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GLM-5.3-Flash

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A Z.ai model with a 1M-token context window, image input and tool calling. On the Z.ai Open Platform API since August 26, 2026.

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glm-5.3-flash

Open weights on Hugging Face: zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash

Updated Oct 1, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
1M
Maximum output
128K
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
Supported
Structured output
Supported

Pricing

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.50

Standard rates per million tokens. Discounts and long-context rates, where offered, are on Z.ai's pricing page.

Full rate card 4 rates

All prices in USD.

Input tokens

$0.15 per 1M tokens

Cached input

$0.03 per 1M tokens
  • prompt caching

Cached input storage

$0.00 per 1M tokens (storage unit not stated)
  • prompt caching
  • limited-time free; end date not stated

Output tokens

$0.50 per 1M tokens
Price history
Oct 1, 2026

Input $0.15 per million tokens

Oct 1, 2026

Output $0.50 per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
320B
Active parameters
18B
Architecture
Hybrid sparse and linear attention
Training / knowledge cutoff
Not published
Input modalities
Text, image, video, file
Output modalities
Text

How they describe it

the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series

What they say is new

it outperforms GLM-5.2 across benchmarks and real-world workloads at one-tenth the price

Release & lifecycle

First available
Aug 26, 2026
available
As of Oct 1, 2026

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Prices and availability as of October 20, 2026. Z.ai's own pages have the latest.