GLM-5.3 hits API at $1.40/$4.40 per million tokens

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 is now available via API at $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens. It scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, up 7 points from GLM-5.2, and reportedly found a vulnerability in Cursor.
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GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokensventurebeat.com
An industrial-scale distillation of models, or subtle benchmaxxing: What developers really think of GLM-5.3thenewstack.io
GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model
- Aug 21
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