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What is GLM-5.3?

GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s frontier coding model built to improve complex software engineering, long-horizon agent work, and advanced technical reasoning through scaled post-training. The model uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with performance gains coming from additional post-training environments, more diverse tasks, and expanded compute on the existing training stack. Z.ai’s stack includes IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks, and slime for large-scale asynchronous post-training. GLM-5.3 is designed to perform better on work that resembles real engineering tasks rather than short coding exercises. Its training environments include production-style workflows where the model must diagnose bottlenecks, inspect documentation, use codebases, run experiments, implement changes, and produce measurable improvements. The model improves coding performance across public and private benchmarks, including Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents’ Last Exam, and Z.ai Code Bench. GLM-5.3 also improves token efficiency, producing stronger agentic coding results than GLM-5.2 while using fewer output tokens in Z.ai’s internal evaluations. The model supports three reasoning effort levels, low, high, and max, and no longer supports disabling thinking. Z.ai recommends max reasoning effort for coding tasks, while applications using disabled thinking must migrate to enabled thinking before switching to GLM-5.3. The release also reports emergent cyber capabilities, including stronger vulnerability discovery and exploitation-chain reasoning, with open-weight release planned after safety evaluation and hardening. By combining scaled post-training, long-context infrastructure, long-horizon reinforcement learning, coding-agent workflows, benchmark improvements, reasoning controls, and ZCode integration, GLM-5.3 helps developers and researchers work on demanding coding and agentic tasks.

What is Claude Sonnet 5.5?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic’s faster, lower-cost Claude 5.5 model for well-scoped professional work, software development, agentic workflows, and content creation. Anthropic positions it below Claude Opus 5.5 for the most complex open-ended work, but says it can perform comparably on some benchmarks when run at higher effort settings. The model delivers a particularly large improvement in coding, including a 70.6% result on Terminal-Bench 4.0, 46.2% on FrontierCode at Max effort, and 55.5% on CursorBench 4.0. It also scores 1844 on GDPval-AA, 1811 on AA-Briefcase, 64.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam with tools, and 80.1% on OSWorld 2.1 partial. Anthropic reports that Sonnet 5.5 is better at long-horizon work, image understanding, collaboration, and codebase comprehension than Sonnet 5. The company also highlights design-oriented improvements, including the ability to produce polished documents, spreadsheets, slides, and user interfaces with less editing. Sonnet 5.5 generates output more than 30% faster than its predecessor and is Anthropic’s fastest Sonnet model to date. Although its listed token prices are unchanged from Sonnet 5, Anthropic says greater token efficiency can reduce per-task cost by up to 30%. Pricing is $2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, $2.50 per million cache-write tokens, and $0.20 per million cache-read tokens. The model includes cyber safeguards, biology safeguards, reasoning-extraction protections, and preserved-thinking controls, with some higher-risk cyber requests falling back to Sonnet 5. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is available with zero data retention across Claude products, the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure under the model name claude-sonnet-5-5.

Media

Media

Integrations Supported

Augment Code
C#
CSS
Claude Code
Cosmos
Cursor
Dessix
Factory Droid
Go
Hermes Agent
Java
JavaScript
JetBrains Junie
OpenClaw
PHP
Python
R
SQL
Vercel AI Gateway
Yonoo

Integrations Supported

Augment Code
C#
CSS
Claude Code
Cosmos
Cursor
Dessix
Factory Droid
Go
Hermes Agent
Java
JavaScript
JetBrains Junie
OpenClaw
PHP
Python
R
SQL
Vercel AI Gateway
Yonoo

API Availability

Has API

API Availability

Has API

Pricing Information

Free
Open source
Free Version

Pricing Information

$2 per 1M tokens (input)
$2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

Cache reads, which account for most costs in agentic and coding workloads, are priced at just $0.20 per million tokens

Supported Platforms

SaaS
Windows
Mac
On-Prem
Linux

Supported Platforms

SaaS

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Customer Service / Support

Web-Based Support

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Training Options

Documentation Hub

Company Facts

Organization Name

Z.ai

Date Founded

2023

Company Location

China

Company Website

z.ai/

Company Facts

Organization Name

Anthropic

Date Founded

2021

Company Location

United States

Company Website

claude.ai

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Foundation Models

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Large Language Models

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Categories and Features

AI Coding Models

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AI Models

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AI Vision Models

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