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GLM-5.3-Flash

Z AIGLMOpen WeightMIT · Commercial OK

Description

GLM-5.3-Flash is the first natively multimodal model in Z.AI's GLM-5 series: a 320B-total / 18B-active MoE with hybrid sparse and linear attention (plus mHC), a 1M-token context window, and strong coding and long-horizon agent performance. MIT open weights are on Hugging Face. Launched 2026-08-26 after stealth testing as ox-alpha on OpenRouter and OpenCode. List pricing is $0.15/$0.50 per million input/output tokens (a temporary 50% promo ends 2026-09-09 16:00 UTC).

Release Date
2026-08-26
Parameters
320.0B
Context Length
1.0M
Modalities
image, pdf, text, video

Capability Radar

41
general
68
coding
91
reasoning
67
science
60
agents
80
multimodal

Rankings

Domain#RankScoreSource
Agentic Capability34
55.0
LS
Code Ranking39
89.0
AA
General Ranking42
71.0
AA
Math Reasoning49
81.0
LB
Multimodal Ranking67
54.0
LS
Reasoning42
78.0
LB
Science48
77.0
AA

Benchmark Scores (LLM Stats)

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))

Agents

Toolathlon78.4%SR
OfficeQA Pro62.4%SR
AutomationBench48.8%SR
Agents' Last Exam26.3%SR

Code

DeepSWE 1.163.4%SR
NL2Repo56.3%SR

General

GDPval-AA1773.00 / 3000SR
Artificial Analysis57.0%SR

Reasoning

CharXiv-R89.4%SR
Terminal-Bench 2.184.3%SR
Humanity's Last Exam55.3%SR

Vision

MMVU80.5%SR
Chartography78.0%SR
MVBench77.8%SR
BabyVision53.4%SR

AA Evaluation Indices

(Artificial Analysis)
Gpqa(NYU + Cohere + Anthropic (2023))
91.2
Terminalbench V2 1
84.3
Lcr(Artificial Analysis)
80.0
Coding Index(Artificial Analysis)
71.5
Scicode(UIUC + Argonne National Lab (2024))
51.6
Tau Banking
47.2
Intelligence Index(Artificial Analysis)
41.8
Hle(Center for AI Safety + Scale AI (2025))
39.9
Terminalbench V4 0
32.8

LLM Stats Category Scores

(LLM Stats (zeroeval))
Legal
100
Finance
100
Agents
100
Reasoning
100
General
100
Multimodal
80
Spatial Reasoning
80
Video
80
Code
70
Vision
70
Math
60
Tool Calling
60

Pricing

Input Price$0.15 / 1M tokens
Output Price$0.5 / 1M tokens
Blended Price (3:1)$0.237 / 1M tokens
Cache Read Price$0.03 / 1M tokens
Cache Write PriceFree

Speed

Tokens/sec67.5
Time to First Token2.51s
Time to Answer32.14s

Provider Price Ranking

Provider Price Ranking

48 providers

Cheapest: ZAIMost Expensive: ZenMux
ProviderInputOutput
1ZAICheapest
$0
$0
2DeepInfra
$0
$0
3FriendliAI
$0
$0
4Novita
$0
$0
5Pareto Inference
$0.06
$0.2
6302.AI
$0.075
$0.25
7EmpirioLabs AI
$0.075
$0.25
8NEAR AI Cloud
$0.08
$0.5
9IteraCompute
$0.08
$0.28
10Standard Compute
$0.08
$0.5
11DevPass (LLM Gateway)
$0.088
$0.25
12NanoGPT
$0.1
$0.3
13Vultr
$0.1
$0.35
14Cortecs
$0.1
$0.35
15AIHubMix
$0.11268
$0.39438
16Kenari
$0.11429
$0.34286
17Melious
$0.11592
$0.46368
18Vancine
$0.12
$0.4
19Boundless
$0.12
$0.4
20GreenPT
$0.12775
$0.51102
21engy
$0.135
$0.45
22Z AIPRIMARY
$0.15
$0.5
23OpenCode Go
$0.15
$0.5
24Vivgrid
$0.15
$0.5
25OpenCode
$0.15
$0.5
26Ollama Cloud
$0.15
$0.5
27DigitalOcean
$0.15
$0.5
28Neuralwatt
$0.15
$0.5
29OrcaRouter
$0.15
$0.5
30Neon
$0.15
$0.5
31CrossModel
$0.15
$0.5
32Ofox
$0.15
$0.5
33TokenGo
$0.15
$0.5
34Prime Inference
$0.15
$0.5
35AI/ML API
$0.15
$0.5
36Bothub
$0.1566
$0.522
37Charm Hyper
$0.16332
$0.5444
38above.dev
$0.165
$0.55
39Requesty
$0.2
$0.6
40TensorX
$0.2
$0.5
41Opper
$0.2
$0.5
42Privatemode AI
$0.2311
$0.7511
43Zhipu AI
$0.29879
$1.04577
44OpenRouter
$0.37
$1.25
45Kilo Gateway
$0.37
$1.25
46Z.AI
$0.37
$1.25
47CommandCode
$0.37
$1.25
48ZenMux
$0.375
$1.25

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