Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
budgetz-ai/glm-5.3-flash
GLM-5.3-Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai. It is suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. Its hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture maintains accurate long-context behavior while...
AA INDEX27.8
CONTEXT1049K
MODALITYtext+image+video->text
OPENNESSProprietary
ADDEDAug 2026
LAST PRICED48 min ago
Input
$0.15 /M
Output
$0.50 /M
Blended (40/60)
$0.36 /M
Cost / IQ
$0.5180 /M
Cost / IQ = Blended Price ÷ (AA Intelligence Score ÷ 40). Normalises price by model intelligence so you can compare value across tiers. Lower = better value per unit of intelligence. Not a transactional price.
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Price History
30-day view, daily close
Low: $0.36/M
High: $0.36/M
Average: $0.36/M
Pricing Variants
Cached Input
$0.03/M
24.8% cheaper than standard
Batch (async)
$0.21/M
42.2% cheaper than standard
In: $0.09/M · Out: $0.29/M
Provider Comparison
40 providers · click a column to sort
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Blended $/M ↑ | vs Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ↓Relace | $0.04 | $0.08 | $0.06 | -82.5% |
| Morph | $0.12 | $0.12 | $0.12 | -66.8% |
| Darkbloom | $0.07 | $0.18 | $0.13 | -62.8% |
| Wafer | $0.07 | $0.24 | $0.17 | -52.8% |
| GMICloud | $0.07 | $0.25 | $0.18 | -50.0% |
| Tenstorrent | $0.07 | $0.25 | $0.18 | -50.0% |
| Makora | $0.14 | $0.24 | $0.20 | -44.4% |
| OpenInference | $0.06 | $0.30 | $0.20 | -43.3% |
| StreamLake | $0.09 | $0.29 | $0.21 | -41.0% |
| Reka | $0.12 | $0.30 | $0.23 | -36.7% |
| InferenceNet | $0.11 | $0.35 | $0.25 | -29.7% |
| DigitalOcean | $0.11 | $0.38 | $0.27 | -25.0% |
| CoreWeave | $0.12 | $0.38 | $0.28 | -23.3% |
| SiliconFlow | $0.10 | $0.40 | $0.28 | -22.2% |
| River | $0.12 | $0.40 | $0.29 | -20.0% |
| NextBit | $0.12 | $0.45 | $0.32 | -11.7% |
| Engy | $0.14 | $0.45 | $0.32 | -10.0% |
| Near AI | $0.08 | $0.50 | $0.33 | -7.8% |
| DekaLLM | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.34 | -5.6% |
| Particle AI | $0.12 | $0.50 | $0.35 | -3.3% |
| Inceptron | $0.17 | $0.47 | $0.35 | -2.2% |
| AtlasCloud | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| BaseTen | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Cohere | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Crusoe | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| DeepInfra | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Fireworks | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Friendli | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| KT | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Mistral | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Modal | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Nebius | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Novita | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Parasail | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Together | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Venice | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| Z.AI | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.36 | median |
| TensorX | $0.20 | $0.50 | $0.38 | +5.6% |
| Berget | $0.28 | $0.55 | $0.44 | +23.0% |
| Sail Research | $0.17 | $0.63 | $0.45 | +23.6% |
Blended price = 40% input + 60% output. Median price shown in header is the reference price for this model.
Cost / IQ Comparison
Cost / IQ (quality-adjusted $/M)$0.5180/M
Cost per GPT-4-equivalent token. Lower = better value. Comparable across all models.
At or below SIT TPI
Value Ranking (by Cost / IQ)
Rank #187 of 190 budget models
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API Access
# Get this model's current price
curl https://api.inferenceindexer.ai/v1/models/z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
# Response (truncated)
{ "model_id": "z-ai/glm-5.3-flash", "name": "Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash", "blended_price_per_m": 0.36, "sit_adjusted_price": 0.517986 }