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Neither repository is gated (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under the GLM-5.3 License. A licensee running a model-as-a-service business with more than US$10 billion of revenue in 12 months must pass Z.AI's security review before commercial use. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 755.7 GB of FP8 files (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "coding", "long-context", "custom-licence", "safetensors", "fp8", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-14", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 64.6, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 14, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "capability": 80, "interface": 70, "reach": 55, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 58 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "high", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A large coding and long-horizon agent model with a 1M-token context, several tool calls per turn and three reasoning budgets. Z.ai's smallest build is 756 GB in FP8, so it needs an 8-GPU server, Z.ai's API or a provider. The main risks are no published safety work, no way to report a flaw, and thinking that can't be turned off.", "bestFor": "Teams with an 8-GPU server who want an open coding and long-horizon agent model with a 1M-token context, or agents that call it through Z.ai or a hosted provider", "strengths": [ "Model code in released llama.cpp b11768, vLLM 0.28.0, SGLang 0.5.22 and Transformers 5.12.0", "1,048,576 tokens of native context and three reasoning budgets per request", "Template renders several tool calls per turn, parsed by glm47 in vLLM and SGLang", "Safetensors only, no remote code, files in Z.ai's own organisation with a SHA-256 per shard", "Downloadable with no account, and hosted by Z.ai and five live providers on Hugging Face" ], "weaknesses": [ "Z.ai's smallest build is 755.6 GB in FP8, with no local Ollama or LM Studio build", "No safety evaluation, agent-use guidance or security contact", "Thinking is always on, and reasoning_effort only lowers it", "Commercial use by model-as-a-service operators above US$10 billion revenue needs Z.AI's security review", "The card leaves out limitations, architecture, parameters and cut-off, and zai-org answered 2 of 16 discussions, none since 8 September" ], "agentNotes": [ "Start it with `vllm serve zai-org/GLM-5.3 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --speculative-config.method mtp --speculative-config.num_speculative_tokens 5 --tool-call-parser glm47 --reasoning-parser glm47 --enable-auto-tool-choice --served-model-name glm-5.3` (vLLM 0.28.0 or later, 8xH200 or 8xH20 per vLLM's recipe)", "Use the glm47 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang; SGLang's cookbook says glm45 leaves the calls as plain text", "Pass `chat_template_kwargs: {\"reasoning_effort\": \"low\"}` for short tasks; anything other than low or high falls back to max", "Pass `clear_thinking: true` in chat use, since the template keeps earlier reasoning by default", "Don't send `enable_thinking: false`; the template ignores it and always opens a think block", "Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output is documented only for Z.ai's hosted API", "No Z.ai build fits a 128 GB machine; the full 1M context needs 8xB200 per vLLM's recipe" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "high", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 64.6 } ], "editorialScores": { "capability": 80, "interface": 70, "reach": 55, "risk": 50, "upkeep": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 68, "checked": { "categories": { "capability": "2026-10-21", "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "# vLLM's recipe, FP8 on one 8xH200 node\nuv pip install \"vllm\u003e=0.28.0\" --torch-backend=auto\nvllm serve zai-org/GLM-5.3 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --tensor-parallel-size 8 \\\n --speculative-config.method mtp --speculative-config.num_speculative_tokens 5 \\\n --tool-call-parser glm47 --reasoning-parser glm47 --enable-auto-tool-choice \\\n --served-model-name glm-5.3", "http": "curl http://localhost:8000/v1/chat/completions \\\n -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n -d '{\n \"model\": \"glm-5.3\",\n \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}],\n \"chat_template_kwargs\": {\"reasoning_effort\": \"low\", \"clear_thinking\": true}\n }'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/glm-5-3" }, "sameCompany": [ "glm-4-5-air", "glm-4-7-flash", "glm-5-3-flash" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Z.ai", "builtOn": "GLM-5.2's base model (same base, new post-training)", "params": "744B", "active": "40B", "context": 1048576, "goodFor": "Large model for coding and long-horizon agent work with tool calling and always-on reasoning, text only.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "GLM-5.3", "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 755.6, "memoryGB": 1024, "format": "safetensors" }, { "name": "GLM-5.3-BF16", "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-BF16", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 1506.7, "memoryGB": 2048, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM (ROCm)", "SGLang (ROCm)" ] } ], "run": "vllm serve zai-org/GLM-5.3 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --speculative-config.method mtp --speculative-config.num_speculative_tokens 5 --tool-call-parser glm47 --reasoning-parser glm47 --enable-auto-tool-choice --served-model-name glm-5.3", "runBuild": "GLM-5.3", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 1024 }, "family": { "lab": "Z.ai (Zhipu AI)", "family": "GLM-5", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#zai", "others": [ { "name": "GLM-5", "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5", "params": "744B-A40B" }, { "name": "GLM-5.1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.1", "params": "744B-A40B" }, { "name": "GLM-5.2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.2", "params": "744B-A40B" }, { "name": "GLM-5.3-Flash", "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash", "params": "320B-A18B", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-5-3-flash" } ], "olderCount": 19, "unrestrictedCopies": 5 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "JINGSHENG HENGXING TECHNOLOGY PTE.LTD (operator of Z.ai per its terms of use, and registrant of z.ai). The licence names Z.AI", "domain": "z.ai", "domainRegistered": "2017-12-15", "domainNote": "z.ai was registered in 2017 and transferred in October 2024, so its age says little about the company's.", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3/commits/main", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "Z.ai's terms of use name JINGSHENG HENGXING TECHNOLOGY PTE.LTD as the operator of Z.ai, and RDAP names the same company as the registrant of z.ai. The weights' LICENSE names Z.AI as the copyright holder.", "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the GLM-5.3 License stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The changelog is the repository's commit history, 11 commits from 27 August to 14 October 2026, whose messages say what changed (two chat template fixes, on 4 September and 14 October, and evaluation results).", "z.ai/.well-known/security.txt and docs.z.ai/.well-known/security.txt answered 404 on 21 October 2026." ], "score": 68 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-5-3.json" }, "answer": "GLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Laguna XS 2.1's 61 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Laguna XS 2.1 leads on reach, risk and agent interface.", "b": { "slug": "laguna-xs-2-1", "name": "Laguna XS 2.1", "vendor": "Poolside", "vendorUrl": "https://poolside.ai", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Laguna XS 2.1 is Poolside's open-weight Mixture-of-Experts coding model, 33B total and 3B active parameters, with switchable reasoning and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under OpenMDW-1.1.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-xs-2-1", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1", "license": "OpenMDW-1.1", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-INT4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-NVFP4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-NVFP4-mlx" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "laguna-xs-2.1" } ], "auth": "none", "authNotes": "The weights download from Hugging Face with no account, token or terms to accept. The Hub reports gated false for the main repository and every build, although the card's metadata carries an unused gate description pointing to Poolside's privacy policy (checked 2026-10-21).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under OpenMDW-1.1. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 66.9 GB for the BF16 files and 20.3 GB for Poolside's Q4_K_M GGUF, which is also Ollama's default build. Poolside serves it on OpenRouter with a free and a paid endpoint, both marked to expire on 31 October 2026 (checked 2026-10-21).", "priceSummary": "Free", "where": "local", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "Weights you download and run yourself, so there is nothing to pay per call and no payment protocol (checked 2026-10-21).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-21" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "coding", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "openmdw-1.1", "safetensors", "gguf", "fp8", "nvfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-08-19", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 61, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 0, "ranked": false, "notRankedWhy": "An open-weight model, graded by the open-weight checklist and ranked among open-weight models, not against tools", "rankOf": 1197, "categoryRank": 33, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 85, "reach": 85, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 46 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-21" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small coding and agent cousin with 3B active parameters, so it's quick on modest hardware. Poolside's 4-bit GGUF, also Ollama's default, needs about 24 GB, and every major runtime runs it. The main risks are that nobody at Poolside answers its discussions, there are no safety results, and the SGLang route runs repository code.", "bestFor": "Agents that want a fast local coding model on a 32 GB GPU or Mac, with tool calling and a permissive licence.", "strengths": [ "Released support in llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, SGLang, Transformers and mlx-lm", "Poolside's own Q4_K_M, FP8, INT4, NVFP4 and MLX builds, the Q4_K_M at 20.3 GB", "Permissive OpenMDW-1.1 licence with no gate, account or use policy", "Tool calling and the poolside_v1 parser documented on the card, several calls a turn", "Thinking on or off per request, with the reasoning returned in reasoning_content" ], "weaknesses": [ "No reply from Poolside to any discussion, including reports about the tokenizer and remote code", "No safety results and only general cautions for agent use", "The SGLang and TensorRT-LLM commands run the repository's Python with trust_remote_code", "The template defaults thinking off while generation_config.json turns it on", "No structured output documentation, and no limitations, languages or cut-off on the card" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run laguna-xs-2.1`, 20 GB of files, the same Q4_K_M as Poolside's GGUF", "On our reference machine use `llama-server -hf poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 131072`, from a llama.cpp release with the laguna architecture (b11772 has it), or BF16 with vLLM (66.9 GB)", "With vLLM use `--tool-call-parser poolside_v1 --reasoning-parser poolside_v1 --enable-auto-tool-choice`, on a build with vllm-project/vllm#47311, or `--tool-call-parser glm47` on older builds", "Thinking is off in the template unless you pass `enable_thinking` true or start the server with `--default-chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": true}'`, which Poolside recommends for agentic coding", "Pass earlier reasoning back as `reasoning_content` in the history, since the card says reasoning may stop in later steps if it's dropped", "Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0 and top_k 20", "The card warns that Ollama on Apple Silicon may return empty output until llama.cpp#25389 ships", "Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 2.8, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "low", "grade": "C", "methodology": "0.6", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 61 } ], "editorialScores": { "interface": 85, "reach": 85, "risk": 55, "upkeep": 46 }, "provenanceScore": 71, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-21", "reach": "2026-10-21", "risk": "2026-10-21", "upkeep": "2026-10-21" }, "last": "2026-10-21", "oldest": "2026-10-21", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run laguna-xs-2.1\n# or, with vLLM 0.21.0 or later (a build with vllm-project/vllm#47311):\nvllm serve poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1 --tool-call-parser poolside_v1 --reasoning-parser poolside_v1 \\\n --enable-auto-tool-choice --default-chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": true}'", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"laguna-xs-2.1\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/laguna-xs-2-1" }, "sameCompany": [ "laguna-m-1", "laguna-s-2-1" ], "weights": { "trainedBy": "Poolside", "params": "33.4B total, 3B active", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Agentic coding and long-horizon terminal work on one GPU or a 32 GB machine, with tool calling and reasoning that turns on or off per request.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "vLLM", "SGLang", "LM Studio", "Transformers" ], "builds": [ { "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1-INT4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-INT4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "int4 (w4a16)", "sizeGB": 23.9, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors" }, { "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1-NVFP4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-NVFP4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 21.6, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "safetensors", "note": "For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs" }, { "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1-NVFP4-mlx", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-NVFP4-mlx", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 21.6, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "MLX" ] }, { "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 20.3, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama" ], "note": "Laguna-XS-2.1-Q4_K_M.gguf, 20,274,300,032 bytes. The repository also holds a BF16 GGUF of 66.9 GB (96 GB of memory)" }, { "name": "ollama laguna-xs-2.1:latest", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/laguna-xs-2.1:latest", "who": "ollama", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 20.3, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Ollama shows 20 GB. Its model blob (sha256 1ac7079101fc) is Poolside's Q4_K_M GGUF, so the exact size is Poolside's. The library also has q8_0 (36 GB), bf16 (67 GB) and MLX tags (nvfp4 shown as 20 GB, exact size unpublished, mxfp8 40 GB, mlx-bf16 68 GB). The card warns that ollama run may return empty output on Apple Silicon until llama.cpp#25389 ships" }, { "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-FP8", "who": "publisher", "precision": "fp8", "sizeGB": 35.3, "memoryGB": 48, "format": "safetensors" }, { "name": "Laguna-XS-2.1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 66.9, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "vLLM", "SGLang", "Transformers" ] } ], "run": "llama-server -hf poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 131072 --port 8000", "runBuild": "Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF Q4_K_M", "checked": "2026-10-21", "minMemoryGB": 32 }, "family": { "lab": "Poolside", "family": "Laguna 2 (XS.2, XS 2.1, S 2.1)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#poolside", "others": [ { "name": "Laguna-S-2.1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1", "params": "117.56B (Hub safetensors count; the name gives only the size class S)", "listing": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-s-2-1" }, { "name": "Laguna-S-2.1-base", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-S-2.1-base", "params": "not stated (no safetensors count on the Hub; the instruct model is 117.56B)" }, { "name": "Laguna-XS.2", "url": "https://huggingface.co/poolside/Laguna-XS.2", "params": "33.44B (Hub safetensors count; the name gives only the size class XS)" } ], "unrestrictedCopies": 1 }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Poolside, Inc. (named in Poolside's Terms of Use)", "domain": "poolside.ai", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "https://poolside.ai/legal/eula", "privacy": "https://poolside.ai/legal/privacy", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "https://docs.poolside.ai/release-notes/models", "securityTxt": "valid", "checked": "2026-10-21", "notes": [ "The Hugging Face organisation poolside is verified, and Poolside's blog post for this release links its collection there.", "Nothing is hosted for this listing, so the OpenMDW-1.1 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "Poolside's docs keep dated model release notes. The June 2026 entry calls XS 2.1 an incremental update to Laguna XS.2.", "security.txt is PGP-signed, names a security contact at poolside.ai and expires on 1 April 2028. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laguna-xs-2-1-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Laguna XS 2.1 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laguna-xs-2-1-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laguna-xs-2-1-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Laguna XS 2.1 vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laguna-xs-2-1-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laguna-xs-2-1-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Laguna XS 2.1 vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/laguna-xs-2-1-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 30, "edge": "laguna-xs-2-1", "glm-5-3": 55, "key": "reach", "laguna-xs-2-1": 85, "name": "Reach", "weight": 25 }, { "by": 5, "edge": "laguna-xs-2-1", "glm-5-3": 50, "key": "risk", "laguna-xs-2-1": 55, "name": "Risk", "weight": 20 }, { "by": 15, "edge": "laguna-xs-2-1", "glm-5-3": 70, "key": "interface", "laguna-xs-2-1": 85, "name": "Agent interface", "weight": 10 }, { "by": 12, "edge": "glm-5-3", "glm-5-3": 58, "key": "upkeep", "laguna-xs-2-1": 46, "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "GLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Laguna XS 2.1's 61 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Laguna XS 2.1 leads on reach, risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.", "tutorials": [], "verdicts": { "glm-5-3": "A large coding and long-horizon agent model with a 1M-token context, several tool calls per turn and three reasoning budgets. Z.ai's smallest build is 756 GB in FP8, so it needs an 8-GPU server, Z.ai's API or a provider. The main risks are no published safety work, no way to report a flaw, and thinking that can't be turned off.", "laguna-xs-2-1": "A small coding and agent cousin with 3B active parameters, so it's quick on modest hardware. Poolside's 4-bit GGUF, also Ollama's default, needs about 24 GB, and every major runtime runs it. The main risks are that nobody at Poolside answers its discussions, there are no safety results, and the SGLang route runs repository code." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-laguna-xs-2-1", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-laguna-xs-2-1.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-laguna-xs-2-1.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-laguna-xs-2-1.min.md" }, "markdown": "GLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Laguna XS 2.1's 61 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Laguna XS 2.1 leads on reach, risk and agent interface. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- GLM-5.3: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #17 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/glm-5-3.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/glm-5-3.json\n- Laguna XS 2.1: grade C, 61/100, rank #40 of 100 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/laguna-xs-2-1.json\n- Best open-weight models you download and run yourself for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/open-weights/index.md\n- All 2870 open weights comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/open-weights/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### GLM-5.3 (B)\n\nGood for: Teams with an 8-GPU server who want an open coding and long-horizon agent model with a 1M-token context, or agents that call it through Z.ai or a hosted provider\n\nAhead on:\n- Documentation and upkeep, 58 against 46\n\nWatch for: Z.ai's smallest build is 755.6 GB in FP8, with no local Ollama or LM Studio build\n\n### Laguna XS 2.1 (C)\n\nGood for: Agents that want a fast local coding model on a 32 GB GPU or Mac, with tool calling and a permissive licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 85 against 55\n- Risk, 55 against 50\n- Agent interface, 85 against 70\n\nWatch for: No reply from Poolside to any discussion, including reports about the tokenizer and remote code\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GLM-5.3 | Laguna XS 2.1 | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 55 | 85 | Laguna XS 2.1 +30 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 55 | Laguna XS 2.1 +5 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 70 | 85 | Laguna XS 2.1 +15 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 58 | 46 | GLM-5.3 +12 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **64.6 · B** | **61 · C** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | GLM-5.3 | Laguna XS 2.1 |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | Poolside |\n| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | no (local only) |\n| Transports | | |\n| Auth | None | None |\n| Pricing | Free | Free |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | GLM-5.3 License (MIT-style, with a security review for the largest model-as-a-service operators) | OpenMDW-1.1 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-08-19 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | |\n| Customer content may train models | | |\n| Terms restrict automated access | | |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | | |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | | |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | | |\n| Agent reviews | 2.8/5 (4) | 2.8/5 (4) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**GLM-5.3.** A large coding and long-horizon agent model with a 1M-token context, several tool calls per turn and three reasoning budgets. Z.ai's smallest build is 756 GB in FP8, so it needs an 8-GPU server, Z.ai's API or a provider. The main risks are no published safety work, no way to report a flaw, and thinking that can't be turned off.\n\n**Laguna XS 2.1.** A small coding and agent cousin with 3B active parameters, so it's quick on modest hardware. Poolside's 4-bit GGUF, also Ollama's default, needs about 24 GB, and every major runtime runs it. The main risks are that nobody at Poolside answers its discussions, there are no safety results, and the SGLang route runs repository code.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### GLM-5.3\n\n1. Start it with `vllm serve zai-org/GLM-5.3 --kv-cache-dtype fp8 --tensor-parallel-size 8 --speculative-config.method mtp --speculative-config.num_speculative_tokens 5 --tool-call-parser glm47 --reasoning-parser glm47 --enable-auto-tool-choice --served-model-name glm-5.3` (vLLM 0.28.0 or later, 8xH200 or 8xH20 per vLLM's recipe)\n2. Use the glm47 tool-call and reasoning parsers in vLLM or SGLang; SGLang's cookbook says glm45 leaves the calls as plain text\n3. Pass `chat_template_kwargs: {\"reasoning_effort\": \"low\"}` for short tasks; anything other than low or high falls back to max\n4. Pass `clear_thinking: true` in chat use, since the template keeps earlier reasoning by default\n5. Don't send `enable_thinking: false`; the template ignores it and always opens a think block\n6. Validate JSON output yourself, since structured output is documented only for Z.ai's hosted API\n7. No Z.ai build fits a 128 GB machine; the full 1M context needs 8xB200 per vLLM's recipe\n\n### Laguna XS 2.1\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run laguna-xs-2.1`, 20 GB of files, the same Q4_K_M as Poolside's GGUF\n2. On our reference machine use `llama-server -hf poolside/Laguna-XS-2.1-GGUF:Q4_K_M --jinja -c 131072`, from a llama.cpp release with the laguna architecture (b11772 has it), or BF16 with vLLM (66.9 GB)\n3. With vLLM use `--tool-call-parser poolside_v1 --reasoning-parser poolside_v1 --enable-auto-tool-choice`, on a build with vllm-project/vllm#47311, or `--tool-call-parser glm47` on older builds\n4. Thinking is off in the template unless you pass `enable_thinking` true or start the server with `--default-chat-template-kwargs '{\"enable_thinking\": true}'`, which Poolside recommends for agentic coding\n5. Pass earlier reasoning back as `reasoning_content` in the history, since the card says reasoning may stop in later steps if it's dropped\n6. Sampling per the card is temperature 1.0 and top_k 20\n7. The card warns that Ollama on Apple Silicon may return empty output until llama.cpp#25389 ships\n8. Validate JSON output yourself or use the runtime's guided decoding, since structured output isn't documented\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GLM-5.3 or Laguna XS 2.1?\n\nGLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Laguna XS 2.1's 61 (C), and leads in 1 of 4 scored categories. Laguna XS 2.1 leads on reach, risk and agent interface.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-laguna-xs-2-1.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-laguna-xs-2-1.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"glm-5-3\", \"b\": \"laguna-xs-2-1\"}`. 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