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Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash

z-ai/glm-5.3-flash

Model weights

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.

Modalities
In / out price
$0.0399 / $0.0784per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Aug 26, 2026

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).

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

Input
$0.04485/M tokens
Output
$0.4076/M tokens
Price history
No effective price data for this selection

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).

Throughput
176tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency
0.31s

P50, best provider

AutoExacto benchmarks
GPQA DiamondTAU-BenchDarkbloom92.5%--inference.net88.1%78.0%Z.ai88.2%77.4%DigitalOcean87.8%76.6%Baseten82.2%--inference.net (US)87.2%75.2%Baseten82.7%75.5%
+36 more providers

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.

Uptime (3d)The model was reachable. Request routed to a provider.
100.00%
Availability (3d)The model returned inference from any provider. Errors and empty responses count against it.
99.86%

Availability over the last 3 days

Last 72 hours
Availability 99.86%
3 Days Ago2 Days AgoYesterdayNow

Availability over the last 24 hours

OpenRouter Availability
99.85%
Without Routing
97.73%

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.

Benchmark score summary for Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (Artificial Analysis, Design Arena and Vals AI)
SourceBenchmarkScore
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash Intelligence Index27.8
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash Coding Index71.5
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash Agentic Index50.9
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash GPQA Diamond91.2%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash HLE39.9%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash AA-LCR80.0%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash τ-Bench Banking47.2%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash GDPval-AA57.4%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash CritPt15.4%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash SciCode51.6%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash Terminal-Bench 4.032.8%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash Terminal-Bench 2.184.3%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash AA-Omniscience Accuracy28.2%
Artificial AnalysisGLM-5.3-Flash AA-Omniscience Non-Hallucination Rate61.7%
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena 3D Elo1293
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Asciiart Elo1269
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Code Categories Elo1267
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Data Visualization Elo1258
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Game Development Elo1266
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena SVG Elo1271
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena UI Component Elo1296
Design ArenaGLM-5.3-Flash Models Arena Website Elo1257
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Access to Justice Benchmark71.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Code Migration v1.151.6%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash CyberBench v1.167.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash CyberOffense18.3%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash EMB v1.166.3%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Finance Agent v2.160.6%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Vals Finance Index55.8%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash GPQA Diamond86.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash HLAB-Vals-1.110.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash IOI52.5%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash LiveCodeBench80.5%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash LegalBench83.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Vals Legal Index71.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Legal Research Bench45.2%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash MedScribe88.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash MMLU Pro86.1%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash MMMU Pro86.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash ProgramBench0.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash ProofBench v1.121.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash SAGE89.3%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash SkillsBench40.2%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash SRE Bench0.8%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash SWE-bench92.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Tax Agent Bench31.6%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash TaxEval v275.6%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Terminal-Bench 4.037.4%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Terminal-Bench-Science2.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Vals Index50.9%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Vibe Code Bench 1-10016.0%
Vals AIGLM 5.3 Flash Vibe Code Bench v1.130.8%

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.

1.
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Claude Code
6.86Ttokens
2.
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Hermes Agent
3.58Ttokens
3.
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Portkey AI
3.37Ttokens
4.
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pi
1.54Ttokens
5.
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Lemonade
1.12Ttokens
Rest of OpenRouter
645B
Top 5 Apps
401B

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.

Z.ai: GLM Flash versions

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