GLM-5.3 vs Kimi-K2-Instruct

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 21 September 2026.

zai-org · A
Params
753.3 B
Context
1,048,576
30d
974 K
moonshotai · B
Params
1,026.5 B
Context
131,072
30d
219 K

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification GLM-5.3 Kimi-K2-Instruct
Parameters 753.3 B 1,026.5 B
Architecture GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM DeepseekV3ForCausalLM
Context length 1,048,576 131,072
Licence other other
Commercial use Unknown Unknown
Languages 2
Downloads 30d 974,074 218,841
Downloads all time 974 K 4.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-25 2025-07-11

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 17 days (5 Sep – 21 Sep)

974 K162 K
GLM-5.3 Kimi-K2-Instruct

VRAM side by side

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

Kimi-K2-Instruct · fp16 @ 128K ctx 3,596.1 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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