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GLM-5.3

Provider: Z.AI/Zhipu

Model type: specialist Budget: open / self-run Use it for: self-hosted stack Use it for: sensitive deployments Use it for: large batches

self-hosted pick backed by current AA.

Verdict “GLM-5.3 has IQ 44.8 and input $1.4/M in the sources. Consider it for self-hosted stack, sensitive deployments; for premium-agents, top-coding, run a second benchmark before rollout.”

Snapshot summary

Z.AI/Zhipu is a Chinese AI company behind the GLM family, relevant for open and multilingual ecosystems outside the US defaults. GLM-5.3 is a Z.AI/Zhipu model outside the US mainstream. It is relevant for multilingual scenarios, self-hosted thinking and supplier diversification.

In this compare snapshot it is tagged mainly for self-hosted, compliance, batch, with price tier free-open and context window is unavailable in verified data. The negative side matters too: watch premium-agents, top-coding. Use the numbers below as the hard boundary, because this profile explains the model, it does not replace benchmark provenance.

Figures below, fetched from source artificial_analysis (fetched 2026-09-24T04:00:35Z).

Snapshot figures

self-hosted Budget provider-dependent

44.8 intelligence index artificial_analysis:glm-5-3

What this means

✓ Good for: self-hosted stack · sensitive deployments · large batches

✗ Not for: premium agents · top coding

Source and provenance

Data source: artificial_analysis
Fetched: 2026-09-24T04:00:35Z
Status per metric: price: artificial_analysis:glm-5-3; IQ: artificial_analysis:glm-5-3; Elo: curated_seed; Aider: curated_seed; DeepSWE: curated_seed

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