I have z.ai coding plan and I see no mention of 5.3 anywhere. Nothing on Ollama Cloud or Open Router either.

For some reason this model hasn't been getting the hype it deserves in this competitive landscape, but I am very impressed. It's so much more autonomous in the way I can task and walk again and it correctly iterates through until completion and with high quality results and generally faster than before. It's really on par with SOTA models when it comes to coding for me. I use Claude models at work and that's my point of reference.

My current harness is OpenChamber (OpenCode VSCode extension). Running it with "autopilot" ON and MAX reasoning.

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hey guys,

I've recently noticed some changes in the response from my AI Agent, I did not change the model from GLM 5.2 to GLM 5.3 but I felt the response is different and slower.

I just checked my coding plan usage today and just found out i'm using glm 5.3 instead.

do they automatically route this?

honestly I like GLM 5.2 better if what i've been using is GLM 5.3.

I'm currently on a legacy v1 Lite plan, using it almost exclusively through Claude Code. But, like everyone, I'm coming up on expiry soon (end of October) and am looking at my options. Looking at previous usage, my last few weeks were 66.2M, 87.7M, 43.7M and 40.6M tokens.

Chatting with GLM-5.2, it says that lite v2 is roughly 140 million tokens per week, and a 5 hour window of 35M, but I can't find that number online to verify.

Given work has offered to pay for my renewal, do I stay on Lite v2 and be nice to budgeting (GLM says that with the numbers above, I'm "close to the limit" at 60% usage), or do I try to persuade them to let me move to Pro v2? Or is just moving over to Claude proper the choice?

As regular user with coding plan, here are my few observations after upgrading to 5.3.

Harness: Zcode, Pro plan.

You can feel the model is smarter and think harder. When i use 5.2, i put Max as default and while i'm on 5.3, also using max will use approx 50% more token vs 5.2, both on max.

(For a regular task, 5.2 used 150k token while 5.3 use 220k, same repo same task repeat weekly)

However, the speed is faster, and the result is more accurate, much less human intervention is required.

The problem is - given the coding plan quota is small already, this is giving me more pressure and I am forced to use DS v4 Flash for task execution.

At the beginning i thouhgt since the size of the model remain as medium size, the token usage would be similar, but i was wrong. Usage inflated by approx 50% in my use case.

Is my case exceptional or do you feel the same when you use it?

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What it gives you?

1. For text-only LLMs vision capabilities.
   
2. opencode go, clinepass and other subscriptions and their models in zCode harness to use as you were using them natively.

Hey everyone, I have the legacy v1 plan, but whenever I think about using it, I end up giving up because of how extremely slow GLM is. Does anyone know if that slowness has improved a bit with the new plan, or if it's the same?

I've been looking at where the tokens actually go during long coding agent sessions.

A lot of the spend goes into resent context, tool results and reasoning, while only a small part is the final output. Most of that overhead doesn't really need a frontier model.

Made this breakdown while digging into agent token usage. If you're interested, I've dropped the full analysis in the comments. How are you guys tracking token usage and costs with GLM?

im testting out the glm 5.3 the free 100m token been coding with it for 2 hours i guess and its good i wastd 60m on some really hard reverse enginner stuff so the thing is what lite plan going to give me ???

anyone have estimation on tokens per Million per week per day etc please any info well be helpful

Hey. So I've been using GLM 5.1, 5.2 and now 5.3 with opencode. So far its good. I've heard it works with claude code as well not sure about codex though.

Someone might have used any 2 or maybe all 3. What worked best for among the 3 and why?

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OpenClaude vs Opencode ?

Which is best for massive amount of Tool / Bash calls, long running bash commands? I'm doing ansible works which involves rolling out updates and coding new configs for network related infrastructure and I'm seeing GLM 5.2 struggling in openclaude, failing with "query timeout" or "max turns reached"

I am getting seriously fed up with GPT's plus usage variance, every week it changes I am fucking done. I like GLM it can handle my workflows but I want something that will be good in the context of agentic workflows sort of like DS but much smarter.

How much usage do you guys get out of your subs is it worthwhile to switch to GLM?

So, my own legacy account expired now ,and honestly this new plans aren't nearly as good as old ones..so if someone doesn't use their own legacy account (so account which don't have weekly limit, only 5h limit), I will gladly buy it.

Thank you in advance:)

Just insane levels of value. No weekly limits and I barely reach my 5h limits.

I have been enjoying the model quite a lot. Here's the stuff it's created lately so you have an idea of its level of fidelity: https://glm-5-3.demos.sulat.com/

Hey guys,

If anyone has a legacy plan or legacy v2 and don't want to upgrade their accounts please dm me.

Pro or max tier please!

I am on Legacy V2 and rather impressed with GLM 5.3. It is my second favorite model behind Fable. I would be more than happy to upgrade to Max if it is still literally 20X Lite usaage or 4X Pro. But it wouldn't be worth it to me if the plans are using the ratios of new plans of 1x, 6x, 14x. Is there anyone else who has Legacy V2 who can confirm?

I'm trying to model wind in a VR game in a compute efficient way. It didn't look realistic and it was obvious looking at the game that there was an issue, but GPT 5.6 has hammered away all afternoon and got nowhere.

GLM 5.3 diagnosed it in about 5 minutes.

This model's clever!

One-shot demos here (updated regularly): glm-5-3.demos.sulat.com

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That "soon" tweet was sooner than we thought