GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3

Z.ai
Kimi K3

Kimi K3

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 is Moonshot AI’s most capable model, built for frontier intelligence scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep reasoning, and multimodal understanding. The model has 2.8 trillion parameters and uses Kimi Delta Attention, a hybrid linear attention mechanism, along with Attention Residuals for long-context performance. Kimi K3 supports a 1 million token context window, making it useful for analyzing large codebases, long documents, complex knowledge bases, and multi-step workflows. It includes native visual understanding for images and videos, with support for structured message formats, base64 image input, uploaded video files, and multimodal reasoning. Developers can use Kimi K3 through an OpenAI-compatible API with support for streaming, structured JSON output, partial mode, custom tools, dynamic tool loading, and automatic context caching.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

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

Developers, AI agent builders, software engineering teams, research teams, enterprise AI groups, data teams, product teams, and organizations that need long-context reasoning, multimodal understanding, structured output, tool calling, coding support, and OpenAI-compatible API access

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

Free
Open source
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$3 per 1M tokens (input)
Kimi K3 is priced per 1 million tokens:

Cached input: $0.30
Uncached input: $3.00
Output: $15.00
Context window: 1,048,576 tokens

Cached inputs cost 90% less than uncached inputs, while generated output is the most expensive token category. Prices exclude applicable taxes, which are calculated based on the customer’s jurisdiction.
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

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

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 5.0 / 5
ease 5.0 / 5
features 5.0 / 5
design 5.0 / 5
support 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

  • Kimi K3 looks seriously exciting from the perspective of a developer and AI agent builder. The 1M-token context window is the kind of thing that actually matters when you are working with large repos, long docs, product specs, logs, and messy multi-step agent workflows. I also like that Kimi is positioning it around long-horizon coding and end-to-end knowledge work, not just generic chat. The native visual understanding, tool calling support, and deep reasoning focus make it feel like a model built for agents that need to read, plan, inspect, code, and iterate across a real workflow. The 2.8T-parameter scale is also hard to ignore. If the real-world performance matches the positioning, Kimi K3 could be a very strong option for developers who want frontier-level capability with long context and multimodal inputs in the same stack.

Cons

  • It is still new, so I would want to test it heavily before depending on it for production agents. Big context windows are useful, but they do not automatically guarantee perfect repo understanding, reliable tool use, or consistent long-running execution.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

Z.ai
Founded: 2023
China
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Company Information

Moonshot AI
Founded: 2023
China
kimi.ai

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Integrations

APIFree
Augment Code
C#
Cherry Studio
Claude Code
ClinePass
Factory Droid
Go
Hermes Agent
Java
JetBrains Junie
Kotlin
OpenClaw
PHP
Python
R
Rust
SQL
Tabbit Browser
Together AI
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