DeepSeek-V3.2 vs GLM-5.3

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

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
685.4 B
Context
163,840
30d
7.6 M
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-V3.2 GLM-5.3
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 685.4 B 753.3 B
Architecture DeepseekV32ForCausalLM GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
Context length 163,840 1,048,576
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 7,616,440 2,016,722
Downloads all time 35.7 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2025-12-01 2026-08-25
API input price / 1M tokens $0.26 $0.07
API output price / 1M tokens $0.38 $1.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $0.64 $1.47
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.13 $0.069
AA Intelligence Index — 31.7
AA Coding Index 44.2 74.8
AA Agentic Index — 53.1
Max output tokens 147,456 943,718
API providers 7 36
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V3.2 $0.64
GLM-5.3 $1.47

DeepSeek-V3.2 is 2.3× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

7.6 M304 K
DeepSeek-V3.2 GLM-5.3

VRAM side by side

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

DeepSeek-V3.2 · fp16 @ 160K ctx 2,815.1 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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