Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash ranks first on 3 of the 165 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Z.ai Released August 20th, 2026 Compare with others
165
Benchmarks with a score
3
Ranked first, out of five or more models
9
In the top three
Z.ai Aug 2026

GLM-5.3-Flash

Open weights

153.8 #52 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 158.8 #39 of 404
  • DeepSWE 63.4% #13 /28
  • NL2Repo-Bench 56.3% #10 /30
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 36.7% #18 /40

Where it ranks

Its best score on each benchmark, and where that ranks among every model with a score there. We rank each model once, at its best setting.

Knowledge and language

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMArena (Elo) 1,474 #33 of 335 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 55.3% #25 of 154 Lab model card
HABIT-Bench 42% #1 of 6 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,269 #13 of 77 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 60.1% #11 of 47 Official leaderboard
AgentIF (2026-10 setting) 64.4% #8 of 24 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 66.9% #20 of 49 Official leaderboard
Hemingway-bench 1,034 #20 of 42 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,227 #49 of 85 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding v2 56.1% #22 of 25 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 90.2% #47 of 229 Epoch AI run
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 93.9% #56 of 212 Epoch AI run
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 90% #7 of 23 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI-2 65.8% #30 of 98 Official leaderboard
PHYSICS-Verified 85.3% #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 91% #31 of 95 Official leaderboard
NatureBench 11.1% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 55.8% #48 of 86 Official leaderboard
Surface Evolver Bench 52.5% #15 of 25 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 17.1% #51 of 68 Official leaderboard
ProofBench v1.1 21% #41 of 52 Official leaderboard
PhysClosureBench 3.28 #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
BTF-3 0.15 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Science's Last Exam 21.3 #8 of 9 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DesignArena UI Component 1,298 #24 of 139 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,607 #19 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
DesignArena SVG 1,272 #20 of 103 Official leaderboard
DesignArena 3D Design 1,296 #27 of 136 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,609 #30 of 128 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,268 #36 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,267 #36 of 143 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified Extended 66% #12 of 44 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,258 #49 of 151 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,257 #39 of 118 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 56.3% #10 of 30 Lab model card
StructEval 76.2% #10 of 28 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,582 #21 of 55 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 46.1% #25 of 65 Official leaderboard
Vision2Web 77.8% #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
FDE-Gym 0.22 #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Video to Website 1,195 #8 of 19 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 63.4% #13 of 28 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.2 36.8% #10 of 21 Official leaderboard
ReactBench 32.8% #14 of 28 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Image to HTML 1,207 #26 of 51 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 52.5% #24 of 45 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 51.6% #16 of 30 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,283 #74 of 126 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 75.8% #28 of 47 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 30.8% #79 of 120 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 20.5% #52 of 78 Official leaderboard
Chart Arena 1,469 #10 of 15 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 12.5% #13 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 16% #18 of 26 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas v1.1 55.3% #21 of 28 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 18.1% #20 of 25 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon v1.1 38.8% #16 of 20 Official leaderboard
Z.ai Code Bench 29% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 36.8% #18 of 21 cursor.com, via Epoch AI
CursorBench 4.0 36.8% #18 of 21 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 14.9% #28 of 32 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 1.70 #18 of 19 Official leaderboard
SWE-Clar 39% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Toolathlon-Verified 78.4% #1 of 25 Official leaderboard
AppWorld Test-Challenge 92.8% #1 of 12 Official leaderboard
AppWorld Test-Normal 93.5% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 572 #39 of 123 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 48.8% #15 of 47 Lab model card
Terminal-Bench 2.1 84.3% #19 of 56 Lab model card
Terminal-Bench 4.1 37% #19 of 43 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 36.7% #18 of 40 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 59.1% #10 of 19 Lab model card
GAIA 43.9% #35 of 64 Official leaderboard
DuelLab GameBench 2 60.8 #36 of 57 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 30% #28 of 44 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena -2.95% #38 of 56 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 67% #23 of 32 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 21% #69 of 93 Epoch AI run
RuneBench 3.83 #57 of 76 Official leaderboard
CivBench 1,468 #15 of 19 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 68.9% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 8.00% #75 of 84 Epoch AI run
Web Context (Nimble) 64.2% #11 of 11 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedScribe 88.9% #9 of 97 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,773 #3 of 27 Lab model card
TaxEval v2 75.6% #16 of 129 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 57.9% #14 of 80 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 45.2% #23 of 93 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.9% #45 of 138 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 31.6% #29 of 84 Official leaderboard
CorpBench Work 84.6 #6 of 17 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 6.67% #32 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vals Legal Index 71% #16 of 38 Official leaderboard
BlenderWorld 59.7 #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 52.8% #30 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
FrontierCAD Parts 0.33 #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 1.1 66.8% #33 of 65 Official leaderboard
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 46.7% #26 of 51 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Finance 7.30% #20 of 39 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 2.58 #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 47.2% #38 of 65 Official leaderboard
MedXpertQA MM Extended 52.9% #24 of 41 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 10.4% #23 of 38 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 60.6% #25 of 40 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 55.9% #48 of 76 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 55.8% #27 of 40 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $399 #13 of 19 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 62.4% #11 of 16 Lab model card
Tuesday Work Index 42.6 #32 of 44 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 42.3% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 66.3% #31 of 42 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Healthcare 1.20% #28 of 37 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 26.3% #20 of 26 Lab model card
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 71.3% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 53.7% #38 of 49 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 58.7% #56 of 71 Official leaderboard
FoodTruck Bench $1,245 #47 of 59 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.1 44.6% #41 of 49 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 50.9% #31 of 37 Official leaderboard
Legora BAR 94.0 #15 of 17 Official leaderboard
OR-License 62.6% #10 of 11 Official leaderboard
Hebbia Financial Services Benchmark 43.7% #10 of 10 Official leaderboard
FrontierCAD Assemblies 0.08 #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
SimuVerity 4.98 #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MVBench 77.8% #2 of 23 Lab model card
MMVU 80.5% #3 of 26 Lab model card
CharXiv 89.4% #10 of 75 Lab model card
ParseBench 70.5% #8 of 44 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,272 #29 of 136 Official leaderboard
MineBench 1,763 #22 of 75 Official leaderboard
BVB 67.9 #19 of 45 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,742 #27 of 56 Official leaderboard
CineRecon 47.6 #6 of 12 Official leaderboard
InteractiveBench 30% #6 of 12 Official leaderboard
BabyVision 53.4% #16 of 26 Lab model card
ExtractBench 80.8% #18 of 27 Official leaderboard
4DCodeBench 0.47 #11 of 16 Official leaderboard
Chartography 16.3% #30 of 43 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 26.8% #24 of 34 Official leaderboard
Code2Video-Compass 10.5 #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
ScienceVision 0.28 #9 of 12 Official leaderboard
DataCenterBench Tier 1 15% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Benchmark 1,467 #15 of 19 Official leaderboard
CharXiv Extended 76.2% #31 of 38 Official leaderboard
Frontier3DBench 47.6 #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
MMMU-Pro Extended 22.6% #35 of 38 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Arena 1,377 #13 of 13 Official leaderboard
Embodied First Exam 2.41% #9 of 9 Official leaderboard
VibeVideoBench 2.79 #9 of 9 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
nocot-bench (NCRI) 76.4 #71 of 185 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 72.7% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
CyberBench (Vals) 71.5% #12 of 26 Official leaderboard
SecIT Bench 75.5% #12 of 26 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 67.9% #24 of 44 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 26.7% #42 of 73 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 12.9 #22 of 29 Official leaderboard
SRE-Bench 0.76% #28 of 35 Official leaderboard
Biopharma Bench 42.5% #12 of 13 Official leaderboard
CyberOffense 20% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) 89.3% #5 of 29 Official leaderboard
Xbench 52.9 #3 of 17 Official leaderboard
SuperCLUE 47.2 #7 of 16 Official leaderboard
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1 57.0 #4 of 8 Lab model card
LiveBench 60.7% #22 of 31 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 35.0 #13 of 17 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 158.8, 5.0 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 14 capability results Z.ai reported for this model, on the scale of the Epoch Capabilities Index. Labs choose which benchmarks to show and how to run them, so read it as the lab's claim, not an independent measurement. The 90% interval runs from 155.6 to 162.0. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 5 leaderboards

Where the benchmark's own leaderboard, or Epoch AI's run, also has this model. Gaps mostly come from different harnesses, effort levels and task subsets. Every pair.

Benchmark Lab says Board says Gap
Chartography 78% Chartography (w/ Tools) 16.3% Leaderboard, max +62 pts
DeepSWE 63.4% DeepSWE (v1.1) 63.4% Leaderboard, max, mini-swe-agent Same
Toolathlon-Verified 78.4% Toolathlon Verified 78.4% Leaderboard, max Same
Vision2Web 77.8% Vision2Web 77.8% Leaderboard, Claude Code Same
Z.ai Code Bench 29% Z.ai Code Bench v1.0, 29.0 29% Leaderboard, max, Claude Code 2.1.207 Same

Z.ai's models over time

Z.ai's models in color, against every other model on the Epoch Capabilities Index, by release date.

50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-5 50 100 150 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-4.7

Source: Epoch Capabilities Index, Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0)

Its launch post

The benchmarks the lab chose to headline, with the scores it gave.