GLM-5.3
−30% vs Z.ai
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GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's latest flagship model for coding, agents and long documents, with a 1M-token context and tool calling. It always reasons before answering; thinking cannot be turned off.
The real Z.ai model
Same weights, same API, same answers. We change only how you pay for it: one key for every maker, one bill, no separate account to open. Every figure on this page comes from Z.ai’s own page — check it.
Maker's own pagePrice
input / output · per 1M tokensAlibaba Cloud
−30%Only on FlintBeam−30% on every request
Direct on Alibaba Cloud: $1.13 / $3.96
Daily discount. Today's price can change.
Context
1,048,576
up to 131,072 out
131,072 by default here
Modalities
What it would cost you
1000 tokens is roughly 750 English words.
How it is served
Requests are retried automatically if a provider is unavailable.
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Use it from your code
from openai import OpenAI
# Works with the official openai package (pip install openai)
client = OpenAI(
base_url="https://api.flintbeam.com/v1",
api_key="sk-live-your-api-key"
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="z-ai/glm-5.3",
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are an experienced software engineer."},
{"role": "user", "content": "Describe the architecture of a distributed cache."}
],
temperature=0.7,
max_tokens=1500
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)