What are the hardware requirements for GLM 5.3?

GLM 5.3 requires approximately 232.2 GB of VRAM and supports a context window of 1024K tokens. Quantized variants may run on less VRAM; see the Quantized Models section on this page.

Who developed GLM 5.3 and how large is it?

GLM 5.3 is developed by zai-org, a model with 753.3b parameters. The model is published as open weights on Hugging Face and indexed on LLM Explorer with full benchmark history.

Where can I download or evaluate GLM 5.3?

GLM 5.3 is hosted on Hugging Face and linked from this page. LLM Explorer also lists quantized variants and similar alternatives if available.

GLM 5.3 by zai-org — VRAM 232.2GB, 1024K context

Name: GLM 5.3
Author: zai-org

GLM 5.3 is an open-source language model by zai-org. Features: 753.3b LLM, VRAM: 232.2GB, Context: 1024K, License: other, MoE, LLM Explorer Score: 0.55.

Arxiv:2602.15763 Conversational En Endpoints compatible Eval-results Fp8 Glm moe dsa Moe Region:us Safetensors Sharded Tensorflow Zh

Model Card on HF 🤗: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3

GLM 5.3 Parameters and Internals

LLM Name	GLM 5.3
Repository 🤗	https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3
Model Size	753.3b
Required VRAM	232.2 GB
Updated	2026-08-29
Maintainer	zai-org
Model Type	glm_moe_dsa
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Supported Languages	en zh
Model Architecture	GlmMoeDsaForCausalLM
License	other
Context Length	1048576
Model Max Length	1048576
Transformers Version	5.15.0
Vocabulary Size	154880

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