GLM-5.3 vs Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.
Qwen · B · Open weights
Params
480.2 B
Context
262,144
30d
54 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | GLM-5.3 | Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights · also via API |
| Parameters | 753.3 B | 480.2 B |
| Architecture | GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM | Qwen3MoeForCausalLM |
| Context length | 1,048,576 | 262,144 |
| Licence | other | apache-2.0 |
| Commercial use | Unknown | Allowed |
| Languages | 2 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,942,665 | 54,127 |
| Downloads all time | 3.1 M | 1.2 M |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-08-25 | 2025-07-22 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $0.079 | $0.30 |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $1.40 | $1.00 |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $1.48 | $1.30 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.078 | $0.10 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 44.8 | 11.9 |
| AA Coding Index | 74.8 | — |
| AA Agentic Index | 53.1 | — |
| Max output tokens | 943,718 | 65,536 |
| API providers | 37 | 3 |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | No |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
GLM-5.3
$1.48
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
$1.30
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is 1.1× cheaper at list price.
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 50 days (5 Sep – 24 Oct)
1.9 M42 K
GLM-5.3
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct · fp16 @ 256K ctx
3,361.6 GB / 24 GB
GLM-5.3 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
15,295.6 GB / 24 GB