GLM-5.3 vs MiniMax-Text-01
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | GLM-5.3 | MiniMax-Text-01 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 753.3 B | 456.1 B |
| Architecture | GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM | MiniMaxText01ForCausalLM |
| Context length | 1,048,576 | 10,240,000 |
| Licence | other | — |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Unknown |
| Languages | 2 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,043,783 | 2,675 |
| Downloads all time | 3.2 M | 92 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-25 | 2025-01-12 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.079 | $0.20 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.40 | $1.10 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.48 | $1.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.078 | — |
| AA Intelligence Index | 44.8 | — |
| AA Coding Index | 74.8 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 53.1 | — |
| Max output tokens | 943,718 | 900,172 |
| API providers | 37 | 1 |
| Tool calling | Yes | No |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
GLM-5.3
$1.48
MiniMax-Text-01
$1.30
MiniMax-Text-01 is 1.1× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 51 days (5 Sep – 25 Oct)
2.0 M3 K
GLM-5.3
MiniMax-Text-01
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
MiniMax-Text-01 · fp16 @ 10000K ctx
86,523.5 GB / 24 GB