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GLM-4.6 builds upon the foundations laid by its predecessor, showcasing enhanced reasoning, coding, and agent capabilities, resulting in notable advancements in inferential accuracy, improved tool usage during reasoning tasks, and a more seamless integration within agent frameworks. In comprehensive benchmark evaluations that assess reasoning, coding, and agent performance, GLM-4.6 surpasses GLM-4.5 and competes robustly against other models like DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and Claude Sonnet 4, although it still lags behind Claude Sonnet 4.5 in terms of coding capabilities. Furthermore, when subjected to practical tests utilizing an extensive “CC-Bench” suite that includes tasks in front-end development, tool creation, data analysis, and algorithmic challenges, GLM-4.6 outperforms GLM-4.5 while nearing parity with Claude Sonnet 4, achieving victory in approximately 48.6% of direct comparisons and demonstrating around 15% improved token efficiency. This latest model is accessible through the Z.ai API, providing developers the flexibility to implement it as either an LLM backend or as the core of an agent within the platform's API ecosystem. In addition, its advancements could significantly enhance productivity in various application domains, making it an attractive option for developers looking to leverage cutting-edge AI technology.

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GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s advanced coding and agentic reasoning model built through scaled post-training on top of the GLM-5.2 base model. The release focuses on frontier coding, long-horizon software engineering, agent tasks, cyber evaluation, and reinforcement learning at scale. GLM-5.3 improves significantly over GLM-5.2 on complex coding benchmarks, real-world engineering environments, Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents’ Last Exam, and Z.ai’s internal Code Bench. The model is trained on environments that resemble real professional work, including tasks involving codebases, infrastructure, documentation, compute clusters, experiments, bottleneck diagnosis, implementation, testing, and measurable optimization. Z.ai’s post-training stack includes IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks, and slime for large-scale asynchronous training. GLM-5.3 supports three thinking effort levels, including low, high, and max, with max recommended for coding tasks. The model also demonstrates emergent cyber capabilities across vulnerability discovery and exploitation benchmarks, prompting continued safety evaluation and hardening before weights are released. GLM-5.3 can be used through the GLM Coding Plan, ZCode, Claude Code, OpenCode, and other coding agent workflows. By combining stronger coding performance, long-horizon task execution, post-training scale, cyber evaluation, reasoning effort controls, and coding-agent integrations, GLM-5.3 supports advanced developer and research workflows.

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API Access

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Integrations

Claude Code
Cline
GLM Coding Plan
Kilo Code
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
Roo Code
Shiori
Sup AI
Amp
Claw Code
Cursor
HTML
Hermes Agent
Java
JetBrains Junie
Rust
Swift
TypeScript
Yonoo

Integrations

Claude Code
Cline
GLM Coding Plan
Kilo Code
OpenClaw
OpenRouter
Roo Code
Shiori
Sup AI
Amp
Claw Code
Cursor
HTML
Hermes Agent
Java
JetBrains Junie
Rust
Swift
TypeScript
Yonoo

Pricing Details

Free
Free Trial
Free Version

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial
Free Version

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Linux
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Deployment

Web-Based
On-Premises
iPhone App
iPad App
Android App
Windows
Mac
Linux
Chromebook

Customer Support

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Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support

Customer Support

Business Hours
Live Rep (24/7)
Online Support

Types of Training

Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person

Types of Training

Training Docs
Webinars
Live Training (Online)
In Person

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

z.ai/blog/glm-4.6

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

z.ai/

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