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GLM-5.3-Flash

GLMv5.3 FlashCurrent
byZ.aiZ.ai(ai lab)
Released August 26, 2026
78
OpenTools Scorenormalized /100
478
Valuescore / $M
OpenTools Score
Context1.3M tokens
Price (In / Out)$0.07/M / $0.25/M
Training CutoffNot disclosed
CategoryLarge Language Model
Max Output131.1K tokens

About GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5 model for efficient coding, long-horizon agent tasks, and long-context multimodal reasoning. It uses a hybrid sparse and linear attention design with 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters.

Capabilities

textvisionvideo inputcodetool usereasoninglong contextopen weights

Input Modalities

textimagevideo

Output Modalities

text

Technical Details

API Identifier
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Category
Large Language Model
Context Window
1,310,720 tokens
Max Output Tokens
131,072 tokens

Tags

open-weightsreasoningcodingmultimodallong-contextglm

Benchmarks

Performance scores for GLM-5.3-Flash across standard benchmarks.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1Artificial Analysis · Aug 2026
57%
MMLUOfficial · Aug 2026
88.1%

Pricing

Token pricing for GLM-5.3-Flash API usage.

Input Tokens

$0.07/M

per million tokens

Output Tokens

$0.25/M

per million tokens

Pricing Calculator

Input cost$0.08
Output cost$0.13
Estimated monthly cost$0.20

OpenRouter lists a limited-time discounted price of $0.075/M input and $0.25/M output. Standard first-party style pricing is commonly $0.15/M input and $0.50/M output; cache-read pricing may vary by provider.

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