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Using GLM-5.3-Flash on OpenRouter

Implementation guide · GLM-5 · Zhipu AI

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OpenRouter exposes GLM-5.3-Flash through model ID z-ai/glm-5.3-flash. Use the setup steps, sourced pricing, capabilities, and official provider links below to validate this route before deployment.

Last refreshed 2026-08-26. Next refresh: weekly.

Quick Start

  1. 1
    Create an account at OpenRouter and generate an API key.
  2. 2
    Use the OpenRouter SDK or REST API to call z-ai/glm-5.3-flash — see the documentation for request format.
  3. 3
    You'll be billed $0.09/1M input, $0.30/1M output tokens. See full pricing.

Code Examples

See OpenRouter documentation for integration details.

Pricing on OpenRouter

TypePrice (per 1M)
Input tokens$0.09
Output tokens$0.30

Capabilities

VisionMultimodalReasoningJSON / Tool useStructured OutputsPrompt Caching

About GLM-5.3-Flash

GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai's first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series. It is a 320B-total / 18B-active Mixture-of-Experts model with a 1M-token context window and 131,072 max output tokens, supporting image, video, and file input plus function calling, tool use, structured outputs, reasoning, and prompt caching. MIT open weights are ungated on Hugging Face at zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash. Official API model ID: glm-5.3-flash. The same model was previously tested anonymously as ox-alpha; that name is not a separate catalog slug.

Model Specs

Released2026-08-26
Parameters320B total, 18B active
Context1m
ArchitectureMixture of Experts

Provider

OpenRouter
OpenRouter

OpenRouter, Inc.

New York, NY, USA