grok-4.5 vs glm-5.3
Side-by-side comparison of grok-4.5 and glm-5.3: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. glm-5.3 outperforms grok-4.5 on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks.
xAI Corp.
grok-4.5
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$6.00
Context
500K
Model ID
xai/grok-4.5
glm-5.3
Input / 1M
$1.40
Output / 1M
$4.40
Context
1M
Model ID
zai/glm-5.3
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
grok-4.545.5%
glm-5.348.6%
Coding Indexcoding
grok-4.572.4%
glm-5.374.8%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
grok-4.593.1%
glm-5.391.7%
SciCodecoding
grok-4.555.0%
glm-5.359.0%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
grok-4.542.7%
glm-5.342.3%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| grok-4.5 | glm-5.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $2.00 | $1.40 |
| Output price / 1M | $6.00 | $4.40 |
| Context window | 500K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | N/A | 128K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | xAI Corp. | Z.ai |
Questions people ask
Is grok-4.5 better than glm-5.3?
glm-5.3 outperforms grok-4.5 on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: grok-4.5 and glm-5.3 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, grok-4.5 or glm-5.3?
glm-5.3 is cheaper. grok-4.5 costs $2.00/$6.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while glm-5.3 costs $1.40/$4.40.
Can I use grok-4.5 and glm-5.3 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "xai/grok-4.5" and "zai/glm-5.3", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
grok-4.5 supports up to 500K tokens of context. glm-5.3 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between grok-4.5 and glm-5.3 with one line of code
Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models. Change the model parameter, not your code.