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
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| $0.0399 | $0.0784 | $0.0300 | 0.54s | 107 tok/s | ||
| $0.0600 | $0.3000 | $0.0300 | 0.65s | 152 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.3800 | $0.0200 | 0.55s | 141 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.53s | 151 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.5000 | $0.0400 | 0.57s | 146 tok/s | ||
| $0.1080 | $0.3500 | $0.0350 | 0.31s | 115 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.65s | 121 tok/s | ||
| $0.1080 | $0.3500 | $0.0350 | 0.31s | 108 tok/s | ||
| $0.0990 | $0.1050 | $0.0420 | 0.57s | 67 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.3000 | $0.0300 | 0.64s | 87 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.35s | 90 tok/s | ||
| $0.1125 | $0.3750 | $0.0300 | 0.79s | 109 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.02s | 109 tok/s | ||
| $0.1400 | $0.2400 | $0.0300 | 0.63s | 88 tok/s | ||
| $0.0420 | $0.1840 | $0.0410 | 0.53s | 83 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.99s | 77 tok/s | ||
Fast | $0.1875 | $0.6250 | $0.0375 | 0.60s | 134 tok/s | |
| $0.1200 | $0.4000 | $0.0240 | 0.99s | 75 tok/s | ||
| $0.1750 | $0.4700 | $0.0400 | 0.42s | 93 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.68s | 91 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.40s | 97 tok/s | ||
| $0.1200 | $0.4500 | $0.0300 | 0.73s | 78 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.46s | 123 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.75s | 72 tok/s | ||
41% off | $0.15$0.0885 | $0.50$0.2950 | $0.03$0.0177 | 1.85s | 44 tok/s | |
| $0.1000 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.46s | 58 tok/s | ||
50% off | $0.15$0.0750 | $0.50$0.2500 | $0.03$0.0150 | 2.44s | 28 tok/s | |
44% off | $0.15$0.0840 | $0.50$0.2800 | $0.03$0.0168 | 2.65s | 34 tok/s | |
| $0.1750 | $0.6250 | $0.0225 | 2.20s | 57 tok/s | ||
| $0.1750 | $0.6250 | $0.0225 | 1.17s | 47 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 7.36s | 35 tok/s | ||
| $0.0800 | $0.5000 | $0.0120 | 1.45s | 18 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.32s | 124 tok/s | ||
| $0.1000 | $0.4000 | $0.0300 | 1.14s | 64 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.01s | 68 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 3.26s | 38 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 0.68s | 93 tok/s | ||
| $0.0650 | $0.2400 | $0.0640 | 0.59s | 90 tok/s | ||
| $0.0750 | $0.2500 | $0.0150 | 4.09s | 44 tok/s | ||
| $0.1500 | $0.5000 | $0.0300 | 1.92s | 85 tok/s | ||
| $0.2250 | $0.7500 | $0.0450 | 1.09s | 129 tok/s | ||
| $0.0650 | $0.1800 | $0.0120 | 9.96s | 18 tok/s |
- Input $0.0399 / Output $0.0784107 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.06 / Output $0.30152 tok/s99.88% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.38141 tok/s93.79% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50151 tok/s99.64% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.50146 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.108 / Output $0.35115 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50121 tok/s99.64% uptime- Input $0.108 / Output $0.35108 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.099 / Output $0.10567 tok/s98.84% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.3087 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5090 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.1125 / Output $0.375109 tok/s100.00% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.50109 tok/s100.00% uptime- Input $0.14 / Output $0.2488 tok/s99.48% uptime
- Input $0.042 / Output $0.18483 tok/s98.78% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.5077 tok/s100.00% uptime- Input $0.1875 / Output $0.625134 tok/s99.93% uptimeFast
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.4075 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.175 / Output $0.4793 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5091 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5097 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.12 / Output $0.4578 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50123 tok/s99.61% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5072 tok/s99.82% uptime
- Input $0.0885 / Output $0.29541% off44 tok/s98.40% uptime
- Input $0.10 / Output $0.5058 tok/s98.19% uptime
- Input $0.075 / Output $0.2550% off28 tok/s99.97% uptime
- Input $0.084 / Output $0.2844% off34 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.175 / Output $0.62557 tok/s99.87% uptime
- Input $0.175 / Output $0.62547 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5035 tok/s98.72% uptime
Input $0.08 / Output $0.5018 tok/s99.94% uptime- Input $0.15 / Output $0.50124 tok/s99.46% uptime
- Input $0.10 / Output $0.4064 tok/s98.54% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5068 tok/s99.92% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5038 tok/s100.00% uptime
- Input $0.15 / Output $0.5093 tok/s97.03% uptime
- Input $0.065 / Output $0.2490 tok/s98.09% uptime
- Input $0.075 / Output $0.2544 tok/s99.84% uptime
Input $0.15 / Output $0.5085 tok/s98.95% uptime
Input $0.225 / Output $0.75129 tok/s98.75% uptime
Input $0.065 / Output $0.1818 tok/s91.68% 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
| $0.0220 | $0.2492 | 88.3% | 0.5% | ||
| $0.0281 | $0.4996 | 76.3% | 1.6% | ||
| $0.0312 | $0.0779 | 87.9% | 4.5% | ||
| $0.0327 | $0.2997 | 91.1% | 4.8% | ||
| $0.0330 | $0.3791 | 86.9% | 12.6% | ||
| $0.0336 | $0.4996 | 97.0% | 0.5% | ||
| $0.0353 | $0.3994 | 88.2% | 1.0% | ||
| $0.0387 | $0.4999 | 87.5% | 1.3% | ||
| $0.0390 | $0.3494 | 94.8% | 5.9% | ||
| $0.0406 | $0.2911 | 70.6% | 1.7% | ||
| $0.0410 | $0.3994 | 84.2% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.0412 | $0.4994 | 90.6% | 4.3% | ||
| $0.0412 | $0.1832 | 75.8% | 2.5% | ||
| $0.0422 | $0.4997 | 89.8% | 2.1% | ||
| $0.0446 | $0.3493 | 87.2% | 1.1% | ||
| $0.0447 | $0.4996 | 87.7% | 12.2% | ||
| $0.0455 | $0.4996 | 87.1% | 9.1% | ||
| $0.0472 | $0.4489 | 80.9% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.0475 | $0.4996 | 85.4% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.0476 | $0.4996 | 90.4% | 9.8% | ||
| $0.0478 | $0.2392 | 83.8% | 1.7% | ||
| $0.0483 | $0.3744 | 77.8% | 3.1% | ||
| $0.0504 | $0.2990 | 77.3% | 0.6% | ||
| $0.0516 | $0.1065 | 84.2% | 2.6% | ||
| $0.0545 | $0.4995 | 79.6% | 3.6% | ||
| $0.0553 | $0.2946 | 46.7% | 0.5% | ||
| $0.0562 | $0.4995 | 78.2% | 0.4% | ||
| $0.0590 | $0.2499 | 26.7% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.0594 | $0.4995 | 75.5% | 0.7% | ||
| $0.0604 | $0.4998 | 74.7% | 2.0% | ||
| $0.0612 | $0.1786 | 7.2% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.0631 | $0.4994 | 72.4% | 0.5% | ||
| $0.0643 | $0.2395 | 64.2% | 0.2% | ||
| $0.0667 | $0.4996 | 69.4% | 0.1% | ||
| $0.0708 | $0.4998 | 66.0% | 4.9% | ||
| $0.0711 | $0.4694 | 76.9% | 0.9% | ||
Fast | $0.0805 | $0.6244 | 71.3% | 0.1% | |
| $0.0920 | $0.4998 | 48.3% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.0968 | $0.7497 | 71.2% | 1.7% | ||
| $0.0983 | $0.4995 | 43.0% | 0.3% | ||
| $0.1226 | $0.6244 | 34.3% | 0.0% | ||
| $0.1374 | $0.6213 | 24.5% | 0.0% |
- Effective in $0.0220 / Effective out $0.2492Token share0.5%
- Effective in $0.0281 / Effective out $0.4996Token share1.6%
- Effective in $0.0312 / Effective out $0.0779Token share4.5%
- Effective in $0.0327 / Effective out $0.2997Token share4.8%
- Effective in $0.0330 / Effective out $0.3791Token share12.6%
- Effective in $0.0336 / Effective out $0.4996Token share0.5%
- Effective in $0.0353 / Effective out $0.3994Token share1.0%
- Effective in $0.0387 / Effective out $0.4999Token share1.3%
- Effective in $0.0390 / Effective out $0.3494Token share5.9%
- Effective in $0.0406 / Effective out $0.2911Token share1.7%
- Effective in $0.0410 / Effective out $0.3994Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.0412 / Effective out $0.4994Token share4.3%
- Effective in $0.0412 / Effective out $0.1832Token share2.5%
- Effective in $0.0422 / Effective out $0.4997Token share2.1%
- Effective in $0.0446 / Effective out $0.3493Token share1.1%
- Effective in $0.0447 / Effective out $0.4996Token share12.2%
- Effective in $0.0455 / Effective out $0.4996Token share9.1%
- Effective in $0.0472 / Effective out $0.4489Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0475 / Effective out $0.4996Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.0476 / Effective out $0.4996Token share9.8%
- Effective in $0.0478 / Effective out $0.2392Token share1.7%
- Effective in $0.0483 / Effective out $0.3744Token share3.1%
- Effective in $0.0504 / Effective out $0.2990Token share0.6%
- Effective in $0.0516 / Effective out $0.1065Token share2.6%
- Effective in $0.0545 / Effective out $0.4995Token share3.6%
- Effective in $0.0553 / Effective out $0.2946Token share0.5%
- Effective in $0.0562 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.4%
- Effective in $0.0590 / Effective out $0.2499Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0594 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.7%
- Effective in $0.0604 / Effective out $0.4998Token share2.0%
- Effective in $0.0612 / Effective out $0.1786Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.0631 / Effective out $0.4994Token share0.5%
- Effective in $0.0643 / Effective out $0.2395Token share0.2%
- Effective in $0.0667 / Effective out $0.4996Token share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0708 / Effective out $0.4998Token share4.9%
- Effective in $0.0711 / Effective out $0.4694Token share0.9%
- Effective in $0.0805 / Effective out $0.6244FastToken share0.1%
- Effective in $0.0920 / Effective out $0.4998Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.0968 / Effective out $0.7497Token share1.7%
- Effective in $0.0983 / Effective out $0.4995Token share0.3%
- Effective in $0.1226 / Effective out $0.6244Token share0.0%
- Effective in $0.1374 / Effective out $0.6213Token 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.