GLM 5.3
z-ai/glm-5.3GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks.
Standard pricing
Run this model at its standard rate. Cheap mode currently has no separate discount.
API routing ceilings, including your 5% Free-plan fee. Included usage applies first, then prepaid credits. Cached tokens and tools can have separate charges.
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Playground
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Model capabilities below describe the underlying model. Available playground features depend on its provider.
API
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A current API route is listed for this exact model. Gateway configuration is required for live calls.
Provider price + a transparent platform fee
| Rate | Provider baseline | Free plan · 5% fee | Paid plan · 4% fee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.0699 | $0.073395 | $0.072696 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $1.4 | $1.47 | $1.456 |
| API input / 1M tokens | $0.0699 | $0.073395 | $0.072696 |
| API output / 1M tokens | $1.4 | $1.47 | $1.456 |
Legacy chat image rates use the catalog baseline. The dedicated image playground shows separate estimates and settles the provider’s metered usage. API rates are current routing ceilings; final API charges use provider-reported cost plus your fee. Cheapest routing compares eligible OpenRouter and Cheaper Inference rates for the same model; savings are not guaranteed. Cached input or other provider charges may differ. Compare all model rates and verified discounts →
How your plan pays for usage
API and playground share one included allowance. Usage including the fee draws from that allowance first, then your prepaid credits. Plans bill monthly; included usage resets weekly: Free $1, Starter $5, Growth $25, Scale $50.
A $1 provider charge becomes $1.05 on Free or $1.04 on a paid plan before included usage is applied. Plan eligibility still applies in the playground.
Free models and limits
Zero-cost models stay $0, including the fee, and do not consume your dollar allowance. Free accounts can make 1,000 free-model API requests per calendar month, resetting in UTC. Admitted requests count even if the provider fails.
Free includes 20 API requests/minute and 6 playground messages/minute. Paid plans raise these limits. See plan limits.
Before a text API request, Gizmo temporarily reserves included usage and, if necessary, prepaid credit for the model’s full context plus your maximum output. Image jobs reserve twice their displayed estimate. Unused funds return after metering. This hold can exceed the final charge; unconfirmed usage remains marked pending.
Overview
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.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis indices independent, 0–100
Benchmark from the model card
| Benchmark | GLM-5.3 | GLM-5.2 | Kimi K3 | DeepSeek-V4 Pro-0813 | Qwen3.8-Max | Opus 4.8 | Fable 5 (w/ fallback) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Bench 2.1 | 88.2 | 81.0 | 88.3 | 87.9 | 86.6 | 85.0 | 88.0 |
| Terminal Bench 3.0 | 28.3 | 4.6 | 17.4 | – | – | 21.1 | 33.7 |
| DeepSWE (v1.1) | 66.9 | 46.2 | 67.5 | 62.7 | 56.6 | 58.0 | 69.7 |
| NL2Repo | 58.0 | 48.9 | 58.0 | 61.1 | 55.9 | 69.7 | – |
| ProgramBench (Almost Solved) | 19.0 | 9.5 | 17.5 | – | 10.5 | 15.5 | 33.0 |
| FrontierSWE | 78.1 | 67.5 | – | – | – | 66.5 | 88.2 |
| SWE-Marathon (v1.1) | 42.5 | 19.4 | 48.1 | – | – | 48.8 | 33.1 |
| PostTrainBench | 39.8 | 31.7 | 32.0 | – | – | 32.9 | 41.8 |
| CyberGym | 84.5 | 77.2 | 80.0 | 83.3 | 78.5 | 78.1 | 83.8 |
| ExploitGym (2h / 6h) | 105 / 130 | 29 / 39 | 36 / 70 | – | 14 / 26 | 80 / 120 | 181 / 247 |
| ExploitBench | 54.4 | 24.4 | 32.2 | – | 28.8 | 40.0 | 78.0 |
| Toolathlon Verified | 73.0 | 59.9 | 76.5 | 74.1 | 72.5 | 76.2 | 74.7 |
| AutomationBench (v1.0.6) | 48.2 | 26.2 | 46.7 | 43.2 | 39.8 | 41.0 | 46.2 |
| Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI) | 28.5 | 23.8 | 27.6 | 25.7 | 27.0 | 25.7 | 23.8 |
| HLE w/ Tools | 62.5 | 54.7 | 59.8 | 60.0 | 56.2 | 57.9 | 63.9 |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1769 | 1508 | 1682 | 1590 | 1739 | 1588 | 1743 |
Capabilities
Reasoning is always on with effort levels max · high · low (default max).
Sampling controls: temperature, top_p, top_k, min_p, max_tokens, frequency_penalty, presence_penalty, repetition_penalty. Defaults: top_p 0.95, temperature 1.
Pricing on Gizmo
These are provider baseline rates before Gizmo’s 5% Free-plan or 4% paid-plan fee. Your included usage covers charges first; overage uses prepaid credits. See the fee-inclusive comparison above.
Provider baseline rates
- Input
- $0.07 / 1M
- Cached input
- $0.26 / 1M
- Output
- $1.40 / 1M
Examples before the platform fee
- Typical chat turn
- $0.00084 2k in · 500 out
- $1 of input
- ≈ 14.31M tokens
- $1 of output
- ≈ 714k tokens
- Full context, once
- $0.0733
Providers and pricing
One way to run GLM 5.3 on Gizmo.
| Provider | Route | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Uptime 24h |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wafer · usLowest price | OpenRouter | $0.0699 | $1.40 | 1.05M | 100% |
Rates are each provider’s, per million tokens, before Gizmo’s 5% (Free) or 4% (paid) fee. “Cheapest” routing starts at the top of this list; “Fastest” starts with the model’s maker.
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