Z.ai · Open weights
GLM 5.3 Uncensored
An experimental uncensored version of the full GLM 5.3 reasoning model for chat, creative writing, coding, and tool use. It may show unusual behavior or inconsistent response quality.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Input
- Text
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · high · max
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $1.25
- Output
- $2.25
- Cache read
- $0.30
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 131.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 1.1K tokens
- Longer than 74% of 465 models
Side by side
GLM 5.3 Uncensored compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GLM 5.3 UncensoredZ.aiThis model | Kimi K3MoonshotRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | Moonshot |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Open weights |
| Added | Sep 26, 2026 | Jul 16, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Max output | 131.07K | — |
| Average output | 1.1K tokens | 1.1K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $1.25 | $1.20Best |
| Output | $2.25Best | $5.50 |
| Cache read | $0.30 | $0.20Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 37.0 tok/s | 131.9 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 7.6 s | 5.7 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 98.8% | 99.9%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | — | 43.6 |
| Coding Index | — | 76.2 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | No | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | low, high, max | low, high, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
Intelligence Index
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored—
- Kimi K343.6
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 76.2
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 58.3%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 24.8%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 5.3%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 1,499 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 1,534 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 22.0%
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 88.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 21.7%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 46.9%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 93.5%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 12.6%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 59.5%
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored: —
- Kimi K3: 88.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Usage Share | #8 · 4.8% | Not in top 20 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Usage leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #3 · 59.6% |
| Creative writing | Not in top 20 | #11 · 32.3% |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #8 · 28.6% |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #17 · 3.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1487.4 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1539.1 |
| Math | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1498.7 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1502.5 |
| Instruction Following | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1489.1 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1516.1 |
| Chinese | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1541.5 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1494.4 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1501.3 |
| Expert | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1532.0 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1506.9 |
| German | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1507.5 |
| Hard Prompts English | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1517.3 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1487.1 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1460.7 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1509.2 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1523.8 |
| Industry Mathematical | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1507.6 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1513.3 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1522.9 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1475.5 |
| Japanese | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1510.6 |
| Korean | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1472.4 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1501.8 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1476.3 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1495.6 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1482.0 |
| WebDev Overall | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1654.9 |
| WebDev · Webdev | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1654.9 |
| WebDev · Webdev-html | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1642.2 |
| WebDev · Webdev-react | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1669.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | Not in top 20 | #15 · 44.2% |
| FrontierCode Extended | Not in top 20 | #15 · 58.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #18 · 157.9 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 94.5% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1318 |
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #5 · 2084 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #18 · 79.6 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- GLM 5.3 Uncensored
- Kimi K3
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Uncensored | Kimi K3 |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1360 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1335 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1339 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1351 |
| SVG | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1301 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1384 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1218 |
| Web Apps | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1295 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1315 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1255 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1267 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 37.0 tok/s
- Faster than 27% of 251 models
- Time to first token
- 7.6 s
- Quicker than 19% of 251 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 94.7%
- About $0.35 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 98.8%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "z-ai/glm-5.3-uncensored",
"reasoning_effort": "low",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/glm-5.3-uncensored",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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