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GLM 5.3 Flash

by Z Ai

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

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GLM 5.3 Flash

Added 3 Sept 2026

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Overview

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...

How to use / API access

Call via OpenRouter with model id `z-ai/glm-5.3-flash`.

  • openrouter · z-ai/glm-5.3-flash Docs

OpenRouter id: z-ai/glm-5.3-flash

Benchmarks

  • Intelligence Index (artificial-analysis): 41.8 index
  • Coding Index (artificial-analysis): 71.5 index
  • Agentic Index (artificial-analysis): 50.9 index
  • Design Arena 3d (other): 1318 elo · #16
  • Design Arena asciiart (other): 1267 elo · #12
  • Design Arena codecategories (other): 1284 elo · #21
  • Design Arena dataviz (other): 1261 elo · #31

Notes

GLM 5.3 Flash is listed in the EDNA Models directory from the OpenRouter catalogue.

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USAGE / OPENROUTER

How much GLM 5.3 Flash is used

Tokens processed through OpenRouter each day. It shows what developers actually run, not every company's private traffic.

Tokens, last 7 days
12.2T 0%
Requests, last 7 days
688M
Tool calls, last 7 days
133M
Intelligence score
41.8
People's vote
1471
Average cost per request
18.7¢
Price per million tokens
$0.048 in · $0.16 out
02.5T5T19 Sept: 2.7T tokens, 51M requests20 Sept: 2.5T tokens, 76.3M requests21 Sept: 4.4T tokens, 67.1M requests22 Sept: 3.2T tokens, 47M requests23 Sept: 2.4T tokens, 54M requests24 Sept: 2T tokens, 51.2M requests25 Sept: 2.1T tokens, 49.1M requests26 Sept: 1.3T tokens, 59.1M requests27 Sept: 1T tokens, 49.1M requests28 Sept: 1.3T tokens, 54.7M requests29 Sept: 1.5T tokens, 49.3M requests30 Sept: 1.4T tokens, 42.9M requests1 Oct: 1.5T tokens, 43.2M requests2 Oct: 1.7T tokens, 49.8M requests3 Oct: 1.2T tokens, 37.1M requests4 Oct: 1.2T tokens, 33.6M requests5 Oct: 1.6T tokens, 186M requests6 Oct: 1.7T tokens, 126M requests7 Oct: 1.7T tokens, 68.4M requests8 Oct: 1.8T tokens, 181M requests9 Oct: 2T tokens, 65.1M requests10 Oct: 1.6T tokens, 45.2M requests11 Oct: 1.8T tokens, 51.4M requests12 Oct: 2T tokens, 78.1M requests13 Oct: 1.9T tokens, 67.7M requests14 Oct: 1.8T tokens, 87.3M requests15 Oct: 1.8T tokens, 279M requests16 Oct: 1.7T tokens, 62.8M requests17 Oct: 1.5T tokens, 56.9M requests18 Oct: 1.4T tokens, 56.3M requests19 Sept3 Oct17 Oct18 OctSee where it ranks on the leaderboard →

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Intelligence Index: 41.8 (2026-10-18) ↗Coding Index: 71.5 (2026-10-18) ↗Agentic Index: 50.9 (2026-10-18) ↗
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