Model board / GLM-5.3-Flash

Verified 2026-10-15 against the pages listed below. Prices are USD per 1M tokens, list rate — no committed-use, enterprise or volume discount.

list rate. The launch promotion that halved it to $0.075/$0.015/$0.25 ended on 2026-09-09 as scheduled, and is no longer on the pricing page

stated on the GLM-5.3-Flash guide

cached input at 20% of base

Licence: MIT — stated in the Hugging Face LICENSE

Watch out

The launch promotion has ended, so $0.15/$0.50 is now the rate you are billed. Unlike GLM-5.3, its weights are plain MIT on Hugging Face — and it takes images and video, which GLM-5.3 does not. Thinking cannot be switched off

What we would use it for

The cheapest tier of the GLM-5.3 generation

What this has cost, week by week

Output price at each refresh since 2026-08-27. A vendor change is the provider changing its price. Our correction means this board changed what it prints and the provider's charge did not move — the two are never merged, because publishing the second as the first would be a price rise that never happened.

Where these numbers came from

• https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing
• https://docs.z.ai/guides/capabilities/cache
• https://docs.z.ai/guides/vlm/glm-5.3-flash
• https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash

No number on this page was written that was not read from one of those pages on 2026-10-15. If one is wrong, send us the source URL and it is corrected in the next weekly refresh, with a changelog line saying what was wrong — contact@naderu.com.

Discussed in Naderu Weekly

• The name stayed. The model didn't. — 2026-09-10
• Nobody changed a price this week — 2026-09-03
• The price has a clock on it — 2026-08-27

The rest of the board

This row sits alongside 69 others on the model board, refreshed every week. The same data as JSON, and the terms for using it, are at /board-data.