# GLM-5.3-Flash

> Source: <https://tokenstead.ai/models/glm-5-3-flash>
> Published: 2026-08-26 15:40:39+00:00

# GLM-5.3-Flash

MoE enthusiast**320B total MoE, only 18B active per token** - the first natively multimodal model in the GLM-5 series, released 2026-08-26 by Z.ai. The first open-source frontier model to pair **sparse attention with linear attention** in one hybrid architecture, cutting attention compute and KV cache by 3.01x and 4.44x vs GLM-5.3 while keeping precise long-context ability. Also adopts Manifold-Constrained Hyper-Connections (mHC). 1M context, MIT license on HuggingFace at `zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash`

, trained on a 30T-token multimodal corpus.

**This is the ox-alpha reveal.** Z.ai confirmed that the anonymous “ox-alpha” stealth model previewed free on OpenRouter/OpenCode from Aug 20 was an **early version of GLM-5.3-Flash** - and that the preview’s entire traffic load was served on **Chinese AI chips**. Per Z.ai (Zixuan Li), the official release is stronger and significantly more stable than the ox-alpha preview. OpenCode reported **42T tokens served in 6 days**, making it the most-used model after DeepSeek Flash’s 56-day run. The ox-alpha row in this catalog is superseded by this model.

**Native multimodal coding.** Visual capabilities are built into the coding loop - the model observes interfaces, rendered results, and interaction feedback, then tests and improves its work. Coordinates across code, browsers, and GUIs (BUA/CUA) for frontend dev, game creation, and Blender 3D scenes. Beyond coding it handles Office, financial research, and document workflows, producing finished PPTX/PDF/DOCX/XLSX.

**Benchmarks (Z.ai self-reported).** GLM-5.3-Flash vs GLM-5.2 and the frontier field - strongest open-source multimodal-coder result across the board, beating GLM-5.2 on every coding and agentic row and leading open-source vision (OfficeQA Pro, CharXiv w/ tools, Chartography w/ tools):

| Benchmark | GLM-5.3-Flash | GLM-5.2 | DeepSeek-V4-Vision-Exp | Opus 4.8 | GPT-5.6 Terra | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminal Bench 2.1 | 84.3 | 81.0 | 83.9 | 85.0 | 87.4 | 85.8 |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 63.4 | 46.2 | 59.3 | 58.0 | 69.6 | 65.3 |
| NL2Repo | 56.3 | 48.9 | 57.7 | 69.7 | - | - |
| Toolathlon Verified | 78.4 | 59.9 | 75.9 | 76.2 | 74.9 | - |
| AutomationBench v1.0.6 | 48.8 | 26.2 | 38.8 | 41.0 | 37.2 | 52.3 |
| Agents’ Last Exam | 26.3 | 20.4 | 27.3 | 27.0 | 28.0 | - |
| HLE w/ Tools | 55.3 | 54.7 | 55.1 | 57.9 | - | - |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1773 | 1504 | 1675 | 1582 | 1571 | 1527 |
| OfficeQA Pro | 62.4 | - | 57.9 | 48.9 | - | - |
| CharXiv Reasoning w/ Tools | 89.4 | - | 80.4 | 89.9 | 88.0 | 88.7 |
| Chartography w/ Tools | 78.0 | - | 64.3 | 75.0 | 68.0 | 65.0 |
| BabyVision | 53.4 | - | 35.1 | 46.8 | 61.6 | 70.9 |
| MVbench | 77.8 | - | 69.4 | 67.1 | 75.0 | 82.2 |
| MMVU | 80.5 | - | 72.7 | 67.4 | 75.8 | 82.3 |

**Access:** model code `glm-5.3-flash`

; OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible APIs; GLM Coding Plan (3x GLM-5.3 quota, off-peak 50% points). Recommended sampling: temperature 1, top_p 0.95, reasoning_effort max, thinking always on.

**Local-run status:** weights landed on launch day under MIT, but no community quant sizes are published yet, so no `model_variants`

are seeded (same posture as GLM 5.3 pre-quants). Treat launch benchmarks as Z.ai self-reported until independently replicated.

- 320.0B
- 1000k
- mit
- 🇨🇳 China
- Aug 2026

## Scores

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