GLM-5.3 vs Hy4-preview

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
tencent · B · Open weights
Params
780.0 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
18 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5.3 Hy4-preview
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 753.3 B 780.0 B
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM HYV4ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 1,048,576
Licence other apache-2.0
Commercial use Unknown Allowed
Languages 2 —
Downloads 30d 2,043,783 18,369
Downloads all time 3.2 M 39 K
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-25 2026-08-27
API input price / 1M tokens $0.079 $0.83
API output price / 1M tokens $1.40 $2.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $1.48 $3.34
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.078 $0.042
AA Intelligence Index 44.8 —
AA Coding Index 74.8 —
AA Agentic Index 53.1 —
Max output tokens 943,718 64,000
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
Hy4-preview $3.34

GLM-5.3 is 2.3× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

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

2.0 M18 K
GLM-5.3 Hy4-preview

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
Hy4-preview · fp16 @ 1024K ctx 16,691.7 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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