutoff
Not disclosed

Pricing

in / out per 1M tokens

In plain English: No per-token API pricing yet — access is via GLM Coding Plan subscription ($18/$72/$160 per month) and ZCode, API 'coming soon'. Same 743B base model as GLM-5.2; all gains from scaled post-training (Z.ai claims +50% coding). Z.ai's own runs report DeepSWE v1.1 66.9 and Agents' Last Exam 28.5, but both used vendor harnesses that are not comparable to the independent leaderboards we track, so they are not listed as scores. Weights release delayed for safety evals after emergent exploit-chain capabilities.

Benchmark scores

Not sourced yet.