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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...
OpenRouter share of tokens, by day.
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash holds 6.81% today, up from 1.96% at the start of the visible window.
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 2026-10-14, Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash holds 6.8% of OpenRouter token share, down 1.89pp over 30 days. Source: OpenRouter (openrouter.ai/rankings), as of 2026-10-14. tidelines.ai
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 | $0.0024 | $0.0084 | $0.058 | $0.453 |
| Kilo Code | $0.0012 | $0.010 | $0.052 | $0.408 |
| Hermes Agent | $0.0008 | $0.0058 | $0.041 | $0.287 |
| Codex | $0.0007 | $0.0048 | $0.032 | $0.064 |
Where to run it
Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash is served by 33 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $0.20 per million tokens from OpenInference, and the most expensive is $1.60 from Reka. The largest context window offered is 1049k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenInference | $0.048 | $0.20 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| StreamLake | $0.075 | $0.25 | 1024k | 100.00% |
| DeepInfra | $0.075 | $0.25 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Decart | $0.083 | $0.28 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Novita | $0.084 | $0.28 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Sail Research | $0.078 | $0.30 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| GMICloud | $0.090 | $0.30 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| InferenceNet | $0.12 | $0.39 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Phala | $0.13 | $0.42 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| DigitalOcean | $0.13 | $0.44 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Makora | $0.14 | $0.47 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Relace | $0.075 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Near AI | $0.080 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Wafer | $0.12 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| PrimeIntellect | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Modal | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| BaseTen | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Crusoe | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| CoreWeave | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| AtlasCloud | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | — |
| Fireworks · 1049k | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Friendli | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| SiliconFlow | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Together | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Parasail · 1049k | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Venice | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Z.AI | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Parasail · 1049k | $0.19 | $0.63 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Morph | $0.093 | $0.65 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Inceptron | $0.100 | $0.69 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| NextBit | $0.25 | $0.70 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Fireworks · 1049k | $0.22 | $0.75 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Reka | $0.060 | $1.60 | 1049k | 100.00% |