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GLM 5.3

GLM 5.3 delivers comprehensive advancements in complex software engineering and agent capabilities. It uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with all improvements driven by post-training.

TEXTREASONINGREASONINGTOOL-USEIMPLICIT-CACHING
1M
CONTEXT WINDOW
12.8K
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
$1.40
INPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
$4.40
OUTPUT PRICE / 1M TOKENS
QUICKSTART

Call it in one request.

OpenAI-compatible: change the base URL, and the setup is complete.

curl https://enterprise.blackbox.ai/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BLACKBOX_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "blackboxai/zai/glm-5.3",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello!" }],
    "stream": true
  }'
SPECIFICATIONS

The full spec sheet.

Context, pricing, modalities, routing, and deployment: everything GLM 5.3 supports, in one table.

MODEL ID
blackboxai/zai/glm-5.3
DEVELOPED BY
Z.AI
MODEL TYPE
Text
RELEASED
Aug 18, 2026
CONTEXT WINDOW
1M
MAX OUTPUT TOKENS
12.8K
INPUT MODALITIES
text
OUTPUT MODALITIES
text
INPUT PRICE
$1.40 / 1M tokens
OUTPUT PRICE
$4.40 / 1M tokens
CACHE READ
$0.26 / 1M tokens
REASONING
Supported
DATA RETENTION
Standard retention
DEDICATED DEPLOYMENT
Enterprise · single-tenant
SUPPORTED PARAMETERS
max_tokenstemperaturestoptoolstool_choicereasoninginclude_reasoning