DeepSeek-V4-Pro vs GLM-5.3

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

deepseek-ai · A · Open weights
Params
1,598.8 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
336 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-V4-Pro GLM-5.3
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 1,598.8 B 753.3 B
Architecture DeepseekV4ForCausalLM GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 1,048,576
Licence mit other
Commercial use Allowed Unknown
Languages — 2
Downloads 30d 335,647 2,016,722
Downloads all time 11.2 M 4.3 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-04-22 2026-08-25
API input price / 1M tokens $0.96 $0.07
API output price / 1M tokens $1.91 $1.40
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $2.87 $1.47
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.08 $0.069
AA Intelligence Index 12.6 31.7
AA Coding Index — 74.8
AA Agentic Index — 53.1
Max output tokens 384,000 943,718
API providers 12 36
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

DeepSeek-V4-Pro $2.87
GLM-5.3 $1.47

GLM-5.3 is 1.9× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

2.5 M304 K
DeepSeek-V4-Pro GLM-5.3

VRAM side by side

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

GLM-5.3 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 15,295.6 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
DeepSeek-V4-Pro · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 31,649.4 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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