GLM-5.3 vs Grok 4.6
API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.
x-ai · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
AA index
44.3
proprietary · 500K context
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | GLM-5.3 | Grok 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 500,000 |
| 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 | $2.00 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.40 | $6.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.48 | $8.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.078 | $0.50 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 44.8 | 44.3 |
| AA Coding Index | 74.8 | 76.8 |
| AA Agentic Index | 53.1 | 53 |
| Max output tokens | 943,718 | 450,000 |
| API providers | 37 | 2 |
| 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
Grok 4.6
$8.00
GLM-5.3 is 5.4× 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