GLM 5.3 Flash

by Z.ai · served by NEAR AI

Confidential
near/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Input
$0.11/1M tokens
Output
$0.70/1M tokens
Context
1Mtokens
Max output
1Mtokens
Knows to
-
Released
26 Aug 2026

About

GLM-5.3-Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai. It is suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks.

Pricing

Input$0.11per 1M prompt tokens
Output$0.70per 1M generated tokens, reasoning included

What a request costs

Typical requestEachPer 1,000
Short chat reply1,500 in · 400 out$0.0004$0.448
Question over a long document40,000 in · 800 out$0.0050$5.04
Agent tool step20,000 in · 1,200 out$0.0031$3.08

At the developer-API rate, before any provider promotion or prompt-cache saving. In the app, the model picker shows what a message costs on your plan before you send it.

Benchmarks

Intelligence41.8#38 of 285
Coding71.5#34 of 163
Agentic50.9#13 of 127

Head-to-head rankings

  1. #10SVGModel arenaElo 128657% wins
  2. #13ASCII artModel arenaElo 126454% wins
  3. #14UI componentsModel arenaElo 131855% wins
  4. #163DModel arenaElo 131756% wins
  5. #21CodeModel arenaElo 128549% wins
  6. #21Game devModel arenaElo 128347% wins
  7. #26WebsitesModel arenaElo 127449% wins
  8. #30Data vizModel arenaElo 126350% wins

Scores from Artificial Analysis; bars are scaled to the best model on our list. Rankings from Design Arena head-to-head votes. Published by OpenRouter alongside its catalogue.

Call it from code

OpenAI-compatible: point any OpenAI SDK at https://api.privateer.pro/v1 and set model. Keys are created in the app under Settings.

cURL
curl https://api.privateer.pro/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PRIVATEER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "near/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash",
    "messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Hello" }]
  }'
Python
import os
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
    api_key=os.environ["PRIVATEER_API_KEY"],
)
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="near/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)
JavaScript
import OpenAI from "openai";

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: "https://api.privateer.pro/v1",
  apiKey: process.env.PRIVATEER_API_KEY,
});
const reply = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: "near/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash",
  messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
console.log(reply.choices[0].message.content);

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Prices are USD at the developer-API rate, as of 16 Oct 2026, rebuilt daily from the providers’ live catalogues. ← All models