DeepSeek-V3-0324 vs GLM-5.3

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
684.5 B
Context
163,840
30d
150 K
mit · commercial OK
zai-org · B · Open weights
Params
753.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
2.0 M

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification DeepSeek-V3-0324 GLM-5.3
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 684.5 B 753.3 B
Architecture DeepseekV3ForCausalLM GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 1,048,576
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 149,937 2,016,722
Downloads all time 10.5 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-03-24 2026-08-25
API input price / 1M tokens $0.29 $0.07
API output price / 1M tokens $1.14 $1.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.43 $1.47
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.11 $0.069
AA Intelligence Index — 31.7
AA Coding Index 21.2 74.8
AA Agentic Index 0.8 53.1
Max output tokens 115,200 943,718
API providers 2 36
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode No Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

DeepSeek-V3-0324 $1.43
GLM-5.3 $1.47

DeepSeek-V3-0324 is 1.0× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)

2.5 M150 K
DeepSeek-V3-0324 GLM-5.3

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

DeepSeek-V3-0324 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,811.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
GLM-5.3 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 15,295.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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