GLM-5.3 vs Hy3-preview

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

zai-org · A · Open weights
Params
753.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
1.9 M
tencent · B · Open weights
Params
298.8 B
Context
262,144
30d
85 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5.3 Hy3-preview
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 753.3 B 298.8 B
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM HYV3ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 262,144
Licence other other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages 2 —
Downloads 30d 1,942,665 84,611
Downloads all time 3.1 M 491 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-25 2026-04-13
API input price / 1M tokens $0.079 $0.18
API output price / 1M tokens $1.40 $0.60
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.48 $0.78
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.078 $0.06
AA Intelligence Index 44.8 25.3
AA Coding Index 74.8 58.8
AA Agentic Index 53.1 24.1
Max output tokens 943,718 235,929
API providers 37 1
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
Hy3-preview $0.78

Hy3-preview is 1.9× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 50 days (5 Sep – 24 Oct)

1.9 M88 K
GLM-5.3 Hy3-preview

VRAM side by side

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

Hy3-preview · fp16 @ 256K ctx 2,092.0 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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