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GLM 5.3 reviews
Z.ai's full-size model. It gets close to frontier quality on reasoning and code at a much lower price.
$4.40 per 1M output tokens · Intelligence 44.8
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How GLM 5.3 compares on price
GLM 5.3 scores 44.8 at $4.40 per 1M output tokens. GPT-6 Astra leads with 52.7. GLM 5.3 Flash gets 93% of its score for 1/9 of the price.
What changed since GLM 5.2
GLM 5.3 is the newer release. Reviews of GLM 5.2 stay on its own page.
| GLM 5.2 | GLM 5.3 | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price / 1M output | $4.40 | $4.40 | No change |
| Intelligence | 33.7 | 44.8 | +11.1 |
| Agentic | 38.4 | 53.1 | +14.7 |
| Coding | 68.8 | 74.8 | +6 |
| $5 free credit | ≈ 670 replies | ≈ 670 replies | No change |
Make up your own mind about GLM 5.3
Your free $5 covers about 670 typical replies from GLM 5.3, or roughly 850,000 words of writing. Run everyday work on GLM 5.3 Flash and it stretches to about 5,900. No card needed.
How we estimate: a typical reply is about 550 words, written with about 3,750 words of conversation sent along with it, at Saaga's billed price for GLM 5.3. Long documents, file uploads and agents that call tools use more per reply; quick questions use less. “Words of writing” counts output only.
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