X (Twitter) @LufzzLiz: GLM 5.3 Tested — Ranked Third Among Chinese Models, Fairly Fast

Core content summary

The author completed testing GLM 5.3 (the post was indexed by Google Chinese Search as one of the high-ranking results for "GLM-5.3 review") and shared evaluations of its speed and subjective performance.

Key points from the review (full original text)

"Finished testing glm 5.3. It's still fairly fast, given its relatively small parameter count. The results are decent to… This is a necessary excerpt; read the original source for full context.

Interpretation

• Speed: Fast (the author attributes this to its relatively small parameter count—743B is indeed smaller than Kimi K3 at 2.8T and DeepSeek V4 at 1.6T).

• Subjective performance: Somewhat stronger than Grok 4.6 and DeepSeek V4 Pro.

• Ranking among Chinese models: Third in the author's personal ranking (the top two were not specified; they are presumed to be the Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 series).

• Relative assessment: "Not as impressive as 5.2"—5.2 was the first major leap, while 5.3 is a continuation of that progress; "coding remains fairly solid"—coding is GLM's core strength, stable and reliable.

• The post's inclusion in Google results for Chinese-language reviews indicates that it was one of the earlier and more representative hands-on tests in the Chinese-language community.

Key data

• Platform: X (Twitter)

• Date: 2026-08-14 (testing was completed on the day of publication)

• Type: Personal subjective evaluation (Chinese)