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GLM 5.3 Flash

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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...

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Data source

Only tracked on Vercel AI Gateway.

GLM 5.3 Flash usage over time

Vercel AI Gateway share of tokens, by day.

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Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

GLM 5.3 Flash holds 8.12% today, up from 1.78% at the start of the visible window.

Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-10-09 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/z-ai-glm-5-3-flash

Rank history

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-10-09 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/z-ai-glm-5-3-flash

Adoption curve vs the pantheon

GLM 5.3 Flash's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share
Data: Vercel AI Gateway as of 2026-10-09 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/z-ai-glm-5-3-flash

Citable stat

As of 2026-10-09, GLM 5.3 Flash holds 8.1% of Vercel AI Gateway token share, up 1.03pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (Vercel AI Gateway).

Cost per session

Median dollars spent on one GLM 5.3 Flash session, by coding agent and session length.

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.

Agent1 turn2–9 turns10–49 turns50+ turns
Claude Code$0.0025$0.0078$0.054$0.440
Kilo Code$0.0013$0.0087$0.043$0.356
Hermes Agent$0.0011$0.0054$0.037$0.258
Codex$0.0007$0.0047$0.025$0.052

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Data: OpenRouter session-cost dataset as of 2026-09-27 · Source: tidelines.ai/models/z-ai-glm-5-3-flash

Where to run it

GLM 5.3 Flash pricing by provider

Tidelines — LLM usage and market share

Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.

GLM 5.3 Flash is served by 31 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $0.14 per million tokens from StreamLake, and the most expensive is $1.60 from Reka. The largest context window offered is 1049k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.

ProviderInput $/MOutput $/MContextUptime
StreamLake$0.04$0.141024k100.00%
DeepInfra$0.07$0.251049k—
Novita$0.08$0.281049k100.00%
GMICloud$0.09$0.301049k100.00%
Decart$0.09$0.311049k100.00%
Phala$0.11$0.381049k100.00%
DigitalOcean$0.13$0.441049k100.00%
Makora$0.14$0.471049k100.00%
Relace$0.04$0.501049k100.00%
Near AI$0.08$0.501049k100.00%
Wafer$0.10$0.501049k100.00%
Modal$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
BaseTen$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
Crusoe$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
CoreWeave$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
InferenceNet$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
AtlasCloud$0.15$0.501049k0.00%
Fireworks · 1049k$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
Friendli$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
SiliconFlow$0.15$0.501049k96.67%
Together$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
Parasail · 1049k$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
Venice$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
Z.AI$0.15$0.501049k100.00%
Inceptron$0.11$0.551049k100.00%
Sail Research$0.04$0.601049k100.00%
Parasail · 1049k$0.19$0.631049k100.00%
Fireworks · 1049k$0.22$0.751049k100.00%
OpenInference$0.04$0.901049k100.00%
Morph$0.05$1.001049k56.67%
Reka$0.06$1.60262k100.00%