Benchmark Almanac

GLM-5.3

GLM-5.3 ranks first on 2 of the 144 benchmarks it has scores on.

Z.ai Released 14 Aug 2026 Family GLM-5 The lab's model card
144
Benchmarks with a score
2
Ranked first, out of five or more models
6
In the top three
Z.ai Aug 2026

GLM-5.3

Open weights Flagship

156.2 #33 of 271
Epoch Capabilities Index
  • DeepSWE 69% #7 /28
  • NL2Repo-Bench 58% #6 /28
  • Agents' Last Exam 26.2% #11 /12

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
Humanity's Last Exam 62.5% #9 of 147 Model card
LMArena (Elo) 1,481 #25 of 333 Official leaderboard
Longform Creative Writing (EQ-Bench) 81.8 #10 of 119 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench V2 72% #19 of 122 Official leaderboard
BullshitBench 50.9% #28 of 107 Official leaderboard
Judgemark v4 72.6 #12 of 40 Official leaderboard
AgentIF (2026-10 setting) 64.2% #9 of 24 Official leaderboard
Extended NYT Connections 74.2% #49 of 97 Official leaderboard
SimpleQA Verified 41% #49 of 84 Epoch AI
HLE-Diamond 25.1% #16 of 18 Official leaderboard
Continual Learning Exam 24% #10 of 10 Official leaderboard

Math and science

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
GPQA Diamond 90.9% #36 of 219 Epoch AI
CritPt 19.1% #33 of 160 Epoch AI
SimpleBench 66.2% #24 of 100 Official leaderboard
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 91.1% #59 of 202 Epoch AI
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 68.8% #30 of 89 Epoch AI
DTBench 79.5% #61 of 178 Official leaderboard
Prophet Arena 85.5 #7 of 18 Official leaderboard
ProofBench 49% #34 of 83 Epoch AI
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 29.3% #37 of 71 Epoch AI
ProofBench v1.1 49% #31 of 51 Official leaderboard
NatureBench 10% #11 of 18 Official leaderboard
MysteryMechanism 23% #19 of 29 Official leaderboard
PaperBenchX 7.53% #7 of 10 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench-Science 8.10% #12 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierPhysics 1.20% #14 of 19 Official leaderboard
LatchBio Capabilities v1.0 33.6% #23 of 27 Official leaderboard
xbench-ScienceQA 65.8% #26 of 29 Official leaderboard
BTF-3 0.15 #9 of 10 Epoch AI

Coding

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
WeirdML 75.4% #16 of 112 Official leaderboard
WebDev Arena 1,614 #17 of 105 Epoch AI
Code Arena 1,623 #24 of 124 Official leaderboard
NL2Repo-Bench 58% #6 of 28 Model card
DeepSWE 69% #7 of 28 Official leaderboard
ALE-Bench 1,317 #31 of 121 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 78.1% #33 of 115 Official leaderboard
TasteVal 59.2× #6 of 20 Official leaderboard
Tencent WorkBuddy Bench 77.4% #3 of 10 Official leaderboard
Code Migration 44.2% #24 of 78 Official leaderboard
IOI v2 (Vals) 68.4% #14 of 45 Official leaderboard
Code Migration v1.1 55.1% #11 of 29 Official leaderboard
RSI-Exam 40.3% #7 of 18 Official leaderboard
PostTrainBench 39.8% #3 of 7 Model card
PostTrainBench 1.2 34.5% #8 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierSWE 30.2% #10 of 21 Epoch AI
Vibe Code Bench 1-100 20% #13 of 26 Official leaderboard
FrontierCS 2 25% #8 of 16 Official leaderboard
Vals RSI Index 0.23 #13 of 25 Official leaderboard
CursorBench 42.6% #10 of 19 Epoch AI
SWE-Marathon 42.5% #6 of 11 Model card
SWE-Bench Pro V2 95.6% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
SWE-Bench Pro V2 Hard 84.3% #9 of 16 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 40.1% #26 of 46 Epoch AI
SWE-Marathon v1.1 42.5% #11 of 17 Official leaderboard
FrontierCode 2.0 17.8% #19 of 26 Official leaderboard
ViBench 2.0 0% #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
RSI Bench 32.3 #7 of 8 Official leaderboard
Brokk Power Ranking 2.80 #17 of 19 Official leaderboard
ProgramBench 19% #19 of 20 Model card

Agents and tools

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CivBench 1,634 #1 of 18 Official leaderboard
MCP Atlas 84.2% #5 of 34 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 2.1 88.2% #8 of 53 Model card
Toolathlon 73% #7 of 37 Model card
Long-Horizon-Terminal-Bench 2.0 54.2% #4 of 15 Official leaderboard
AutomationBench 48.2% #12 of 41 Model card
LLM Chess 605 #37 of 124 Official leaderboard
Mystery Game Puzzles 33% #27 of 80 Epoch AI
Terminal-Bench 3.0 32.4% #4 of 11 Official leaderboard
Terminal-Bench 4.0 41.8% #9 of 23 Official leaderboard
Hermes Bench 71.8% #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
WitnessBench 16.6% #5 of 12 Official leaderboard
Chess Puzzles 37% #39 of 83 Epoch AI
Agent Arena 0.01 #28 of 53 Official leaderboard
RecreationBench 24.4% #8 of 10 Official leaderboard

Professional work

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
JobBench 61.4% #1 of 16 Official leaderboard
MedScribe 88.8% #11 of 98 Official leaderboard
Legal Research Bench 49% #10 of 88 Official leaderboard
Tax Agent Bench 39.7% #11 of 79 Official leaderboard
Vals Legal Index 74.6% #5 of 33 Official leaderboard
GDPval-AA v2 1,769 #4 of 26 Model card
Public Benefits Bench 68.5% #10 of 50 Official leaderboard
LegalBench 84.8% #29 of 138 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench 2 $8,164 #16 of 66 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Index 60.5% #9 of 35 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2 55.8% #22 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vending-Bench Arena $7,841 #9 of 32 Official leaderboard
Vals Finance Agent v2.1 65% #10 of 35 Official leaderboard
Harvey LAB v1.1 (HLAB-Vals-1.1) 14.6% #10 of 33 Official leaderboard
E-Commerce Bench 3.91 #6 of 19 Official leaderboard
APEX-Agents 56.6% #18 of 56 Epoch AI
Harvey LAB (Legal Agent Benchmark) 8.33% #27 of 80 Official leaderboard
Vals Index v2.2 59.7% #12 of 32 Official leaderboard
Legora BAR 102.0 #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
$OneMillion-Bench 31% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
Holdings-IndividualTaxBench 72.8% #6 of 13 Official leaderboard
Clipping Bench $644 #9 of 19 Official leaderboard
TaxEval v2 72.4% #62 of 129 Official leaderboard
MedCode 42.9% #47 of 96 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 69.1% #19 of 37 Official leaderboard
Thrive Holdings helpdesk ticket resolution benchmark 48.1% #8 of 15 Official leaderboard
Immigration Bench 66.7% #13 of 24 Official leaderboard
RCM-Bench-1 88.3% #11 of 20 Official leaderboard
Ivo-micro1 ContractBench 55% #4 of 7 Official leaderboard
Excel Modeling Benchmark 56.3% #46 of 76 Official leaderboard
PolicyBench 81.1% #31 of 50 Official leaderboard
RWE-bench 0% #8 of 11 Official leaderboard
Quant-Arena 38.9 #7 of 9 Official leaderboard
Agents' Last Exam 26.2% #11 of 12 Official leaderboard
TaxCalcBench v2 0% #26 of 26 Official leaderboard
Build-A-Chip-Bench 0% #5 of 5 Official leaderboard

Vision, audio and robotics

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
VoxelBench 1,782 #25 of 56 Official leaderboard
Code2Video Benchmark 1,496 #10 of 19 Official leaderboard
ArtifactArena 978 #16 of 21 Official leaderboard

Safety and security

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
CyberGym 97.2% #2 of 33 Official leaderboard
DeepsecBench 21.8 #11 of 28 Official leaderboard
SRE-Bench 9.16% #13 of 33 Official leaderboard
CyberBench v1.1 (Vals) 72.1% #17 of 43 Official leaderboard
DistressBench 72.5% #19 of 42 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
FORTRESS 28.2% #38 of 66 Official leaderboard
ExploitBench 54.4% #11 of 19 Model card
PCT (Polarized Contrastive Pairs) 46.8% #27 of 46 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% #20 of 28 Official leaderboard
MetagenomicsBench 27.3% #21 of 26 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% #25 of 28 Official leaderboard
TxBench-Preclinical-Pharmacology 35% #25 of 28 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

Other

BenchmarkScoreRankSource
LMCA 55.5% #14 of 139 Epoch AI
Conceptual Reasoning Index 63.4 #26 of 149 Official leaderboard
SuperCLUE 71.3 #4 of 18 Official leaderboard
ACCoRD 70.9 #46 of 150 Official leaderboard
Hermes Index 39.2 #7 of 17 Official leaderboard
CAIS Risk Index 48.8 #27 of 65 Official leaderboard
CAIS Text Capabilities Index 35.6 #29 of 66 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.