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GLM-5.3-Flash

Weights available

Open-weight Z.ai model with a 1M-token context window and image input. Released August 26, 2026. Weights on Hugging Face.

Access details: Z.ai open weights (Hugging Face)

The Hugging Face repository. Download the weights and run them yourself or with a host.

zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash

Also on the Z.ai API as glm-5.3-flash

Updated Oct 1, 2026

Capabilities & limits

Context window
1M
Maximum output
Not published
Image input
Supported
Tool calling
—
Structured output
Not published

Hosted price

USD / 1M tokens
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.50

What Z.ai charges for glm-5.3-flash, its API version of this model.

Free to download. Running the weights costs whatever your hardware or host charges.

Price history
Oct 1, 2026

Input Not applicable per million tokens

Oct 1, 2026

Output Not applicable per million tokens

Technical details

Parameters
320B
Active parameters
18B
Architecture
Transformers class Glm5NextForConditionalGeneration
Training / knowledge cutoff
Not published
Input modalities
Text, image, video
Output modalities
Text

License

MIT (Hugging Face model card license: mit)

How they describe it

the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series

Release & lifecycle

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

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