GLM-5 vs GLM-5.3-NVFP4
Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 10 November 2026.
Specification comparison
Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.
| Specification | GLM-5 | GLM-5.3-NVFP4 |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Open weights · also via API | Open weights |
| Parameters | 753.9 B | 753.3 B |
| Architecture | GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM | GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM |
| Context length | 202,752 | 1,048,576 |
| Licence | mit | other |
| Commercial use | Allowed | Unknown |
| Languages | 2 | — |
| Downloads 30d | 1,390,848 | 237,499 |
| Downloads all time | 3.4 M | 276 K |
| Quantizations on the Hub | SAFETENSORS | SAFETENSORS |
| Gated | No | No |
| First seen on the Hub | 2026-02-11 | 2026-09-14 |
| API input price / 1M tokens | $1.00 | not on OpenRouter |
| API output price / 1M tokens | $3.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens | $4.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.20 | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Intelligence Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Coding Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| AA Agentic Index | — | not on OpenRouter |
| Max output tokens | 131,072 | not on OpenRouter |
| API providers | 8 | not on OpenRouter |
| Tool calling | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
| Reasoning mode | Yes | not on OpenRouter |
API cost
Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter
GLM-5
$4.20
Download trend
Daily snapshots, last 90 days (13 Aug – 10 Nov)
1.7 M150 K
GLM-5
GLM-5.3-NVFP4
VRAM side by side
On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted
GLM-5 · fp16 @ 198K ctx
4,457.7 GB / 24 GB
GLM-5.3-NVFP4 · fp16 @ 1024K ctx
14,975.0 GB / 24 GB