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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

Gemini 3.8 Flash stands out as Google's most advanced model for Flash, offering substantial enhancements compared to version 3.7 in areas such as software engineering, agent-based tasks, and intricate multi-step reasoning within specialized fields. Designed for extended coding projects and autonomous agents, it adeptly addresses complex engineering challenges in a comprehensive manner, ensuring the reliability essential for critical enterprise autonomy in specialized knowledge areas. This model excels particularly in quantitative and professional disciplines that demand sophisticated analysis and reporting, as well as in multi-step reasoning tasks spanning STEM, humanities, and professional domains. The improvements it showcases arise from a fundamental design decision: Gemini 3.8 Flash intensifies its focus on challenging tasks by conducting additional reasoning steps and utilizing tools iteratively, thus optimizing its performance. When operating at higher effort levels, it may consume more tokens to achieve superior outcomes, while developers also have the option to adjust to lower effort levels for varied results. Overall, this flexibility allows for tailored use based on project needs and desired outcomes.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

C Yes 
C# Yes 
CSS Yes 
Cheaper Inference Yes 
Cursor Yes 
Go Yes 
HTML Yes 
Java Yes 
JavaScript Yes 
JetBrains Junie Yes 
Kotlin Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
PHP Yes 
Python Yes 
R Yes 
Rust Yes 
SQL Yes 
Swift Yes 
TypeScript Yes 
Vercel AI Gateway Yes 

Integrations

C Yes 
C# Yes 
CSS Yes 
Cheaper Inference Yes 
Cursor Yes 
Go Yes 
HTML Yes 
Java Yes 
JavaScript Yes 
JetBrains Junie Yes 
Kotlin Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
PHP Yes 
Python Yes 
R Yes 
Rust Yes 
SQL Yes 
Swift Yes 
TypeScript Yes 
Vercel AI Gateway Yes 

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Pricing Details

No price information available.
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

Google

Country

United States

Website

google.com

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