GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3

Z.ai
Kimi K3.1 Pro

Kimi K3.1 Pro

Moonshot AI
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About

GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s frontier coding model designed for complex software engineering, long-horizon agent tasks, and advanced post-training research. The model uses the same base model as GLM-5.2, with improvements coming from scaled post-training across more environments, more diverse tasks, and larger compute investment. GLM-5.3 delivers stronger coding performance, better task ownership, improved benchmark results, and greater efficiency across realistic development workflows. It is built to handle complex coding tasks, production-style engineering work, research environments, automation tasks, and agentic workflows that require multi-step execution. The model also shows emergent cyber capabilities in vulnerability discovery and exploitation-chain reasoning, with safety evaluation and hardening planned before open-weight release.

About

Kimi K3.1 Pro is a multimodal large language model developed by Moonshot AI for advanced reasoning, software development, 3D modeling, financial analysis, and autonomous AI agent workflows. The model uses a mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 2.8 trillion total parameters and 104 billion active parameters, supporting a context window of one million tokens. Its coding capabilities include debugging existing applications, generating complete software projects, developing interactive websites, and creating applications with game engines. Kimi K3.1 Pro can analyze images, interpret spatial relationships, generate CAD scripts, and create three-dimensional assets from text descriptions or visual references. Its reasoning and tool-use capabilities support financial modeling, investment research, document analysis, and multistep business workflows. The model is available through Kimi's web and mobile applications, Kimi Work, Kimi Code, and the Kimi API, with a Highspeed variant.

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Platforms Supported

Windows Supported
Mac Supported
Linux Supported
Cloud Supported
On-Premises Supported
iPhone Not Supported
iPad Not Supported
Android Not Supported
Chromebook Not Supported

Audience

Software engineers, coding agent builders, AI researchers, ML infrastructure teams, security researchers, developer tool teams, automation teams, technical leaders, and organizations that need frontier coding models, long-horizon reasoning, production-style software engineering, benchmark-driven model evaluation, reinforcement learning research, coding-agent integrations, reasoning effort controls, ZCode workflows, and advanced technical task automation

Audience

Software developers, AI engineers, researchers, financial analysts, and teams building applications or agentic workflows with AI models.

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

Support

Phone Support Not Supported
24/7 Live Support Not Supported
Online Supported

API

Offers API Supported

API

Offers API Supported

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Open source
Free Version Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Pricing

$2 per 1M tokens
API usage is pay-as-you-go: $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Cached input is $0.20 per million tokens; cache writes are $2 per million tokens. Kimi Code also provides tier-based membership access, with quotas and context limits depending on the tier.
Free Version Not Supported
Free Trial Not Supported

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • The thing I like most is that GLM-5.3 feels aimed at serious engineering work, not casual prompting. It is built around coding agents, long-running software tasks, debugging, and the kind of multi-step execution that actually matters when you are working inside real repos. The post-training jump is also interesting. Z.ai is not just talking about a bigger model; it is pushing the idea that better training on agentic coding and cyber workflows can make the model more useful in practice.

Cons

  • The cybersecurity angle is impressive, but it is also where I would be most cautious. Strong vulnerability discovery and cyber reasoning can be useful for defense, audits, and secure engineering, but I would want very clear controls around how it is used.

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • I can give it a large coding job, a research project, or a multi-step agent workflow and it does a much better job staying organized all the way through. Coding is probably the biggest jump. Moonshot reports a 65.7% score on Terminal-Bench 4.0, ahead of GPT-6 Astra’s reported 58.2% and just behind Claude Opus 5.5 at 66.4%. It feels especially good for terminal work, repo-level changes, and tasks where the agent has to keep using tools for a while. The 1M-token context window is also genuinely useful. I can keep a huge amount of source code, documentation, financial material, screenshots, and prior work in context without constantly trimming things down.

Cons

  • The main downside is that the full weights are not available yet. Moonshot says they will be released soon, so the open-weight story is promising, but I would wait for that release before judging local deployment and customization.

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Training

Documentation Supported
Webinars Not Supported
Live Online Not Supported
In Person Not Supported

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2023
China
z.ai/

Company Information

Moonshot AI
Founded: 2023
China
www.kimi.ai/

Alternatives

Alternatives

GLM-5

GLM-5

Z.ai
Kimi K2

Kimi K2

Moonshot AI
GLM-5.1

GLM-5.1

Z.ai
Kimi K3

Kimi K3

Moonshot AI

Categories

Categories

Integrations

C Supported
CSS Supported
Cheaper Inference Supported
Claude Code Supported
Cosmos Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Go Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
Java Supported
JavaScript Supported
Kotlin Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
PHP Supported
Python Supported
Rust Supported
SQL Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
TypeScript Supported

Integrations

C Supported
CSS Supported
Cheaper Inference Supported
Claude Code Supported
Cosmos Supported
Factory Droid Supported
Go Supported
Hermes Agent Supported
Java Supported
JavaScript Supported
Kotlin Supported
Ollama Supported
OpenCode Go Supported
OpenCode Zen Supported
PHP Supported
Python Supported
Rust Supported
SQL Supported
Tabbit Browser Supported
TypeScript Supported
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