Z.ai · text model

GLM-5.3-Flash

#16 of 31 text models on overall (provisional). $0.43 per 1,000 support replies at list price.

Price checked 25 Oct 2026 via OpenRouter
key_facts.txt
Released
26 Aug 2026
Context window
1M tokens
Longest reply
131K tokens
Open weights
Yes
Reasoning mode
Yes
Tool use
Yes
Reads
text, image, video, pdf
Writes
text
Knowledge cutoff
–
scores.txt
Overall55
Writing64
Support67
Coding69
Value60
Provisional, 0 to 100 among the text models we track, from Arena and Epoch AI. How we score.

Prices and where to run it

ProviderRegionInput per 1MOutput per 1MCached inputData retentionChecked
openrouterglobal$0.15$0.50$0.03Not checked25 Oct 2026, OpenRouter
zaiglobal$0.15$0.50$0.03Not checkedList price, unverified

Price history and a CSV download arrive with the open price dataset.

Benchmarks behind the scores

MeasureFigureRun dateSource
Epoch Capabilities Index153.125 Oct 2026Epoch AI
Arena text, coding1507.922 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, creative writing1440.822 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, instruction following1479.122 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, multi-turn147122 Oct 2026Arena
Arena text, overall1472.422 Oct 2026Arena
Arena WebDev1607.723 Oct 2026Arena
call_it.sh
Call it through OpenRouter
curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model": "z-ai/glm-5.3-flash", "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]}'
alerts.txt
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