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 | GPT 5.6 TerraOpenAIRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Z.ai | OpenAI |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 28, 2026 | Jul 9, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | 131.07KBest | 128K |
| Average output | 845 tokens | 556 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.15Best | $2.00 |
| Output | $0.50Best | $12.00 |
| Cache read | $0.03Best | $0.20 |
| Cache write | — | $2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 75.4 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 3.8 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 99.9% | 100.0%Best |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 41.8 | 42.1Best |
| Coding Index | 71.5 | 76.7Best |
| 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 | none, 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
- GPT 5.6 Terra
Intelligence Index
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE41.8
- GPT 5.6 Terra42.1
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
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 76.7Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 60.4%Top
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 59.6%
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 25.4%Top
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 24.5%
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 0.8%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 1,452 EloTop
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 1,332 Elo
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 1,642 EloTop
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 1,452 Elo
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 15.4%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 24.0%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 80.0%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 83.0%Top
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 11.7%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 27.2%Top
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 39.9%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 42.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 91.2%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 92.5%Top
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 71.2%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 32.8%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 35.4%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 51.6%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 55.0%Top
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 57.6%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: —
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 86.3%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE: 80.0%
- GPT 5.6 Terra: 83.0%Top
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Artificial Analysis
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #15 · 16.9% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Vision Style Control · Homework | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1321.1 |
| Document Overall | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1471.6 |
| Document Style Control Overall | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1476.7 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #13 · 160.1 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Not in top 20 | #13 · 96.5% |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not in top 20 | #13 · 83.9% |
| ARC-AGI-3 (Default harness) | Not in top 20 | #12 · 0.8% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on ARC Prize leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.ARC Prize
- GLM 5.3 Flash TEE
- GPT 5.6 Terra
| Leaderboard | GLM 5.3 Flash TEE | GPT 5.6 Terra |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1224 |
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1856 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
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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