GLM-5.3-Flash

by Z.ai

Released 8 days after GLM-5.3 · All Z.ai releases

GLM-5.3-Flash is the first natively multimodal model in Z.ai's GLM-5 series, released on August 26, 2026 with 320 billion total parameters and 18 billion active per token. It accepts images alongside text, supports a 1,048,576-token context window, and offers the same low, high, and max reasoning_effort levels as GLM-5.3, defaulting to max. Pre-training ran on a 30-trillion-token multimodal corpus. The architecture pairs linear-attention layers with sparse attention layers and adds Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections for scaling efficiency, a combination Z.ai says keeps long-context behavior precise while needing roughly three times less attention compute and a 4.4 times smaller KV cache than GLM-5.3. On Z.ai's numbers it scores 84.3 on Terminal-Bench 2.1, 63.4 on DeepSWE v1.1 against 46.2 for GLM-5.2, 70.75 on ParseBench, and 55.3 on Humanity's Last Exam with tools, which the company summarizes as ahead of GLM-5.2 across the board and close behind Claude Opus 4.8 on coding and agent benchmarks. Z.ai publishes the weights on Hugging Face under the MIT license. It fits agentic coding, GUI and office-document understanding, and long-horizon tool-use workloads where a small active-parameter count matters more than peak reasoning depth.

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Key info

Input
Output
Features
Context window
1M
Max output
131K
Input price
$0.15 /1M$0.03 cache read
Output price
$0.50 /1M
Released
  • EU residency available
  • US residency available
  • Zero data retention on pay-as-you-go
  • GDPR DPA available

Available routes

GLM-5.3-Flash runs on 21 different routes through the Opper gateway. Compare residency, zero data retention and training posture at a glance, with full data-handling detail per route below. In the EU it is served by Berget (Sweden), Greenference (EU multi-region), GreenPT and 4 more. See every GLM model hosted in the EU.

ProviderRegionZero data retentionTrainingInputOutputCache read
USNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
EUNo$0.28$0.56Input price
MultiNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
USNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
USNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
MultiNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
EUNo$0.04$0.16$0.01
EUNo$0.12$0.50$0.02
EUNo$0.16$0.45$0.07
EUNo$0.11$0.45$0.02
MultiNo (opt-in)$0.45$1.50$0.09
USNo$0.14$0.36$0.04
MultiNo$0.15$0.50Input price
MultiNo$0.17$0.55$0.03
USNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
Multi—$0.15$0.50$0.03
EUNo$0.20$0.60$0.07
MultiNo$0.15$0.50$0.03
EUNo$0.20$0.50$0.05
USNo$0.10$0.35$0.02
MultiNo$0.15$0.50$0.03

Live routes and prices as JSON: api.opper.ai/v3/models?q=glm-5.3-flash

Uptime and availability

GLM-5.3-Flash runs on 6 independently monitored routes through the Opper gateway. A direct integration leaves you on one of them, the gateway serves whichever is healthy.

100%effective uptime, last 30 days
Averaged across these routes on their own, a single provider reached 97.26% over the same window.
Daily status through the gateway, which serves each request from whichever route is healthy.
6 monitored providers serve GLM-5.3-Flash.

Measured over the last 30 days from each provider's official status feed via StatusGator. Refreshed hourly. 15 further routes for this model are not on the board yet and are not counted above. See uptime for every provider Opper monitors.

Data handling per route

Each route hosting GLM-5.3-Flash has its own privacy posture, residency, and GDPR terms. Postures are maintained by Opper with a last-verification timestamp.

Arcee — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for abuse monitoring only, for a window the provider does not state, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, window not stated.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Berget — Sweden🇸🇪

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

BytePlus — Multi-region

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for up to 180 days for abuse monitoring only, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, 180-day window.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (180-day retention)
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, 180 days, stored in Malaysia, a person can view samples
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

DeepInfra — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; unknown; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
unknown

DigitalOcean — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. US; dpf sccs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
Always on, holds flagged content, stored in United States
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
dpf sccs

Fireworks — Multi-region

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Greenference — European Union🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

GreenPT — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
Keeps nothing
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Inceptron — Sweden🇸🇪

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Melious — Germany🇩🇪

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Modal — Multi-region

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training by default; opt-in possible. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training by default; opt-in possible.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Morph — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: prompts and outputs are kept for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring only, and are not used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, 30-day window.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Abuse monitoring (30-day retention)
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content, a person can view samples
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Nebius — Multi-region

Content is retained: provider logging. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Retained: provider logging.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
Other
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Nextbit — Multi-region

Zero data retention: nothing is logged or used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Novita — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Perplexity — Multi-region

Content is retained: provider logging. Training posture pending review. GLOBAL; unknown.

Zero data retention
Retained: provider logging.
Logging
Other
Caching
Content cached for replay
Transfer mechanism
unknown

Sference — EU🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EEA; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
No subprocessor reads content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Tencent Cloud — Multi-region

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, keeps nothing
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

TensorX — European Union🇪🇺

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. EU; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
Caching
Content cached for replay
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
Not applicable — data stays in EU

Wafer — United States🇺🇸

Zero data retention: nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training. No training on customer data. US; SCCs; DPA available.

Zero data retention
Yes. Nothing is logged, held for abuse monitoring or used for training.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
No classifier
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
SCCs

Z.ai — Singapore🇸🇬

Zero data retention with abuse monitoring: nothing is logged or used for training; content flagged by abuse monitoring is held for review. No training on customer data. GLOBAL; unknown; DPA available.

Zero data retention
With abuse monitoring, flagged content held.
Training
No training on customer data.
Logging
None
Abuse monitoring
On by default, holds flagged content
Caching
Content cached for replay
Subprocessor access
Subprocessors may read content
GDPR DPA
DPA available
Transfer mechanism
unknown

Benchmarks

Independent benchmark scores — composite indices for reasoning, coding, and math, plus individual eval scores where available.

Global rank#50 of 682 LLMs
TierStrong
Output speed48 tok/s
First token2.85s
Intelligence Index41.8
Coding Index71.5
Reasoning & knowledge
GPQA Diamond
91%
Humanity's Last Exam
40%
Long-context reasoning
80%
Coding
SciCode
52%

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baseURL: "https://api.opper.ai/v3/compat",
});
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model: "glm-5.3-flash",
messages: [{ role: "user", content: "Hello" }],
});
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