GLM-5.3 vs Beam-1.0-501B-A23B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
753.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
2.0 M
reflection · B · Open weights
Params
501.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
4 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5.3 Beam-1.0-501B-A23B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 753.3 B 501.3 B
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM BeamForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 1,048,576
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 2 1
Downloads 30d 2,043,783 4,432
Downloads all time 3.2 M 4 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-25 2026-10-07
API input price / 1M tokens $0.079 $0.25
API output price / 1M tokens $1.40 $1.00
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.48 $1.25
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.078 $0.05
AA Intelligence Index 44.8 —
AA Coding Index 74.8 —
AA Agentic Index 53.1 —
Max output tokens 943,718 131,072
API providers 37 6
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

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

GLM-5.3 $1.48
Beam-1.0-501B-A23B $1.25

Beam-1.0-501B-A23B is 1.2× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 51 days (5 Sep – 25 Oct)

2.0 M2 K
GLM-5.3 Beam-1.0-501B-A23B

VRAM side by side

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

Beam-1.0-501B-A23B · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 10,727.8 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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