GLM-5.3

Zhipu AIMCP Tool CallReasoning
zhipuai/glm-5.3Open Weights

Flagship GLM model for long-horizon coding, agents, and complex project delivery

Benchmark Pricing$1.20 / 1M in$4.18 / 1M out$0.30 cache read
Context: 1,000,000 tokens•Max Output: 131,072 tokens•Released: 2026-08-14

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Context Window1,000,0001M tokens
Max Output131,072131.1K tokens
LicenseOpen SourceSelf-hostable
Input Modalities
Text
Function / Tool CallingSupported (MCP Ready)
Structured OutputsGuaranteed Schema

MODEL CONTEXT PROTOCOL (MCP) READINESS

✓ GLM-5.3 natively supports OpenAI / Anthropic format tool calling and is fully compatible with MCP servers and agent loops.

MCP Context Window Recommendations

With a context capacity of 1,000,000 tokens, this model can handle extremely large MCP resource manifests, complete database schemas, and multiple active server tool definitions simultaneously without degradation.

STANDARDIZED BENCHMARKS & EVALS

Terminal-Benchpass@1
88.2
Terminal-Benchavg@3
28.3
DeepSWEresolved
66.9
NL2Reposcore
58
ProgramBenchalmost solved
19
FrontierSWEdominance score
78.1
SWE-Marathonscore
42.5
PostTrainBenchweighted average
39.8
CyberGympass@1
84.5
ExploitGymtasks solved
105
ExploitGymtasks solved
130
ExploitBenchaverage coverage
54.4
Toolathlon-Verifiedpass@1
73
AutomationBenchpass@1
48.2
Agents' Last Examscore
28.5
Humanity's Last Examaccuracy
62.5
GDPval-AAElo
1769

API CALL INVOCATION EXAMPLE

// Example: Calling GLM-5.3 via OpenAI SDK
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  apiKey: process.env.ZHIPUAI_API_KEY,
});

const response = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "zhipuai/glm-5.3",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello! Can you inspect MCP tools?" }],
});

console.log(response.choices[0].message.content);

PRICING BY PROVIDER

15 providers
Zhipu AIglm-5.3
$1.20 / $4.18$0.30 cache
Cortecsglm-5.3
$0.51 / $2.04$0.15 cache
Z.AI Coding Planglm-5.3-highspeed
$0.00 / $0.00$0.00 cache
ClinePasscline-pass/glm-5.3
$1.40 / $4.40$0.26 cache
Volcengine Ark Coding Planglm-5.3
$0.00 / $0.00$0.00 cache
NanoGPTz-ai/glm-5.3
$0.60 / $1.10$0.20 cache
RunInfrazai-org/GLM-5.3
$1.30 / $4.20$0.13 cache
Scalewayglm-5.3
$2.01 / $6.15
Vultrglm-5.3
$0.75 / $3.00
GreenPTglm-5.3
$1.28 / $5.11$0.32 cache
OpenCode Goglm-5.3
$1.40 / $4.40$0.26 cache
Mistralzai-glm-5-3
$1.40 / $4.40$0.14 cache
TokenGoz-ai/glm-5.3
$1.40 / $4.40$0.26 cache
Charm Hyperglm-5.3
$1.52 / $4.79$0.28 cache
MoarkGLM-5.3
$1.20 / $4.18

Rates in USD per 1M tokens. Rates synchronized from models.dev public catalog.

Prompt Caching Active

This model supports prompt caching at $0.30 / 1M tokens, saving up to 75% on repetitive MCP tool definitions and system instructions.