Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Model weightsGLM-5.3-Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai. It is suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. Its hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture maintains accurate long-context behavior while reducing compute overhead.
Providers
Different companies host the same model. OpenRouter routes your request to one of them based on the routing mode you pick: Balanced (price + speed), Nitro (fastest), or Floor (cheapest).
| $0.1200 | $0.3800 | $0.0200 | 0.55s | 152 tok/s | ||
| $0.0600 | $0.3000 | $0.0300 | 0.68s | 140 tok/s | ||
| $0.0399 | $0.0784 | $0.0300 | 0.50s | 98 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.46s | 155 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.5000 | $0.0400 | 0.59s | 157 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.67s | 139 tok/s | ||
| $0.0420 | $0.1840 | $0.0410 | 0.41s | 100 tok/s | ||
| $0.1080 | $0.3500 | $0.0350 | 0.36s | 135 tok/s | ||
| $0.1125 | $0.3750 | $0.0300 | 0.71s | 134 tok/s | ||
| $0.1080 | $0.3500 | $0.0350 | 0.39s | 132 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.3000 | $0.0300 | 0.75s | 107 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.36s | 113 tok/s | ||
| $0.0650 | $0.2400 | $0.0640 | 0.37s | 99 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.90s | 105 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.23s | 138 tok/s | ||
| $0.1400 | $0.2400 | $0.0300 | 0.59s | 100 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.40s | 101 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.74s | 97 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.86s | 126 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1s | 109 tok/s | ||
| $0.1750 | $0.4700 | $0.0400 | 0.45s | 102 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.72s | 91 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.4000 | $0.0240 | 0.81s | 71 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.20s | 107 tok/s | ||
| $0.2250 | $0.7500 | $0.0450 | 0.49s | 154 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.44s | 122 tok/s | ||
| $0.1000 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.02s | 89 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.4500 | $0.0300 | 0.78s | 83 tok/s | ||
Fast | $0.1875 | $0.6250 | $0.0375 | 0.61s | 133 tok/s | |
41% off | $0.15$0.0885 | $0.50$0.2950 | $0.03$0.0177 | 1.64s | 47 tok/s | |
| $0.1070 | $0.1130 | $0.0460 | 1.34s | 32 tok/s | ||
| $0.1750 | $0.6250 | $0.0225 | 1.10s | 39 tok/s | ||
44% off | $0.15$0.0840 | $0.50$0.2800 | $0.03$0.0168 | 2.58s | 35 tok/s | |
| $0.1750 | $0.6250 | $0.0225 | 1.14s | 40 tok/s | ||
| $0.0800 | $0.5000 | $0.0120 | 0.81s | 26 tok/s | ||
50% off | $0.15$0.0750 | $0.50$0.2500 | $0.03$0.0150 | 1.51s | 57 tok/s | |
| $0.1000 | $0.4000 | $0.0300 | 1.00s | 73 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.70s | 58 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 2.73s | 38 tok/s | ||
| $0.0750 | $0.2500 | $0.0150 | 6.86s | 46 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 7.09s | 20 tok/s | ||
| $0.0650 | $0.1800 | $0.0120 | 31.24s | 17 tok/s |
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.38152 tok/s93.10% uptime
- Input $0.06 / Output $0.30140 tok/s99.86% uptime
- Input $0.0399 / Output $0.078498 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50155 tok/s99.60% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.50157 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50139 tok/s99.60% uptime- Input $0.042 / Output $0.184100 tok/s98.64% uptime
- Input $0.108 / Output $0.35135 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.1125 / Output $0.375134 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.108 / Output $0.35132 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.30107 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50113 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.065 / Output $0.2499 tok/s97.88% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50105 tok/s100.00% uptime- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50138 tok/s99.40% uptime
- Input $0.14 / Output $0.24100 tok/s99.42% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50101 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5097 tok/s99.83% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50126 tok/s99.27% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50109 tok/s100.00% uptime- Input $0.175 / Output $0.47102 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5091 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.4071 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50107 tok/s99.96% uptime
Input $0.225 / Output $0.75154 tok/s99.71% uptime- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50122 tok/s99.57% uptime
- Input $0.10 / Output $0.5089 tok/s97.99% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.4583 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.1875 / Output $0.625133 tok/s99.93% uptimeFast
- Input $0.0885 / Output $0.29541% off47 tok/s98.22% uptime
- Input $0.107 / Output $0.11332 tok/s98.72% uptime
- Input $0.175 / Output $0.62539 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.084 / Output $0.2844% off35 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.175 / Output $0.62540 tok/s99.86% uptime
Input $0.08 / Output $0.5026 tok/s99.96% uptime- Input $0.075 / Output $0.2550% off57 tok/s99.96% uptime
- Input $0.10 / Output $0.4073 tok/s98.44% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5058 tok/s96.86% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5038 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.075 / Output $0.2546 tok/s99.83% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5020 tok/s98.52% uptime
Input $0.065 / Output $0.1817 tok/s92.09% uptime
Pricing
The average price customers actually pay for this model, next to the prices providers post. Caching and discounts mean the price actually paid is often well below the listed one.
Weighted average
GLM 5.3 Flash — Price history
| $0.0239 | $0.4994 | 82.5% | 2.1% | ||
| $0.0285 | $0.2491 | 77.4% | 0.4% | ||
| $0.0313 | $0.0778 | 86.5% | 4.7% | ||
| $0.0326 | $0.2997 | 91.1% | 5.5% | ||
| $0.0328 | $0.3790 | 87.2% | 12.3% | ||
| $0.0340 | $0.3990 | 89.5% | 1.7% | ||
| $0.0341 | $0.4996 | 96.6% | 0.3% | ||
| $0.0390 | $0.2904 | 73.5% | 2.0% | ||
| $0.0393 | $0.4997 | 86.7% | 1.3% | ||
| $0.0399 | $0.3493 | 94.1% | 6.4% | ||
| $0.0412 | $0.1833 | 73.5% | 2.5% | ||
| $0.0419 | $0.3994 | 82.9% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.0420 | $0.4993 | 89.9% | 4.6% | ||
| $0.0434 | $0.4997 | 88.8% | 2.2% | ||
| $0.0458 | $0.4996 | 86.8% | 9.0% | ||
| $0.0462 | $0.3493 | 85.4% | 1.4% | ||
| $0.0472 | $0.2391 | 84.4% | 1.7% | ||
| $0.0483 | $0.4995 | 84.7% | 0.3% | ||
| $0.0485 | $0.4996 | 84.6% | 8.4% | ||
| $0.0485 | $0.4996 | 89.3% | 9.2% | ||
| $0.0494 | $0.3742 | 76.5% | 3.1% | ||
| $0.0495 | $0.2990 | 78.3% | 0.7% | ||
| $0.0510 | $0.4488 | 76.6% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.0526 | $0.1059 | 80.8% | 2.3% | ||
| $0.0527 | $0.4995 | 81.1% | 0.8% | ||
| $0.0566 | $0.2497 | 30.7% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.0581 | $0.4996 | 76.6% | 2.9% | ||
| $0.0603 | $0.2947 | 39.8% | 0.9% | ||
| $0.0608 | $0.4998 | 74.4% | 2.0% | ||
| $0.0622 | $0.1788 | 5.3% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.0636 | $0.4995 | 71.9% | 0.7% | ||
| $0.0637 | $0.4995 | 71.9% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.0643 | $0.2395 | 62.9% | 0.3% | ||
| $0.0666 | $0.4998 | 69.5% | 5.7% | ||
| $0.0666 | $0.4994 | 69.4% | 0.6% | ||
| $0.0794 | $0.6237 | 62.6% | 0.0% | ||
Fast | $0.0824 | $0.6245 | 70.1% | 0.2% | |
| $0.0836 | $0.7494 | 78.6% | 2.4% | ||
| $0.0845 | $0.4695 | 67.0% | 0.8% | ||
| $0.0919 | $0.4995 | 48.4% | 0.3% | ||
| $0.1086 | $0.4993 | 34.4% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.1441 | $0.6176 | 19.6% | 0.0% |
- Effective in $0.0239 / Effective out $0.4994Token share2.1%
- Effective in $0.0285 / Effective out $0.2491Token share0.4%
- Effective in $0.0313 / Effective out $0.0778Token share4.7%
- Effective in $0.0326 / Effective out $0.2997Token share5.5%
- Effective in $0.0328 / Effective out $0.3790Token share12.3%
- Effective in $0.0340 / Effective out $0.3990Token share1.7%
- Effective in $0.0341 / Effective out $0.4996Token share0.3%
- Effective in $0.0390 / Effective out $0.2904Token share2.0%
- Effective in $0.0393 / Effective out $0.4997Token share1.3%
- Effective in $0.0399 / Effective out $0.3493Token share6.4%
- Effective in $0.0412 / Effective out $0.1833Token share2.5%
- Effective in $0.0419 / Effective out $0.3994Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.0420 / Effective out $0.4993Token share4.6%
- Effective in $0.0434 / Effective out $0.4997Token share2.2%
- Effective in $0.0458 / Effective out $0.4996Token share9.0%
- Effective in $0.0462 / Effective out $0.3493Token share1.4%
- Effective in $0.0472 / Effective out $0.2391Token share1.7%
- Effective in $0.0483 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.3%
- Effective in $0.0485 / Effective out $0.4996Token share8.4%
- Effective in $0.0485 / Effective out $0.4996Token share9.2%
- Effective in $0.0494 / Effective out $0.3742Token share3.1%
- Effective in $0.0495 / Effective out $0.2990Token share0.7%
- Effective in $0.0510 / Effective out $0.4488Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0526 / Effective out $0.1059Token share2.3%
- Effective in $0.0527 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.8%
- Effective in $0.0566 / Effective out $0.2497Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0581 / Effective out $0.4996Token share2.9%
- Effective in $0.0603 / Effective out $0.2947Token share0.9%
- Effective in $0.0608 / Effective out $0.4998Token share2.0%
- Effective in $0.0622 / Effective out $0.1788Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.0636 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.7%
- Effective in $0.0637 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0643 / Effective out $0.2395Token share0.3%
- Effective in $0.0666 / Effective out $0.4998Token share5.7%
- Effective in $0.0666 / Effective out $0.4994Token share0.6%
- Effective in $0.0794 / Effective out $0.6237Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.0824 / Effective out $0.6245FastToken share0.2%
- Effective in $0.0836 / Effective out $0.7494Token share2.4%
- Effective in $0.0845 / Effective out $0.4695Token share0.8%
- Effective in $0.0919 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.3%
- Effective in $0.1086 / Effective out $0.4993Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.1441 / Effective out $0.6176Token share0.0%
Performance
Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
P50, best across providers
P50, best provider
Uptime
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Availability over the last 3 days
Last 72 hoursAvailability over the last 24 hours
When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and provider routing options.
Benchmarks
Scores on standardized evaluations and this model’s own outputs on shared benchmark prompts. Higher percentages are better — and each rank shows where this model lands among the models evaluated on that source.
| Source | Benchmark | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence Index | 27.8 |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash Coding Index | 71.5 |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash Agentic Index | 50.9 |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash GPQA Diamond | 91.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash HLE | 39.9% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash AA-LCR | 80.0% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash τ-Bench Banking | 47.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash GDPval-AA | 57.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash CritPt | 15.4% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash SciCode | 51.6% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 32.8% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 28.2% |
| Artificial Analysis | GLM-5.3-Flash AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate | 61.7% |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena 3D Elo | 1292 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Asciiart Elo | 1269 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Code Categories Elo | 1267 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Data Visualization Elo | 1258 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Game Development Elo | 1266 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena SVG Elo | 1271 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena UI Component Elo | 1296 |
| Design Arena | GLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Website Elo | 1257 |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Access to Justice Benchmark | 71.1% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Code Migration v1.1 | 51.6% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash CyberBench v1.1 | 67.9% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash CyberOffense | 18.3% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash EMB v1.1 | 66.3% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Finance Agent v2.1 | 60.6% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Vals Finance Index | 55.8% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash GPQA Diamond | 86.4% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash HLAB-Vals-1.1 | 10.4% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash IOI | 52.5% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash LiveCodeBench | 80.5% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash LegalBench | 83.9% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Vals Legal Index | 71.1% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Legal Research Bench | 45.2% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash MedScribe | 88.9% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash MMLU Pro | 86.1% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash MMMU Pro | 86.0% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash ProgramBench | 0.0% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash ProofBench v1.1 | 21.0% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash SAGE | 89.3% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash SkillsBench | 40.2% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash SRE Bench | 0.8% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash SWE-bench | 92.0% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Tax Agent Bench | 31.6% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash TaxEval v2 | 75.6% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 37.4% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Terminal-Bench-Science | 2.9% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Vals Index | 50.9% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | 16.0% |
| Vals AI | GLM 5.3 Flash Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 30.8% |
Apps
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Activity
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
API
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
Available through EU in-region routing
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash is available through EU in-region routing. Requests sent to eu.openrouter.ai are decrypted in the EU and routed only to shared provider endpoints in Europe (the EU/EEA, the UK, and Switzerland).
- Providers in Europe
- Inceptron
- Prices in Europe
- Inceptron: $0.175/M tokens input, $0.47/M tokens output
- Base URL
https://eu.openrouter.ai/api/v1- Plan
- Requires Business or Enterprise. Self-serve on Business: no contract, no monthly minimum. OpenRouter Business for EU in-region routing
Fails closed: if no shared provider endpoint in Europe is available, the request errors instead of leaving the region. Requests served by your own BYOK key go to your deployment’s region, which you control. In-region routing docs
Documentation
Guides, cookbooks, blog posts, and tools for building with Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash on OpenRouter.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, the stealth model Ox Alpha was revealed to be ZAI's new model, GLM-5.3 Flash.
GLM-5.3-Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai. It is suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. Its hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture maintains accurate long-context behavior while reducing compute overhead.
The GLM 5.3 Flash documentation on OpenRouter includes the Open-Weight vs Closed-Weight Models: What's the Difference? blog post. The quickstart covers API keys and your first request, and the API reference lists every parameter.
GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.0399/M input tokens and $0.0784/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.03/M tokens.
GLM 5.3 Flash has a 1,048,576 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.
Yes. GLM 5.3 Flash accepts tools for function calling. It also supports structured outputs via a JSON schema in response_format.
GLM 5.3 Flash accepts text, images, and video as input and returns text.
GLM 5.3 Flash is served by 37 providers on OpenRouter: Relace, Wafer, Open Inference, Darkbloom, Tenstorrent, GMICloud, NEAR AI, NovitaAI and 29 more. Requests are routed to the best available provider, with automatic failover to the others, and you can pin or exclude providers with provider routing.
GLM 5.3 Flash was released on August 26, 2026.