Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash ranks first on 2 of the 100 benchmarks it has scores on.

Z.ai Released 20 Aug 2026
100
Benchmarks with a score
2
Ranked first, out of five or more models
5
In the top three
Z.ai Aug 2026

GLM-5.3-Flash

Open weights

153.2 #48 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • DeepSWE 63.4% #13 /28
  • NL2Repo-Bench 56.3% #8 /28
  • Terminal-Bench 4.0 35.8% #12 /23

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) 1,477 #29 of 333 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Last Exam 55.3% #23 of 147 Model card
AgentIF (2026-10 setting) 64.4% #8 of 24 Official leaderboard
FACTS Grounding v2 56.1% #14 of 15 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 90.2% #43 of 219 Epoch AI
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 93.9% #48 of 202 Epoch AI
CritPt 15.4% #44 of 160 Epoch AI
ARC-AGI-2 65.8% #28 of 95 Official leaderboard
Verifying the Verifiers (Project APE CRED benchmark) 90% #7 of 23 Official leaderboard
ARC-AGI 91% #29 of 92 Official leaderboard
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 55.8% #49 of 89 Epoch AI
NatureBench 11.1% #10 of 18 Official leaderboard
Surface Evolver Bench 52.5% #15 of 26 Epoch AI
ProofBench 21% #51 of 83 Epoch AI
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 17.1% #54 of 71 Epoch AI
ProofBench v1.1 21% #40 of 51 Official leaderboard
BTF-3 0.15 #10 of 10 Epoch AI

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
WebDev Arena 1,607 #19 of 105 Epoch AI
Code Arena 1,607 #27 of 124 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 56.3% #8 of 28 Model card
StructEval 76.2% #10 of 28 Official leaderboard
Image-to-WebDev Arena 1,578 #21 of 55 Official leaderboard
Vision2Web 77.8% #4 of 10 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 1.2 36.8% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
DeepSWE 63.4% #13 of 28 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 51.6% #15 of 29 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 52.5% #24 of 45 Official leaderboard
Vibe Code Bench 30.8% #74 of 115 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 20.5% #52 of 78 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 31.8% #31 of 46 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 16% #18 of 26 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 18.1% #17 of 21 Epoch AI
SWE-Marathon v1.1 38.8% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 36.8% #16 of 19 Epoch AI
FrontierCS 2 12.5% #14 of 16 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 14.2% #23 of 26 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 304 #112 of 121 Epoch AI
Brokk Power Ranking 1.60 #18 of 19 Official leaderboard

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
Toolathlon 78.4% #1 of 37 Model card
Toolathlon-Verified 78.4% #1 of 25 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 48.8% #11 of 41 Model card
LLM Chess 572 #38 of 124 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 84.3% #17 of 53 Model card
Terminal-Bench 4.0 35.8% #12 of 23 Official leaderboard
OSWorld 2.0 59.1% #10 of 19 Model card
GAIA 43.9% #33 of 57 Official leaderboard
Agent Arena -0.02 #34 of 53 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 21% #62 of 83 Epoch AI
CivBench 1,468 #14 of 18 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 68.9% #14 of 17 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 8.00% #71 of 80 Epoch AI

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MedScribe 88.9% #9 of 98 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,773 #3 of 26 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% #19 of 88 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 31.6% #24 of 79 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 83.9% #45 of 138 Official leaderboard
Vals Legal Index 71% #13 of 33 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 6.67% #32 of 80 Official leaderboard
BlenderWorld 59.7 #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 52.8% #26 of 56 Epoch AI
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 60.6% #20 of 35 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 10.4% #19 of 33 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 2.58 #11 of 19 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 55.8% #22 of 35 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 55.9% #48 of 76 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $399 #13 of 19 Official leaderboard
OfficeQA Pro 62.4% #10 of 14 Model card
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 66.3% #27 of 37 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 42.3% #11 of 15 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 26.3% #19 of 25 Model card
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 71.3% #10 of 13 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 50.9% #26 of 32 Official leaderboard
Legora BAR 94.0 #15 of 17 Official leaderboard
OR-License 62.6% #9 of 10 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
MVBench 77.8% #2 of 15 Model card
CharXiv 89.4% #9 of 67 Model card
MMVU 80.5% #3 of 20 Model card
ParseBench 70.8% #8 of 42 Official leaderboard
Vision Arena 1,271 #29 of 136 Official leaderboard
Chartography 78% #5 of 12 Model card
VoxelBench 1,726 #29 of 56 Official leaderboard
Humanity's Sixth Sense 26.8% #20 of 29 Official leaderboard
BabyVision 53.4% #14 of 20 Model card
DataCenterBench Tier 1 15% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Benchmark 1,467 #15 of 19 Official leaderboard
ScienceVision 0.28 #9 of 11 Official leaderboard
Embodied First Exam 2.63% #6 of 7 Official leaderboard
GDP.pdf 14% #34 of 39 Epoch AI
VibeVideoBench 2.79 #9 of 9 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
DistressBench 72.7% #18 of 42 Official leaderboard
CyberBench (Vals) 71.5% #12 of 26 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 67.9% #23 of 43 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 12.9 #21 of 28 Official leaderboard
SRE-Bench 0.76% #26 of 33 Official leaderboard

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
SAGE v1.1 (Vals) 89.3% #5 of 28 Official leaderboard
SuperCLUE 68.1 #7 of 18 Official leaderboard
LiveBench 62.1% #20 of 28 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 35.0 #13 of 17 Official leaderboard

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 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-5 50 75 100 125 150 175 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 GLM-5.3-Flash GLM-4.7

Its launch post

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