GLM-5.3 vs Qwen3.5 35B A3B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
GLM-5.3 is developed by Zhipu AI, while Qwen3.5 35B A3B comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.5 35B A3B was released in March 2026, and GLM-5.3 followed 5 months later in August 2026. GLM-5.3 is the larger model at roughly 753 billion parameters, against 35 billion for Qwen3.5 35B A3B.
We have 17 benchmark results for GLM-5.3 and 6 benchmark results for Qwen3.5 35B A3B, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
GLM-5.3 is available through an API at $1.40 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Qwen3.5 35B A3B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | GLM-5.3 | Qwen3.5 35B A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Zhipu AI | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 14, 2026 | March 1, 2026 |
| Parameters | 753B | 35B |
| Multimodal | No | No |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 131K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.40 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.40 | — |
| Average Score | 52.2% | 94.3% |
Verdict
GLM-5.3 leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: GLM-5.3 — 0.5, Qwen3.5 35B A3B — 0.9.
GLM-5.3 is newer: released 8/14/2026 vs 3/1/2026.
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