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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": 1201, "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", "live": { "slug": "glm-5-3", "securityTxt": { "url": "https://z.ai/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:20.361208872Z" }, "pages": [ { "url": "https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3/commits/main", "kind": "changelog", "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T01:50:25.646512895Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-23T01:50:25.646512895Z", "fingerprint": "403561d9ce7c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-23T15:25:20.361208872Z" } }, "answer": "GLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Recursive Flint's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Recursive Flint leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.", "b": { "slug": "recursive-flint", "name": "Recursive Flint", "vendor": "Recursive", "vendorUrl": "https://www.recursive.com", "kind": "weights", "category": "open-weights", "summary": "Recursive Flint is Recursive's open-weight mixture-of-experts coding model for agents, 39.8B total and about 2.5B active parameters, with reasoning, tool calling and a 262,144-token context, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/recursive-flint.json", "repo": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint", "license": "Apache-2.0", "transports": [], "packages": [ { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint-int4" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf" }, { "registry": "huggingface", "name": "RecursiveSI/flint-nvfp4-gguf" }, { "registry": "ollama", "name": "flint" } ], "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 all three quantised builds (checked 2026-10-22).", "pricing": "free", "pricingNotes": "Free to download and use, commercial use included, under Apache 2.0. Running it yourself costs the hardware, 79.6 GB for the BF16 files and 22.6 GB for Recursive's smallest 4-bit build (MLX INT4). The card mentions hosted API terms separate from the weight licence, but no Recursive API or inference provider serving Flint was confirmed (checked 2026-10-22).", "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 2026-10-22).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": null, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": null, "asOf": "2026-10-22" }, "docsUrl": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint", "capabilities": [ "model.open-weights" ], "tags": [ "open-weights", "model", "moe", "coding", "reasoning", "tool-calling", "apache-2.0", "safetensors", "gguf", "mlx", "nvfp4", "self-hosted" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-21", "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": 1201, "categoryRank": 41, "methodology": "0.6", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "interface": 90, "reach": 75, "risk": 60, "upkeep": 67 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "low", "date": "2026-10-22" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "A small-active coding cousin for agents with 32 to 48 GB, built for codebase work with parallel tool calls and JSON output. It needs llama.cpp b11803 or Ollama 0.40.8 or later, and the BF16 checkpoint needs a 141 GB GPU. Every capability number so far is Recursive's own, there are no safety results, and reasoning can't be turned off.", "bestFor": "Agents doing repository work on a 32 to 48 GB Mac or NVIDIA box that want a fast sparse coder with documented tool calls and a plain licence.", "strengths": [ "Plain Apache 2.0 with no gate, account or use policy", "Recursive's own MLX INT4, Q4_1 GGUF and NVFP4 GGUF builds, the smallest 22.6 GB", "Tool format, parser, parallel calls and JSON Schema output documented by Recursive", "262,144 tokens of context with no position scaling", "Safetensors and GGUF only, with a checksum on every file in Recursive's organisation", "llama.cpp, Ollama and LM Studio support on release day" ], "weaknesses": [ "No independent benchmark results yet, every published score is Recursive's", "No reasoning switch or budget, so hard prompts can spend tens of thousands of tokens thinking", "The BF16 route needs one 141 GB GPU and Recursive's SGLang plugin, and vLLM and released Transformers don't run it", "No safety results and no trained instruction hierarchy", "No inference provider or confirmed Recursive API for agents without the hardware" ], "agentNotes": [ "Quickest start is `ollama run flint` (Ollama 0.40.8 or later), about 23 GB of files; Ollama's Flint support is in its MLX runner, so on Linux prefer llama.cpp", "With llama.cpp use release b11803 or later: `llama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 131072 -np 1 -fa on --jinja --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, and keep --jinja on", "Set max_tokens to at least 32768 for hard tasks, reasoning counts against it and can't be switched off, and finish_reason length can mean no answer or tool call came out", "Send reasoning_content back on assistant messages when replaying the conversation, as Recursive's cards ask", "Strip \u003ctool_call\u003e, \u003ctool_response\u003e, \u003carg_key\u003e and \u003carg_value\u003e from untrusted tool output, the template doesn't escape them and a copied \u003c/tool_call\u003e can add a call", "Message content must be a string, flatten content-part arrays first", "Recursive's SGLang servers listen on 0.0.0.0 with no key, publish the port on localhost only or pass --api-key" ], "metrics": { "kind": "local", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 4, "avgRating": 3.5, "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": 90, "reach": 75, "risk": 60, "upkeep": 67 }, "provenanceScore": 40, "checked": { "categories": { "interface": "2026-10-22", "reach": "2026-10-22", "risk": "2026-10-22", "upkeep": "2026-10-22" }, "last": "2026-10-22", "oldest": "2026-10-22", "stale": false, "staleAfterDays": 90 } }, "connect": { "install": "ollama run flint\n# or, with llama.cpp b11803 or later:\nllama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 262144 -np 1 -fa on --jinja \\\n --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "http": "curl http://localhost:11434/api/chat \\\n -d '{\"model\": \"flint\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Hello!\"}]}'" }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/model.open-weights", "tool": "https://letme.dev/recursive-flint" }, "weights": { "trainedBy": "Recursive", "params": "39.8B total, about 2.5B active", "context": 262144, "goodFor": "Agentic coding on a 32 to 48 GB machine, investigating codebases, fixing bugs and writing tests with multi-turn tool calls and reasoning.", "runtimes": [ "llama.cpp", "Ollama", "LM Studio" ], "builds": [ { "name": "flint-int4", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint-int4", "who": "publisher", "precision": "int4 (group-64 affine, INT8 embeddings)", "sizeGB": 22.6, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "mlx", "runsOn": [ "rec", "Ollama" ], "note": "For Apple Silicon. Recursive's rec engine asks for an M4 Pro or newer with 48 GB" }, { "name": "flint-int4-gguf Q4_1", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "q4_1", "sizeGB": 26, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "flint-int4-q4_1.gguf, 25,992,966,976 bytes, the INT4 export's trained codes stored as Q4_1. The card targets Metal and asks for a Mac with at least 48 GB at full context" }, { "name": "flint-nvfp4-gguf", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint-nvfp4-gguf", "who": "publisher", "precision": "nvfp4", "sizeGB": 22.9, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "llama.cpp" ], "note": "flint-nvfp4.gguf, 22,863,084,160 bytes, for NVIDIA GPUs with CUDA. The card recommends at least 48 GB at full context" }, { "name": "ollama flint:latest", "url": "https://ollama.com/library/flint:latest", "who": "ollama", "precision": "4-bit", "sizeGB": 23, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "ollama", "runsOn": [ "Ollama" ], "note": "Digest 905c74dfd56b, shown as 23 GB (Ollama rounds to whole GB). The library also has qat-int4 (23 GB), q4_1 (26 GB), gguf-nvfp4 (23 GB) and mlx-bf16 (80 GB) tags. Ollama 0.40.8 runs Flint in its MLX runner; its bundled llama.cpp (b11738) predates Flint, so the GGUF tags on Linux weren't confirmed in a release" }, { "name": "lmstudio-community flint-GGUF Q4_K_M", "url": "https://huggingface.co/lmstudio-community/flint-GGUF", "who": "lmstudio", "precision": "q4_k_m", "sizeGB": 24.2, "memoryGB": 32, "format": "gguf", "runsOn": [ "LM Studio", "llama.cpp" ], "note": "flint-Q4_K_M.gguf, 24,166,841,184 bytes, the build behind LM Studio's recursivesi/flint catalogue page. Also Q6_K (32.7 GB, 48 GB of memory) and Q8_0 (42.4 GB, 64 GB)" }, { "name": "flint", "url": "https://huggingface.co/RecursiveSI/flint", "who": "publisher", "precision": "bf16", "sizeGB": 79.6, "memoryGB": 96, "format": "safetensors", "runsOn": [ "SGLang 0.5.16 with Recursive's flint_sglang kit" ], "note": "Recursive's SGLang kit needs one GPU with at least 141 GB (B300, B200 or H200). Transformers support isn't in a release yet" } ], "run": "llama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 131072 -np 1 -fa on --jinja --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0 --port 8080", "runBuild": "flint-int4-gguf Q4_1", "checked": "2026-10-22", "minMemoryGB": 32 }, "family": { "lab": "Recursive", "family": "Flint", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/open-weights/#recursive" }, "area": "models", "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Recursive Superintelligence, Inc. (the Hugging Face organisation's full name)", "domain": "recursive.com", "domainRegistered": "", "endpointOnVendorDomain": null, "terms": "", "privacy": "", "statusPage": "", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "unknown", "checked": "2026-10-22", "notes": [ "The Hugging Face organisation RecursiveSI is named Recursive Superintelligence, Inc. and isn't verified by Hugging Face. Recursive's rec repository, which carries Recursive's logo and links recursive.com, downloads the INT4 build from RecursiveSI/flint-int4 at a pinned commit.", "Nothing is hosted, so the Apache 2.0 licence stands in for terms of service and no privacy policy is scored.", "The card links www.recursive.com, docs.recursive.com and github.com/recursive-oss/rec. 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"https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-spark-x2-6-4b.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs Spark-X2.6-4B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-spark-x2-6-4b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-27B", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-27b" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs Swift 1.5 Qwen3.8-Flash-Next", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-swift-1-5-qwen3-8-flash-next" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b.json", "title": "Recursive Flint vs ThinkingCap (Qwen3.8 27B)", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/recursive-flint-vs-thinkingcap-qwen3-8-27b" } ], "scores": [ { "key": "capability", "name": "Capability", "pending": true, "weight": 35 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "recursive-flint", "glm-5-3": 55, "key": "reach", "name": "Reach", "recursive-flint": 75, "weight": 25 }, { "by": 10, "edge": "recursive-flint", "glm-5-3": 50, "key": "risk", "name": "Risk", "recursive-flint": 60, "weight": 20 }, { "by": 20, "edge": "recursive-flint", "glm-5-3": 70, "key": "interface", "name": "Agent interface", "recursive-flint": 90, "weight": 10 }, { "by": 9, "edge": "recursive-flint", "glm-5-3": 58, "key": "upkeep", "name": "Documentation and upkeep", "recursive-flint": 67, "weight": 10 } ], "summary": "GLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Recursive Flint's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Recursive Flint leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. 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.", "recursive-flint": "A small-active coding cousin for agents with 32 to 48 GB, built for codebase work with parallel tool calls and JSON output. It needs llama.cpp b11803 or Ollama 0.40.8 or later, and the BF16 checkpoint needs a 141 GB GPU. Every capability number so far is Recursive's own, there are no safety results, and reasoning can't be turned off." } }, "kind": "anchor.page", "links": { "api": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/index.json", "html": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-recursive-flint", "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-recursive-flint.json", "llms": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/llms.txt", "markdown": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-recursive-flint.md", "mcp": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp", "slim": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-recursive-flint.min.md" }, "markdown": "GLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Recursive Flint's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Recursive Flint leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep. Both do open-weight models you run yourself.\n\n- GLM-5.3: grade B, 64.6/100, rank #18 of 107 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- Recursive Flint: grade C, 61/100, rank #49 of 107 open-weight models. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/recursive-flint.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/recursive-flint.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 3023 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\nWatch for: Z.ai's smallest build is 755.6 GB in FP8, with no local Ollama or LM Studio build\n\n### Recursive Flint (C)\n\nGood for: Agents doing repository work on a 32 to 48 GB Mac or NVIDIA box that want a fast sparse coder with documented tool calls and a plain licence.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reach, 75 against 55\n- Risk, 60 against 50\n- Agent interface, 90 against 70\n- Documentation and upkeep, 67 against 58\n\nAlso in its favour:\n- Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 3.5 against 2.8 out of 5\n\nWatch for: No independent benchmark results yet, every published score is Recursive's\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | GLM-5.3 | Recursive Flint | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Capability | 35%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Reach | 25% (25 this run) | 55 | 75 | Recursive Flint +20 |\n| Risk | 20% (20 this run) | 50 | 60 | Recursive Flint +10 |\n| Agent interface | 10% (10 this run) | 70 | 90 | Recursive Flint +20 |\n| Documentation and upkeep | 10% (10 this run) | 58 | 67 | Recursive Flint +9 |\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 | Recursive Flint |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Open-weight model | Open-weight model |\n| Vendor | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) | Recursive |\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) | Apache-2.0 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | no | no |\n| Last release | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-21 |\n| Terms last updated | no document linked | no document linked |\n| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 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) | 3.5/5 (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**Recursive Flint.** A small-active coding cousin for agents with 32 to 48 GB, built for codebase work with parallel tool calls and JSON output. It needs llama.cpp b11803 or Ollama 0.40.8 or later, and the BF16 checkpoint needs a 141 GB GPU. Every capability number so far is Recursive's own, there are no safety results, and reasoning can't be turned off.\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### Recursive Flint\n\n1. Quickest start is `ollama run flint` (Ollama 0.40.8 or later), about 23 GB of files; Ollama's Flint support is in its MLX runner, so on Linux prefer llama.cpp\n2. With llama.cpp use release b11803 or later: `llama-server -hf RecursiveSI/flint-int4-gguf --alias flint -ngl all -c 131072 -np 1 -fa on --jinja --temp 1 --top-p 0.95 --top-k 20 --min-p 0`, and keep --jinja on\n3. Set max_tokens to at least 32768 for hard tasks, reasoning counts against it and can't be switched off, and finish_reason length can mean no answer or tool call came out\n4. Send reasoning_content back on assistant messages when replaying the conversation, as Recursive's cards ask\n5. Strip \u003ctool_call\u003e, \u003ctool_response\u003e, \u003carg_key\u003e and \u003carg_value\u003e from untrusted tool output, the template doesn't escape them and a copied \u003c/tool_call\u003e can add a call\n6. Message content must be a string, flatten content-part arrays first\n7. Recursive's SGLang servers listen on 0.0.0.0 with no key, publish the port on localhost only or pass --api-key\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, GLM-5.3 or Recursive Flint?\n\nGLM-5.3 scores 64.6 (B) on agent readiness against Recursive Flint's 61 (C), and leads in 0 of 4 scored categories. Recursive Flint leads on reach, risk, agent interface and documentation and upkeep.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-recursive-flint.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/glm-5-3-vs-recursive-flint.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"glm-5-3\", \"b\": \"recursive-flint\"}`. 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