Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash

by Z.ai

z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
HealthyRank #2Up 1 places on last weekOpen weights

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...

Context

1Mtokens

About 1,498 pages of text at once

Max output

131Ktokens

About 187 pages in one answer

Intelligence

27.8/ 100

Above 42% of the catalogue

Output speed

77tokens/s

A 500-word answer in about 9.1 s

From public market statistics for this model

First token

1.0s

Reasoning models start later

From public market statistics for this model

Health, 30 days

99.70%

22 of 30 days without a fault

IranRouter’s measurements

Price & cost

Every rate in Rial. A request pays only for the tokens it actually uses.

Input44,629IRR / 1M tokens
Output404,947IRR / 1M tokens
Reasoning tokensThe output rate404,947IRR / 1M tokens
Cache read44,629IRR / 1M tokens
Image input tokensThe input rate44,629IRR / 1M tokens

With prompt caching, the fixed part of your prompt is billed at the cache-read rate on later requests.

What would this model cost you a month?

Monthly cost

11.31MIRR

377K IRR a day, 188 IRR each request

The same work on peer models

30 days at today’s rate.

Rial price over 90 days

It moves with the exchange rate; the steps are the maker’s own price changes. Built at today’s margin, so approximate if the margin changed in the window.

InputOutput

Performance, 30 days

Health is measured by IranRouter itself: a day counts as healthy unless requests to this model failed on our side or it could not be served. First token and speed come from IranRouter’s traffic, and from public market statistics for this model on days without enough of it.

Daily health99.70%

Time to first token1.32 s

Output speed65 tokens/s

Place in the market

By usage across the global model market.

Daily rank#2

Share of the day’s tokens8.8%

Among its peers

Cost of one message against intelligence; this model is highlighted.

Cost of one message, IRR (log scale)

Capabilities

Image inputYes
Audio inputNo
Tool callingYes
JSON outputYes
ReasoningReasoning levels: max, high, low
Web searchNo
Prompt cacheYes
Makes imagesNo
Open weightsYes
On the free planNo
Input
TextImageVideo
Output
Text

Parameters it accepts

frequency_penaltyinclude_reasoninglogit_biaslogprobsmax_tokensmin_pparallel_tool_callspresence_penaltyreasoningreasoning_effortrepetition_penaltyresponse_formatseedstopstructured_outputstemperaturetool_choicetoolstop_ktop_logprobstop_p

Other benchmarks

Intelligence index28
Coding index72
Agentic index51

Design contests

  • 3DElo: 1,315Win rate: 56%
  • UI componentsElo: 1,305Win rate: 53%
  • SVGElo: 1,281Win rate: 56%
  • Code (overall)Elo: 1,279Win rate: 49%
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  • Game devElo: 1,275Win rate: 47%
  • ASCII artElo: 1,272Win rate: 55%
  • WebsitesElo: 1,270Win rate: 48%
  • Data vizElo: 1,260Win rate: 50%

Standard tests

  • GPQA DiamondScore: 84%Tasks: 1,782
  • τ-bench Verified AirlineScore: 76%Tasks: 400

Start in a minute

The official OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs; only the address and the key change.

Base URLhttps://iranrouter.com/v1
Model IDz-ai/glm-5.3-flash
# pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://iranrouter.com/v1",
    api_key="ir-...",
)

r = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="z-ai/glm-5.3-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello, introduce yourself"}],
)
print(r.choices[0].message.content)
The full guide in the docs: keys, streaming and errors

Peer models

Its family and models with a close score; the last column compares one message’s cost with this model.

ModelAgainst this model
Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max PreviewQwen14,07028.4—262K4,719% dearer
Google: Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogle9,24730.5741M3,068% dearer
Z.ai: GLM 5.3Z.ai2,30131.7821M688% dearer
DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813DeepSeek11,52723.1521M3,848% dearer

Technical specs

ID
z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Maker
Z.ai
Tokenizer
Other
Released
Aug 26, 2026
Added to IranRouter
Aug 27, 2026
Context
1,048,576 tokens
Max output
131,072 tokens
Weights
zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash

Default parameters

top_p=0.95temperature=1

Scores by Artificial Analysis, Design Arena, as of Oct 31, 2026

Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashOne message about 290 IRRStart with this model