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Description

GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s advanced coding and agentic reasoning model built through scaled post-training on top of the GLM-5.2 base model. The release focuses on frontier coding, long-horizon software engineering, agent tasks, cyber evaluation, and reinforcement learning at scale. GLM-5.3 improves significantly over GLM-5.2 on complex coding benchmarks, real-world engineering environments, Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents’ Last Exam, and Z.ai’s internal Code Bench. The model is trained on environments that resemble real professional work, including tasks involving codebases, infrastructure, documentation, compute clusters, experiments, bottleneck diagnosis, implementation, testing, and measurable optimization. Z.ai’s post-training stack includes IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks, and slime for large-scale asynchronous training. GLM-5.3 supports three thinking effort levels, including low, high, and max, with max recommended for coding tasks. The model also demonstrates emergent cyber capabilities across vulnerability discovery and exploitation benchmarks, prompting continued safety evaluation and hardening before weights are released. GLM-5.3 can be used through the GLM Coding Plan, ZCode, Claude Code, OpenCode, and other coding agent workflows. By combining stronger coding performance, long-horizon task execution, post-training scale, cyber evaluation, reasoning effort controls, and coding-agent integrations, GLM-5.3 supports advanced developer and research workflows.

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.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

Cheaper Inference Yes 
Claude Code Yes 
GLM Coding Plan Yes 
Hermes Agent Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
OpenCode Go Yes 
OpenCode Zen Yes 
OpenRouter Yes 
Z.ai Yes 
Amp Yes 
C++ Yes 
Claw Code Yes 
ClinePass Yes 
HTML Yes 
JavaScript Yes 
Kilo Code Yes 
Ollama Yes 
Shiori Yes 
ZCode Yes 
pandas Yes 

Integrations

Cheaper Inference Yes 
Claude Code Yes 
GLM Coding Plan Yes 
Hermes Agent Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
OpenCode Go Yes 
OpenCode Zen Yes 
OpenRouter Yes 
Z.ai Yes 
Amp No 
C++ No 
Claw Code No 
ClinePass No 
HTML No 
JavaScript No 
Kilo Code No 
Ollama No 
Shiori No 
ZCode No 
pandas No 

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

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) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

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

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

z.ai/

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2019

Country

China

Website

z.ai

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