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Z.ai mit Released Aug 26, 2026 Updated

GLM-5.3-Flash

ToolsGuide Scores, rankings, test results and price.

Model summary

  • Text #47 / 416

    498 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 503, tests 489

  • Vision #37 / 167

    502 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 504, tests 500

  • Coding #40 / 147

    423 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 453, tests 404

  • Agents #12 / 53

    514 / 1,000

    ToolsGuide Score· votes 453, tests 542

  • Price per 1M tokens

    In $0.15· Out $0.50

    $0.15

    Input · median text model $0.43

Summary

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai's model, released Aug 26, 2026. It's ranked in 4 categories and does best at text: #47 of 416, with a ToolsGuide Score of 498 against a median of 235.

It also ranks #37 of 167 for vision (502), #12 of 53 for agents (514), #40 of 147 for coding (423).

It costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, below the median text model ($0.43).

It has published results on 15 tests and has the top score on 3 of them, including Toolathlon and MVBench.

Specifications

Creator
Z.ai
Licence
mit
Released
Aug 26, 2026
Context window
1M tokens
Input price
$0.15 / 1M
Output price
$0.50 / 1M
Tests reported
15
Settings ranked
glm-5.3-flash, GLM-5.3-Flash

Model comparison

Against the ten best text models.

Text score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Vision score

ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000 · Higher is better

Input price

USD per 1M input tokens · Lower is better

Leaderboards

Where GLM-5.3-Flash sits among the top 20 in each category.

Text

#47 of 416 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full text leaderboard →

Vision

#37 of 167 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full vision leaderboard →

Coding

#40 of 147 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

Full coding leaderboard →

Agents

#12 of 53 · ToolsGuide Score out of 1,000, where 1,000 is a flawless model

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By task

Scored from votes on each kind of prompt alone, on the same 1,000-point scale.

Score against price

Text · the 10 priced models ranked closest · up and to the left is better value

Against its nearest rivals

Text prompts by kind · ToolsGuide Score from votes · hover for values

Text

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Vision

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Coding

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Test results

Every test GLM-5.3-Flash has a published result on, out of 100%, with its rank among the models that took it.

  • Humanity's Last Exam

    #14 / 108

    Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) is a multi-modal academic benchmark with 2,500 questions across mathematics, humanities, and natural sciences, designed to test LLM capabilities at the frontier of human knowledge with unambiguous, verifiable solutions

    55.3%

    Self-reported · In the text score· In the vision score

  • CharXiv-R

    #8 / 60

    Reading and reasoning about charts from scientific papers.

    89.4%

    Self-reported

  • DeepSWE 1.1

    #31 / 50

    DeepSWE 1.1 evaluates software engineering agents using the mini-swe-agent harness.

    63.4%

    Self-reported · In the coding score

  • Terminal-Bench 2.1

    #15 / 46

    Terminal-Bench 2.1 is an updated release of the Terminal-Bench benchmark that tests AI agents' ability to operate a computer via the terminal. It evaluates how well models handle real-world, end-to-end tasks autonomously, including compiling code, training models, setting up servers, system administration, data science workflows, and security tasks.

    84.3%

    Self-reported

  • Toolathlon

    #1 / 42

    Tool Decathlon is a comprehensive benchmark for evaluating AI agents' ability to use multiple tools across diverse task categories. It measures proficiency in tool selection, sequencing, and execution across ten different tool-use scenarios.

    78.4%

    Self-reported · In the agents score

  • NL2Repo

    #8 / 25

    NL2Repo evaluates long-horizon coding capabilities including repository-level understanding, where models must generate or modify code across entire repositories from natural language specifications.

    56.3%

    Self-reported · In the coding score

  • Agents' Last Exam

    #20 / 24

    Agents' Last Exam is a challenging benchmark for AI agents on hard, long-horizon tasks that test sustained reasoning, planning, and tool use, reported with and without tool access.

    26.3%

    Self-reported · In the agents score

  • AutomationBench

    #6 / 24

    AutomationBench is a tool-use benchmark that evaluates AI agents on automating real-world workflows, testing their ability to orchestrate tools and complete multi-step automation tasks.

    48.8%

    Self-reported · In the agents score

  • MVBench

    #1 / 18

    A comprehensive multi-modal video understanding benchmark covering 20 challenging video tasks that require temporal understanding beyond single-frame analysis. Tasks span from perception to cognition, including action recognition, temporal reasoning, spatial reasoning, object interaction, scene transition, and counterfactual inference. Uses a novel static-to-dynamic method to systematically generate video tasks from existing annotations.

    77.8%

    Self-reported

  • BabyVision

    #12 / 16

    A benchmark for early-stage visual reasoning and perception on child-like vision tasks.

    53.4%

    Self-reported

  • GDPval-AA

    #2 / 14

    GDPval-AA evaluates AI agents on economically valuable professional knowledge-work tasks and reports performance as an Elo score.

    59.1%

    Self-reported

  • Artificial Analysis

    #2 / 13

    Artificial Analysis benchmark evaluates AI models across quality, speed, and pricing dimensions, providing a composite assessment of model capabilities for real-world usage.

    57.0%

    Self-reported

  • OfficeQA Pro

    #8 / 12

    OfficeQA Pro evaluates AI models on professional knowledge-work questions and tasks drawn from real office workflows, including document analysis, spreadsheet reasoning, and information synthesis across business domains.

    62.4%

    Self-reported

  • MMVU

    #1 / 7

    MMVU (Multimodal Multi-disciplinary Video Understanding) is a benchmark for evaluating multimodal models on video understanding tasks across multiple disciplines, testing comprehension and reasoning capabilities on video content.

    80.5%

    Self-reported

  • Chartography

    #6 / 6

    Chartography evaluates professional chart understanding with 100 expert-written tasks drawn from real charts across science, engineering, finance, manufacturing, supply chain, and healthcare.

    78.0%

    Self-reported