GLM-5.3 vs Nex-N2.5-Pro
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 25 October 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | GLM-5.3 | Nex-N2.5-Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 753.3 B | 396.8 B |
| Architecture | GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM | Qwen3_5MoeForConditionalGeneration |
| Context length | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | 2 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 2,043,783 | 1,880 |
| Downloads all time | 3.2 M | 34 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-25 | 2026-09-08 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.079 | $0.075 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.40 | $0.25 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.48 | $0.33 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.078 | $0.015 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 44.8 | — |
| AA Coding Index | 74.8 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 53.1 | — |
| 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
Nex-N2.5-Pro
$0.33
Nex-N2.5-Pro is 4.6× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 51 days (5 Sep – 25 Oct)
2.0 M2 K
GLM-5.3
Nex-N2.5-Pro
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Nex-N2.5-Pro · fp16
507.9 GB / 24 GB
GLM-5.3 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
15,295.6 GB / 24 GB