Z.ai glm_5_3 Released Aug 14, 2026 Updated
GLM-5.3
ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.
Model summary
Summary
GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's model, released Aug 14, 2026. It's ranked in 3 categories and does best at text: #38 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 521 against a median of 235.
It also ranks #18 of 147 for coding (489), #9 of 53 for agents (538).
Its text score uses votes only, because it has published fewer than two of the tests used for that category.
It costs $1.20 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens, about 2.8× the median text model ($0.43).
It has published results on 17 tests.
Specifications
- Creator
Z.ai- Licence
- glm_5_3
- Released
- Aug 14, 2026
- Context window
- 1M tokens
- Input price
- $1.20 / 1M
- Output price
- $4.00 / 1M
- Tests reported
- 17
- Settings ranked
- glm-5.3-max, GLM-5.3 (Max)
Model comparison
Against the ten best text models.
Text score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Coding score
ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better
Input price
USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better
Leaderboards
Where GLM-5.3 sits among the top 20 in each category.
Text
#38 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Coding
#18 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
Agents
#9 of 53 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model
By task
Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.
Score against price
Text · the 10 priced models ranked closest · up and to the left is better value
Against its nearest rivals
Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values
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GLM-5.3 -
mimo-v2.6-pro
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Muse Spark
Text
glm-5.3-max · hover a bar for its rank
Coding
GLM-5.3 (Max) · hover a bar for its rank
Test results
Every test GLM-5.3 has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.
Humanity's Last Exam
#5 / 108Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a multi-modal academic benchmark with 2,500 questions across mathematics, humanities, and natural sciences, designed to test LLM capabilities at the frontier of human knowledge with unambiguous, verifiable solutions
62.5%
Self-reported · In the text score· In the vision score
DeepSWE 1.1
#27 / 50DeepSWE 1.1 evaluates software engineering agents using the mini-swe-agent harness.
66.9%
Self-reported · In the coding score
Terminal-Bench 2.1
#7 / 46Terminal-Bench 2.1 is an updated release of the Terminal-Bench benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to operate a computer via the terminal. It evaluates how well models handle real-world, end-to-end tasks autonomously, including compiling code, training models, setting up servers, system administration, data science workflows, and security tasks.
88.2%
Self-reported
Toolathlon
#8 / 42Tool Decathlon is a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI agents' ability to use multiple tools across diverse task categories. It measures proficiency in tool selection, sequencing, and execution across ten different tool-use scenarios.
73.0%
Self-reported · In the agents score
Terminal-Bench 4.0
#12 / 28Terminal-Bench 4.0 evaluates AI agents on real-world work in terminal and command-line containerized environments across 66 tasks, with emphasis on science-adjacent and frontier engineering problems. Relative to earlier Terminal-Bench releases, 4.0 increases timeouts and adaptively raises RAM/CPU on selected tasks to reduce harness and resource confounds.
41.8%
Self-reported · In the coding score· In the agents score
NL2Repo
#6 / 25NL2Repo evaluates long-horizon coding capabilities including repository-level understanding, where models must generate or modify code across entire repositories from natural language specifications.
58.0%
Self-reported · In the coding score
Agents' Last Exam
#17 / 24Agents' Last Exam is a challenging benchmark for AI agents on hard, long-horizon tasks that test sustained reasoning, planning, and tool use, reported with and without tool access.
28.5%
Self-reported · In the agents score
AutomationBench
#7 / 24AutomationBench is a tool-use benchmark that evaluates AI agents on automating real-world workflows, testing their ability to orchestrate tools and complete multi-step automation tasks.
48.2%
Self-reported · In the agents score
CyberGym
#5 / 21CyberGym is a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on cybersecurity tasks, testing their ability to identify vulnerabilities, perform security analysis, and complete security-related challenges in a controlled environment.
84.5%
Self-reported
Program Bench
#17 / 18Program Bench evaluates code-generation agents by asking them to recreate a program's behavior from only a compiled binary and documentation. It spans 200 tasks from small CLI tools to large systems such as FFmpeg and SQLite, with submissions judged against more than 248,000 fuzz-generated behavioral tests.
19.0%
Self-reported · In the coding score
FrontierSWE
#3 / 16FrontierSWE measures whether an agent can complete open-ended technical projects at the scale of hours to tens of hours, spanning systems optimization, large-scale code construction, and applied ML research. Performance is reported as a dominance score, where higher is better.
78.1%
Self-reported
GDPval-AA
#3 / 14GDPval-AA evaluates AI agents on economically valuable professional knowledge-work tasks and reports performance as an Elo score.
59.0%
Self-reported
SWE-Marathon
#6 / 10SWE-Marathon is an ultra-long-horizon software engineering benchmark covering tasks such as building compilers, optimizing kernels, and developing production-grade services. It measures whether agents can sustain quality across extremely long engineering trajectories.
42.5%
Self-reported
PostTrainBench
#2 / 9PostTrainBench evaluates a model's ability to autonomously post-train base models. Given pretrain-only base models, the agent must complete the full pipeline of data synthesis, training, evaluation, and iteration within a time budget, scored across downstream benchmarks such as AIME2025, BFCL, GPQA Main, GSM8K, and HumanEval.
39.8%
Self-reported
ExploitBench
#4 / 8ExploitBench is a cybersecurity benchmark that evaluates a model's ability to discover and exploit software vulnerabilities, reported as the fraction of challenges where the model captures the target (Cap%).
54.4%
Self-reported
ExploitGym
#6 / 8ExploitGym is a large-scale, realistic benchmark built from real-world vulnerabilities across userspace programs, Google's V8 engine, and the Linux kernel. Given a vulnerability and a proof-of-vulnerability input, agents must craft a working end-to-end exploit that achieves unauthorized code execution.
15.0%
Self-reported
Terminal-Bench 3.0
#2 / 4Terminal-Bench 3.0 is a release of the Terminal-Bench benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to operate a computer via the terminal on real-world, end-to-end tasks.
28.3%
Self-reported