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Beam represents Reflection’s inaugural open-weight model, characterized as a sparse Mixture-of-Experts framework featuring a staggering 501 billion parameters, of which 23 billion are actively utilized, specifically crafted for tasks involving coding, reasoning, and agentic functions. Its prowess is derived from extensive pretraining and reinforcement learning, having been developed using a vast dataset of 23.8 trillion diverse, high-quality tokens sourced from the web, public domains, and proprietary licensed materials. With a targeted emphasis on enhancing coding and agentic capabilities, Beam is engineered to provide competitive open-weight performance while ensuring efficient inference compute. This model adeptly handles a wide array of tasks, including intricate software engineering, terminal operations, STEM activities, web searches, tool utilization, and general knowledge inquiries. Reinforcement learning techniques have been employed to bolster its abilities in multi-step reasoning, tool application, and responsiveness to environmental feedback. Moreover, users have the flexibility to manage the balance between efficiency and performance through an adjustable reasoning effort parameter, thus tailoring the model's output to better suit their specific needs.

Description

GLM-5.3-Flash is a multimodal foundation model from Z.ai built for high-efficiency reasoning, coding, agents, and visual understanding. The model contains 320 billion parameters in total but activates only 18 billion parameters during inference, helping reduce compute requirements. Its architecture combines linear attention with sparse attention so it can efficiently handle both local dependencies and relevant information spread across very long contexts. Z.ai also introduced IndexPool to reduce the memory and latency overhead associated with long-context retrieval at context lengths reaching one million tokens. The model was pretrained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal dataset that incorporates both textual and visual information. GLM-5.3-Flash is designed for software engineering tasks, autonomous workflows, frontend development, computer use, document analysis, and other professional workloads that benefit from visual reasoning. Its visual coding capabilities allow it to inspect rendered interfaces, identify layout or interaction problems, and use those observations to revise its work. Benchmark results published by Z.ai show that it improves substantially over GLM-5.2 on multiple coding and agentic tests while remaining competitive with more expensive frontier models. GLM-5.3-Flash can be accessed through Z.ai services and is also available as downloadable model weights for deployment through supported open inference frameworks.

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API Access

Has API Yes 

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Cheaper Inference No 
Claude Code No 
DeepSeek Harness No 
GLM Coding Plan No 
Hermes Agent No 
OpenClaw No 
OpenCode Go No 
OpenCode Zen No 
OpenRouter No 
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Z.ai No 
omp No 

Integrations

Cheaper Inference Yes 
Claude Code Yes 
DeepSeek Harness Yes 
GLM Coding Plan Yes 
Hermes Agent Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
OpenCode Go Yes 
OpenCode Zen Yes 
OpenRouter Yes 
Pi Agent Yes 
Z.ai Yes 
omp Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Pricing Details

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises Yes 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows Yes 
Mac Yes 
Linux Yes 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Reflection

Country

United States

Website

reflection.ai/blog/introducing-beam

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2019

Country

China

Website

z.ai

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