GLM-5.3 Reviews

GLM-5.3

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Description

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.

Description

Inkling 2 Small is a general-purpose multimodal AI model developed by Thinking Machines Lab for software engineering, advanced reasoning, visual analysis, and autonomous agent applications. The model features a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture containing 594 billion total parameters, with approximately 17 billion parameters activated during inference. Its one-million-token context window supports processing large documents, software repositories, extended conversations, and complex collections of information. Inkling 2 Small accepts text and image inputs and generates text outputs, enabling visual reasoning, programming assistance, document analysis, and multimodal problem-solving. Its agentic coding capabilities support autonomous software development, code debugging, repository modifications, application creation, and verification of completed engineering tasks. The model can also perform extended research workflows involving machine learning experimentation, GPU kernel optimization, data analysis, and iterative scientific problem-solving. Configurable reasoning effort allows users to balance response speed and computational resources against the complexity of individual tasks. Thinking Machines Lab reports benchmark scores of 25.4% on FrontierCode 2.0, 72.1% on DeepSWE 1.1, and 86.3% on SWE-Bench Pro v2 Hard. Inkling 2 Small is available for inference and fine-tuning through Tinker, with model weights scheduled for release under the Apache 2.0 license after additional safety evaluations.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

CSS Yes 
Cherry Studio Yes 
ClinePass Yes 
Dessix Yes 
Go Yes 
HTML Yes 
JavaScript Yes 
JetBrains Junie Yes 
Kilo Code Yes 
Kotlin Yes 
LM Studio Bionic Yes 
Ollama Yes 
PyTorch Yes 
R Yes 
SQL Yes 
Shiori Yes 
Sup AI Yes 
Wafer Yes 
Yonoo Yes 
ZCode Yes 

Integrations

CSS No 
Cherry Studio No 
ClinePass No 
Dessix No 
Go No 
HTML No 
JavaScript No 
JetBrains Junie No 
Kilo Code No 
Kotlin No 
LM Studio Bionic No 
Ollama No 
PyTorch No 
R No 
SQL No 
Shiori No 
Sup AI No 
Wafer No 
Yonoo No 
ZCode No 

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Pricing Details

$0.30 per million input tokens
$0.30 per million input tokens, $0.03 per million cached input tokens, and $1.00 per million output tokens
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises Yes 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

z.ai/

Vendor Details

Company Name

Thinking Machines Lab

Founded

2025

Country

United States

Website

thinkingmachines.ai/

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