GLM-5.3 vs Claude Haiku 5.5

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
753.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.9 M
anthropic · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.10
Output / 1M
$0.50
AA index
43.4
proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5.3 Claude Haiku 5.5
Deployment Open weights · also via API API-only (closed weights)
Parameters 753.3 B n/a — API-only
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM n/a — API-only
Context length 1,048,576 1,000,000
Licence other Proprietary
Commercial use Unknown Per API terms
Languages 2 n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d 1,942,665 n/a — API-only
Downloads all time 3.1 M n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS n/a — API-only
Gated No n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-25 n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $0.079 $0.10
API output price / 1M tokens $1.40 $0.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.48 $0.60
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.078 $0.01
AA Intelligence Index 44.8 43.4
AA Coding Index 74.8 —
AA Agentic Index 53.1 —
Max output tokens 943,718 128,000
API providers 37 5
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
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.60

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 2.5× cheaper at list price.

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

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