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K2 Horizon 375B A23B vs GLM 5.3

K2 Horizon 375B A23B (IFM) and GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 13 September 2026

As of 13 September 2026, GLM 5.3 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#6 vs #30); and K2 Horizon 375B A23B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose K2 Horizon 375B A23B if…

  • you want to self-host: K2 Horizon 375B A23B ships open weights while GLM 5.3 is restricted license.
  • you want the more recently listed model — K2 Horizon 375B A23B was listed 1 September 2026, GLM 5.3 18 August 2026.

Choose GLM 5.3 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #6 against #30 (81.5 vs 67.3 points).
  • you want provider choice — 25 listed API providers against 0.

K2 Horizon 375B A23B vs GLM 5.3: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of K2 Horizon 375B A23B and GLM 5.3
FieldK2 Horizon 375B A23BIFMGLM 5.3Z.ai
ModelCap Index position#30#6
Index score67.381.5
EvidenceEstimatedMeasured
Input price / 1M tokensUnlisted$1.09
Output price / 1M tokensUnlisted$3.43
Context window— tokens1.3M tokens
Max output tokens—131K
API providers listed025
Weight accessOpen weightsRestricted license
Input modalitiesTextText
First listed1 September 202618 August 2026
PublisherIFMZ.ai

Evidence: global-corpus-prior over 186 held-out anchors (21%); launch card against 6 resolved peers on 11 rows (79%); optimism haircut 0 from cross-lab-probe; shrunk 4.1 toward the measured corpus · 4 public benchmark observations across 4 boards. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: K2 Horizon 375B A23B vs GLM 5.3

Public benchmark boards where K2 Horizon 375B A23B or GLM 5.3 has a published result
BoardK2 Horizon 375B A23BGLM 5.3Leads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)—15261514–1537MaxOnly one result
LMArena AgentLMArena—2.6%2.0%–3.3%MaxOnly one result
AA Intelligence IndexArtificial Analysis—44.9intelligence-index:v4.3:maxOnly one result
AA Terminal-Bench 2.1Artificial Analysis—83.9%terminal-bench:2.1:terminus-2:e2b:pass-at-1:3-repeats:source-model="GLM-5.3 (max)":reasoning=trueOnly one result
AA Humanity's Last ExamArtificial Analysis—42.3%hle:may-2025:text-only-2158:no-tools:pass-at-1:source-model="GLM-5.3 (max)":reasoning=trueOnly one result
Terminal-Bench 4.0Terminal-Bench (Laude Institute)—41.8%38.6%–45.1%Claude Code · MaxOnly one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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K2 Horizon 375B A23B vs GLM 5.3: common questions

Is K2 Horizon 375B A23B better than GLM 5.3?

GLM 5.3 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 13 September 2026: #6 against #30. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it. Their published uncertainty intervals overlap, so the rank difference alone does not establish a reliable capability advantage for your workload.

Is K2 Horizon 375B A23B cheaper than GLM 5.3?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, K2 Horizon 375B A23B or GLM 5.3?

Both publish a —-token context window.

Which is better for coding, K2 Horizon 375B A23B or GLM 5.3?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are K2 Horizon 375B A23B and GLM 5.3 open-weight models?

K2 Horizon 375B A23B: Open weights. GLM 5.3: Restricted license. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run K2 Horizon 375B A23B and GLM 5.3?

ModelCap currently lists 0 API providers for K2 Horizon 375B A23B and 25 for GLM 5.3, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this K2 Horizon 375B A23B vs GLM 5.3 comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 13 September 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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