Z.ai · Open weights
GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
GLM-5.3 Flash is Z.AI's natively multimodal 320B MoE reasoning model with 18B active parameters. This TEE deployment is verified through Redpill attestation with signed completion receipts.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Parallel tools
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- low · high · max
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.15
- Output
- $0.50
- Cache read
- $0.03
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 1M
- Max output
- 131.1K
- Average output (7 days)
- 845 tokens
- Longer than 66% of 465 models
Side by side
GLM 5.3 Flash TEE compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| GLM 5.3 Flash TEEZ.aiThis model | Claude Opus 4.8AnthropicRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | Anthropic |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 28, 2026 | May 28, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05MBest | 1M |
| Max output | 131.07KBest | 128K |
| Average output | 845 tokens | 360 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15Best | $5.00 |
| Output | $0.50Best | $25.00 |
| Cache read | $0.03Best | $0.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 75.4 tok/sBest | 72.6 tok/s |
| Time to first token | 3.8 s | 1.4 sBest |
| Request success (24h) | 99.9% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 41.8 | 41.8 |
| Coding Index | 71.5 | 74.3Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Parallel tools | Yes | No |
| Reasoning effort | low, high, max | low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
Intelligence Index
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE41.8
- Claude Opus 4.841.8
GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: Better than 86% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 71.5
- Claude Opus 4.8: 74.3Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 60.4%Top
- Claude Opus 4.8: 45.6%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 25.4%Top
- Claude Opus 4.8: 17.4%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 0.8%
- Claude Opus 4.8: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 1,452 EloTop
- Claude Opus 4.8: 1,319 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 1,642 EloTop
- Claude Opus 4.8: 1,454 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 15.4%
- Claude Opus 4.8: 22.8%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 80.0%Top
- Claude Opus 4.8: 77.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 11.7%
- Claude Opus 4.8: 19.4%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 39.9%
- Claude Opus 4.8: 48.7%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 91.2%
- Claude Opus 4.8: 92.0%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Opus 4.8: 62.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 32.8%Top
- Claude Opus 4.8: 21.7%
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 51.6%
- Claude Opus 4.8: 54.4%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Opus 4.8: 58.3%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
- Claude Opus 4.8: 94.4%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 80.0%Top
- Claude Opus 4.8: 77.7%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #12 · 29.6% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1533.3 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1502.9 |
| Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1469.2 |
| Instruction Following | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1491.0 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1513.1 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1490.0 |
| Expert | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1526.0 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1506.9 |
| German | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1492.9 |
| Hard Prompts English | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1516.9 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1488.9 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1460.1 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1497.6 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #16 · 1504.1 |
| Industry Mathematical | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1506.5 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #18 · 1500.2 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1523.0 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1475.4 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1497.0 |
| Polish | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1485.4 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1495.0 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1480.5 |
| Vision Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1285.7 |
| Vision Style Control · Chinese | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1334.0 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1289.1 |
| Vision Style Control · Diagram | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1318.9 |
| Vision Style Control · English | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1281.4 |
| Vision Style Control · Homework | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1331.8 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1269.8 |
| Vision Style Control · Ocr | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1298.9 |
| Search Overall | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1204.1 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #9 · 1474.8 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1485.9 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode Main | Not in top 20 | #13 · 46.5% |
| FrontierCode Extended | Not in top 20 | #12 · 59.6% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on FrontierCode leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.FrontierCode
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #16 · 159.0 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #19 · 72.1% |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1.5% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1267 |
| Longform Writing | Not in top 20 | #15 · 80.8 |
| EQ-Bench 3 | Not in top 20 | #2 · 2058 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- Claude Opus 4.8
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | Claude Opus 4.8 |
|---|---|---|
| ASCII Art | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1276 |
| Agentic Game Dev | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1202 |
| Web Apps | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1233 |
| Full Stack | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1249 |
| Native Apps | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1236 |
| Mobile Apps | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1220 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 75.4 tok/s
- Faster than 51% of 250 models
- Time to first token
- 3.8 s
- Quicker than 48% of 250 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 95.9%
- About $0.0349 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 99.9%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "TEE/glm-5.3-flash",
"reasoning_effort": "low",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="TEE/glm-5.3-flash",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Z.ai
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