Chinese AI labs · Vision & multimodal
GLM-5.3-Flash
The cheapest capable multimodal model in this entire report and plain MIT weights — but the posted rate is a 50%-off promo running to 9 Sep 2026, so model your budget on double it.
Open weights · Permissive (Apache, MIT, OpenMDW) · Data checked September 6, 2026 · Not a hands-on evaluation
Model ID glm-5.3-flash
- Parameters
- 320B total · 18B active320B total / 18B active MoE (sparse + linear hybrid attention)
- Architecture
- Mixture of experts
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokensMaximum input
- Max output
- 131,072 tokensPer response
- Input price
- $0.075 per 1M tokens
- Output price
- $0.25 per 1M tokens
- Cached input
- $0.015 per 1M tokens
- Blended price
- $0.1188 per 1M tokens3:1 input to output
- Knowledge cutoff
- Not recorded
- Released
- 2026-08-25
- Status
- ga
- Size band
- 120B and above
License and openness
GLM-5.3-Flash is released under the MIT. This is a permissive license. It generally allows use, modification and redistribution, including commercial use, subject to attribution and notice requirements. License terms can change between versions; confirm the text published with the weights you download.
Capabilities
| Input modalities | text, image, video, file |
|---|---|
| Output modalities | text |
What it is for
At a three-to-one input-to-output ratio, GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.12 per million tokens blended. A workload of one million input and 330,000 output tokens per day would run about $4.72 per month at list price, before caching or batch discounts.
Cost at list price
| Input | $0.075 per 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Output | $0.25 per 1M tokens |
| Cached input | $0.015 per 1M tokens |
| Blended, 3:1 | $0.1188 per 1M tokens |
Sources
- Source: docs.z.ai ↗
- Chinese AI labs pricing ↗
- API docs ↗
- Full reference record for GLM-5.3-Flash ↗
- Chinese AI labs in the reference ↗
Sources checked September 6, 2026. Specifications and prices change without notice; confirm against the provider before you commit.
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