Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
LLMfamily

GLM

LLM from Z.ai (Zhipu).

Z.ai (Zhipu)
Levelfamily
ClassLLM
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Releasednot in the notes
Opennessunknown
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

vendor-reportedindependent
Arena Text leaderboardhuman preference arena
GLM-5.3glm-5.3-maxindependent
1,478 ±5
rank 27, Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
GLM-5.2glm-5.2-maxindependent
1,475 ±4
Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
GLM-5.3-Flashindependent
1,475 ±5
rank 38, Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
GLM-5.1independent
1,464 ±4
1,2001,4001,600

Score in Elo; the axis starts at 1,200, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.

Arena Text overall8 Oct 2026 arena.ai
GLM-5.3GLM-5.3 (Max)independent
45
rank 2, Artificial Analysis open-weights viewartificialanalysis.ai, artificialanalysis.ai
GLM-5.3maxindependent
45
03060

Score in index. Higher is better.

rank 29 of 205, AA leaderboard, 205 current models10 Oct 2026 artificialanalysis.ai
GLM-Imageindependent
891 +-7; 95% interval 884 to 898
5009001,300

Score in Elo; the axis starts at 500, as Elo has no zero. Higher is better.

rank 107, AA Text-to-Image leaderboard, overall11 Oct 2026 artificialanalysis.ai
BFCLagents and tool use
GLM-4 (0520)Berkeley Function Call overallvendor-reported
81.76
04590

Score in score. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
GLM-5.3mini-swe-agentvendor-reported
66.9
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

GPQAknowledge and reasoning
GLM-4 (0520)vendor-reported
39.9
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
GSM8Kmath
GLM-4 (0520)vendor-reported
93.3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
HumanEvalcoding
GLM-4 (0520)vendor-reported
78.5
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
Humanity's Last Exam (HLE)knowledge and reasoning
GLM-5.3with toolsvendor-reported
62.5
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

IFEvalknowledge and reasoning
GLM-4 (0520)English, prompt-level strictvendor-reported
79.1
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
MATHmath
GLM-4 (0520)vendor-reported
61.3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
MMLUknowledge and reasoning
GLM-4 (0520)vendor-reported
83.3
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

18 Jun 2024 arxiv.org
GLM-5.2max effortvendor-reported
62.1
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

GLM-5.2third-party via Thinking Machinesindependent
80
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

tau2-benchagents and tool use
GLM-5.2Artificial Analysis telecom runindependent
99.1
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

rank 1, BenchLM aggregator, top score10 Oct 2026 benchlm.ai
Terminal-Bench 2.1agents and tool use
GLM-5.3vendor-reported
88.2
GLM-5.3Claude Code 2.1.207vendor-reported
88.2
GLM-5.2vendor-reported
81
050100

Score in %. Higher is better.

Terminal-Bench 3.0agents and tool use
GLM-5.3vendor-reported
28.3
01530

Score. Higher is better.

Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5.3 belongs to this familyLLM25 Aug 2026753B
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5.3-Flash belongs to this familymultimodal LLM25 Aug 2026320B
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5.2 belongs to this familyLLM13 Jun 2026753B
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5.1 belongs to this familyLLM3 Apr 2026
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5V-Turbo belongs to this familymultimodal LLM1 Apr 2026
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-Image belongs to this familyimage generationJan 2026
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4.6V belongs to this familymultimodal LLM8 Dec 2025106B
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4.5V belongs to this familymultimodal LLM11 Aug 2025106B
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4.5 belongs to this familyLLM8 Aug 2025355B
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4 (0520) belongs to this familyLLM
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4-9B-0414 belongs to this familyLLM
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4.5-Air-Base belongs to this familyLLM
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4.6 belongs to this familyLLM
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-4.7 belongs to this familyLLM
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5 belongs to this familyLLM
Z.ai (Zhipu)GLM-5.3-FlashX belongs to this familyLLM
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Z.ai (Zhipu)
Family
not in the notes
Released
– sources
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
not in the notes
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Context length
not in the notes
Input
not in the notes
Output
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
unknown
Licence
not in the notes sources
Access routes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
not in the notes
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Pricing - Overview - Z.AI DEVELOPER DOCUMENT docs.z.ai https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing
  2. huggingface.co/zai-org https://huggingface.co/zai-org

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "GLM", https://aurion.semai.id/models/zhipu-zai-glm/, records of October 2026.