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Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash-20260826Hugging Face ↗
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...
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash usage over time
OpenRouter share of tokens, by day.
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash holds 11.57% today, up from 1.96% at the start of the visible window.
Rank history
Adoption curve vs the pantheon
Z.ai: 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?
Citable stat
As of 2026-09-01, Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash holds 11.6% of OpenRouter token share, up 9.61pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (OpenRouter).
Cost per session
Median dollars spent on one Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash session, by coding agent and session length.
Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.
| Agent | 1 turn | 2–9 turns | 10–49 turns | 50+ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | $0.0022 | $0.0052 | $0.038 | $0.343 |
| Kilo Code | $0.0011 | $0.0059 | $0.030 | $0.255 |
| Hermes Agent | $0.0015 | $0.0040 | $0.028 | $0.205 |
| Codex | $0.0009 | — | — | $0.037 |
Where to run it
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash pricing by provider
Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash is served by 23 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $0.25 per million tokens from GMICloud, and the most expensive is $0.50 from Cloudflare. The largest context window offered is 1311k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GMICloud | $0.07 | $0.25 | 1049k | 97.35% |
| Novita | $0.07 | $0.25 | 1049k | 99.19% |
| DeepInfra | $0.07 | $0.25 | 1049k | 99.49% |
| Z.AI | $0.07 | $0.25 | 1049k | 97.13% |
| Wafer | $0.10 | $0.35 | 1049k | 98.27% |
| Morph | $0.13 | $0.45 | 1049k | 99.41% |
| Makora | $0.14 | $0.47 | 1049k | 98.14% |
| Modal | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.93% |
| Sail Research | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.75% |
| StreamLake | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1024k | 98.85% |
| NextBit | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 97.75% |
| Fireworks | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.93% |
| Phala | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 98.12% |
| Friendli | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.69% |
| SiliconFlow | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 95.09% |
| DigitalOcean | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 98.74% |
| Together | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.05% |
| Reka | $0.15 | $0.50 | 262k | 99.92% |
| Parasail | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 94.19% |
| BaseTen | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.30% |
| Venice | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 99.02% |
| Io Net | $0.15 | $0.50 | 262k | 86.19% |
| Cloudflare | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1311k | 99.98% |