Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3 ranks first on 4 of the 269 benchmarks with five or more models scored.

Z.ai Released August 14th, 2026 Family GLM-5 The lab's model card Compare with others
269
Benchmarks with a score
4
Ranked first, out of five or more models
19
In the top three
Z.ai Aug 2026

GLM-5.3

Open weights Flagship

157.1 #32 of 256
Epoch Capabilities Index
Self-Reported Index 161.5 #23 of 404
  • DeepSWE 69% #7 /28
  • NL2Repo-Bench 58% #8 /30
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 41.8% #12 /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
Creative Writing v3 82.2 #2 of 120 Official leaderboard
AA-LCR Extended 76.8% #2 of 49 Official leaderboard
Corp Speak Arena 1,731 #1 of 22 Official leaderboard
LMArena (Elo) 1,483 #23 of 335 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 62.5% #11 of 154 Lab model card
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 81.8 #10 of 119 Official leaderboard
Lech Mazur Creative Writing 2.95 #5 of 50 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 72% #20 of 129 Official leaderboard
Antidote 1,067 #8 of 36 Official leaderboard
ELI5 Arena 1,596 #4 of 18 Official leaderboard
StudyArena Text 1,257 #21 of 85 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 50.9% #28 of 107 Official leaderboard
Hemingway-bench 1,053 #11 of 42 Official leaderboard
OpenAI MRCR v2 57.8% #13 of 47 Official leaderboard
Joke Arena 1,540 #7 of 25 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 72.6 #12 of 40 Official leaderboard
DesignArena ASCII Art 1,210 #26 of 77 Official leaderboard
AgentIF (2026-10 setting) 64.2% #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
Last Translation Benchmark 8.56 #18 of 36 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 74.2% #55 of 103 Official leaderboard
HANDBOOK.md 29.9% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 41% #54 of 94 Epoch AI run
Opening Lines Arena 1,455 #9 of 15 Official leaderboard
ComplexConstraints 54.4% #10 of 15 Official leaderboard
FACTS Parametric V2 40.3% #21 of 27 Official leaderboard
HLE-Diamond 25.1% #18 of 20 Official leaderboard
Continual Learning Exam 24% #11 of 11 Official leaderboard
Kimi Hallu Bench 14.8% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 90.9% #40 of 229 Epoch AI run
ASI-Bench 41.6 #3 of 11 Official leaderboard
SimpleBench 66.2% #29 of 106 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 91.1% #68 of 212 Epoch AI run
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 68.8% #30 of 86 Official leaderboard
DTBench 87.7% #63 of 180 Official leaderboard
Prophet Arena 85.8 #10 of 24 Official leaderboard
FrontierPhysics 4.20% #11 of 22 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 29.3% #36 of 68 Official leaderboard
NatureBench 10% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
ProofBench v1.1 49% #32 of 52 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 23% #21 of 31 Official leaderboard
PaperBenchX 7.53% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench-Science 8.10% #12 of 17 Official leaderboard
Apodex Discovery 2.45 #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
Into the Unknown 0% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
scBench (LatchBio SingleCellBench) 48.7% #22 of 26 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 33.6% #23 of 27 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 65.8% #26 of 29 Official leaderboard
Riemann-bench 20.8% #19 of 20 Official leaderboard
BTF-3 0.15 #8 of 8 Official leaderboard

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
FrogsGame post-training task 33% #2 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE v1 78.1% #2 of 17 Official leaderboard
WeirdML 75.4% #17 of 112 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,614 #17 of 105 arena.ai, via Epoch AI
DesignArena 3D Design 1,299 #26 of 136 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Website 1,280 #29 of 151 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,937 #25 of 126 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Code 1,285 #29 of 143 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Frontend Web App 1,270 #11 of 53 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Game Dev 1,290 #30 of 143 Official leaderboard
Code Arena 1,622 #27 of 128 Official leaderboard
DesignArena SVG 1,248 #22 of 103 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench Verified Extended 68% #10 of 44 Official leaderboard
DesignArena UI Component 1,284 #33 of 139 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 69% #7 of 28 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 58% #8 of 30 Lab model card
Tencent WorkBuddy Bench 77.4% #4 of 14 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Agentic Overall 1,226 #22 of 74 Official leaderboard
TasteVal 59.2× #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 44.2% #24 of 78 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 68.4% #14 of 45 Official leaderboard
Doc2Harness 42.1% #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 78.1% #38 of 120 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Data Visualization 1,253 #40 of 118 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 40.3% #7 of 18 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 55.1% #12 of 30 Official leaderboard
RSI Arena 1,024 #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
Z.ai Code Bench 34.5% #2 of 5 Official leaderboard
APEX-SWE 45.6% #27 of 65 Official leaderboard
FrontierMemory 68.9% #3 of 7 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 39.8% #3 of 7 Lab model card
SlopCodeBench 24% #10 of 22 Official leaderboard
DesignArena React Native 1,186 #26 of 56 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 22.9% #9 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 20% #13 of 26 Official leaderboard
MacroscopeBench 77.4% #8 of 16 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 30.2% #13 of 25 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.2 34.5% #11 of 21 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon 42.5% #6 of 11 Lab model card
Vals RSI Index 0.23 #15 of 27 Official leaderboard
Data Agent Benchmark 78.3% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 42.6% #12 of 21 cursor.com, via Epoch AI
Landing Page Arena 1,477 #8 of 14 Official leaderboard
DAXBench v2 77.3% #27 of 47 Official leaderboard
SWE Atlas v1.1 58.1% #17 of 28 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 95.6% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 84.3% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 4.0 42.6% #13 of 21 Official leaderboard
LibraryDesignBench 41.9 #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
SWE-Marathon v1.1 42.5% #13 of 20 Official leaderboard
SWE-Clar 54% #6 of 9 Official leaderboard
ReactBench 30.8% #19 of 28 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 20.1% #22 of 32 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Data Science 4.00% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
Real-SWE 1.1 26.4% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
ViBench 2.0 0% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
OWE-Bench 11.8% #11 of 14 Official leaderboard
Snorkel Agentic Coding 2.0 24.9% #13 of 16 Official leaderboard
SWE-bench CLI 3.50% #13 of 16 Official leaderboard
RSI Bench 32.3 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 3.00 #17 of 19 Official leaderboard
sudo L7 9.40% #18 of 18 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench almost solved 19% #8 of 8 Lab model card
Kimi Code Bench 3.0 Long-horizon 45.5% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
Legacy-Bench 23% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
TestPrism 11.3% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
StepCodeBench 40.2% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CivBench 1,634 #1 of 19 Official leaderboard
AppWorld Test-Normal 94% #1 of 12 Official leaderboard
AppWorld Test-Challenge 89.5% #2 of 12 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 88.2% #10 of 56 Lab model card
MCP Atlas 84.2% #8 of 37 Official leaderboard
DuetBench 1,032 #2 of 9 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 Extended 39.4% #11 of 44 Official leaderboard
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 54.2% #4 of 15 Official leaderboard
DuelLab GameBench 2 72.3 #16 of 57 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 41.8% #12 of 40 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.1 41.2% #13 of 43 Official leaderboard
LLM Chess 605 #38 of 123 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 48.2% #16 of 47 Lab model card
Mystery Game Puzzles 33% #30 of 84 Epoch AI run
Terminal-Bench 3.0 32.4% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
BabaIsBench 96% #13 of 32 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 71.8% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
WitnessBench 16.6% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
RuneBench 5.00 #33 of 76 Official leaderboard
TraceTrial-Bench 74.6% #4 of 9 Official leaderboard
o11y-bench 81.3% #10 of 22 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 37% #43 of 93 Epoch AI run
Agent Arena 0.99% #27 of 56 Official leaderboard
Web Context (Nimble) 69.8% #7 of 11 Official leaderboard
Cresta-Bench 43.1% #9 of 14 Official leaderboard
Toolathlon-Verified 73% #15 of 21 Lab model card
Collaborative Intelligence Benchmark 45.8% #13 of 18 Official leaderboard
RecreationBench 24.4% #8 of 10 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
JobBench 61.4% #1 of 16 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 43.3% #9 of 84 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 88.8% #11 of 97 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 49% #11 of 93 Official leaderboard
SnorkelFinance 2.0 21.2% #2 of 16 Official leaderboard
SnorkelUnderwrite 2.0 30.4% #2 of 16 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,769 #4 of 27 Lab model card
Vals Legal Index 74.6% #6 of 38 Official leaderboard
Public Benefits Bench 68.5% #10 of 50 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 84.8% #29 of 138 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 61.4% #10 of 40 Official leaderboard
SnorkelLegal 37.8% #4 of 16 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $8,164 #17 of 67 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 55.8% #22 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $7,841 #9 of 32 Official leaderboard
DesignArena Python-PPTX Slides 1,205 #11 of 36 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 14.6% #12 of 38 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 3.91 #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 65% #13 of 40 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 8.33% #27 of 80 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 56.6% #22 of 61 Collected by Epoch AI, source not named
EnterpriseBench: CoreCraft 51.8% #19 of 51 Official leaderboard
SnorkelManufacturing 11.9% #6 of 16 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2 57% #25 of 65 Official leaderboard
Investor's Last Exam 62.3 #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 59.9% #15 of 37 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.1 53.5% #20 of 49 Official leaderboard
Legora BAR 102.0 #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Finance 11% #17 of 39 Official leaderboard
GDP.xlsx 21.4% #9 of 20 Official leaderboard
$OneMillion-Bench 31% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 72.8% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
APEX-Accounting 59.5% #23 of 49 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $644 #9 of 19 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 72.4% #62 of 129 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Healthcare 4.40% #18 of 37 Official leaderboard
MedCode 42.9% #47 of 96 Official leaderboard
Tuesday Work Index 50.8 #22 of 44 Official leaderboard
FinStepBench DeepResearch 53.3% #3 of 6 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 1.1 66.2% #34 of 65 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 48.1% #8 of 15 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 69.1% #23 of 42 Official leaderboard
APEX-1 63% #39 of 71 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 88.3% #11 of 20 Official leaderboard
Immigration Bench 66.7% #14 of 25 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 28.5% #15 of 26 Lab model card
Excel Modeling Benchmark 56.3% #46 of 76 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 81.1% #31 of 50 Official leaderboard
SnorkelRevOps 11.8% #10 of 16 Official leaderboard
E-Bench (Tencent) 71.4% #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
Ivo-micro1 ContractBench 55% #5 of 8 Official leaderboard
DeepFinance 27.5% #16 of 23 Official leaderboard
Bedside Bench 86.9% #12 of 17 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Accounting 7.60% #12 of 17 Official leaderboard
RWE-bench 0% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
Digital Work Index 16.4 #12 of 16 Official leaderboard
E-Bench-Code (Tencent) 66.5% #6 of 8 Official leaderboard
Quant-Arena 38.9 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
WorkplaceAgents 12.8% #11 of 14 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Tax 0.40% #12 of 15 Official leaderboard
HW-Bench 17% #12 of 15 Official leaderboard
DAYJOB: Law 6.20% #13 of 16 Official leaderboard
ATLAS-Finance 3.00% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
ATLAS-Finance v1.1.0 3.00% #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
FinStepBench LiveSearch 73.3% #5 of 6 Official leaderboard
GDPx 2.69% #18 of 20 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam v1.1 26.2% #13 of 14 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 0% #31 of 32 Official leaderboard
FinStepBench CorporateValuation 56.1% #6 of 6 Official leaderboard
Build-A-Chip-Bench 0% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MineBench 1,740 #24 of 75 Official leaderboard
VoxelBench 1,785 #25 of 56 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Benchmark 1,496 #10 of 19 Official leaderboard
GlobeBench 14.8% #14 of 19 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 978 #16 of 21 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Arena 1,449 #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 36.6% #16 of 19 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CyberGym 97.2% #2 of 34 Official leaderboard
SecIT Bench 81.4% #2 of 26 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Screening Evasion 67.2% #5 of 17 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Fragment Design 94.6% #8 of 27 Official leaderboard
SRE-Bench 9.16% #14 of 35 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test 55.7% #35 of 86 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 72.1% #18 of 44 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 21.8 #12 of 29 Official leaderboard
nocot-bench (NCRI) 74.5 #77 of 185 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Permit 99.6% #30 of 69 Official leaderboard
Molecular Biology Capabilities Test 49.8% #40 of 90 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 72.5% #19 of 42 Official leaderboard
World-Class Bio 46.6% #37 of 74 Official leaderboard
OncologyBench 17.3% #15 of 30 Official leaderboard
ExploitGym 18.3% #9 of 18 Official leaderboard
Human Pathogen Capabilities Test v2 (HPCT v2) 53.2% #37 of 71 Official leaderboard
ABC Bench Liquid-Handling Robot 91.3% #18 of 34 Official leaderboard
ExploitBench 54.4% #12 of 21 Lab model card
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 46.8% #27 of 46 Official leaderboard
FORTRESS 28.2% #44 of 73 Official leaderboard
BioTIER Refuse 32.5% #44 of 69 Official leaderboard
Last Secure Code Benchmark 21.3% #4 of 6 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Refusal 10.9% #15 of 22 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Function 31.8% #19 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Oligo-Discovery 31.9% #22 of 30 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Urgent safety 51% #13 of 17 Official leaderboard
xdev-bench-hard 57.1% #4 of 5 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 27.3% #21 of 26 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Relationship boundaries 64% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
BioSecBench-Surveillance 36.6% #23 of 27 Official leaderboard
scBench-Long 10.2% #24 of 27 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Antibody-Discovery 26.3% #27 of 30 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 35% #27 of 30 Official leaderboard
EpiBench 12.9% #25 of 27 Official leaderboard
SpatialBench-Long 18.4% #25 of 27 Official leaderboard
VariantBench 26.3% #25 of 27 Official leaderboard
SAFE-Teen Health advice 70% #16 of 17 Official leaderboard
CWE-bench 2 42% #14 of 14 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMCA 55.5% #17 of 147 Official leaderboard
Conceptual Reasoning Index 63.4 #28 of 151 Official leaderboard
SuperCLUE 50.7 #5 of 16 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 70.9 #49 of 152 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 39.2 #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
Xbench 39.5 #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
Political Science LLM Benchmark 66.7% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 48.8 #29 of 67 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 35.6 #31 of 68 Official leaderboard
CompassRank 74.4 #11 of 14 Official leaderboard

Its lab's numbers put it at 161.5, 4.4 points above its ECI

The Self-Reported Index fits one score to the 8 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 158.7 to 164.3. How we compute it.

Its lab's numbers next to 4 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
CyberGym 84.5% CyberGym 97.2% Leaderboard, dynamic, Sangfor AI −13 pts
Terminal-Bench 3.0 28.3% Terminal Bench 3.0 32.4% Leaderboard, max, Claude Code −4.1 pts
DeepSWE 66.9% DeepSWE (v1.1) 69% Leaderboard, max, mini-swe-agent −2.1 pts
FrontierSWE v1 78.1% FrontierSWE 78.1% Leaderboard, mean, Claude Code 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.