Z.aiText Generation/v1/ai/chat

GLM 5.3 Flash API

Access GLM 5.3 Flash through one API key. Z.ai Cheapest Multimodal GLM.

GLM 5.3 Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. Flash is for high-volume agents and coding tasks that also need to look at screenshots or video, at close to the lowest price on the platform.

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GLM 5.3 Flash API pricing

Pay per request from your YepAPI balance — no subscription, no monthly minimum. Prices updated October 23, 2026.

Token type	Price
Input	$0.22 / 1M tokens
Output	$0.74 / 1M tokens
Context window	1.0M tokens

What it costs	Per job	Per 1,000
Chat reply1K input + 500 output tokens	$0.0006	$0.59
RAG answer8K input + 800 output tokens	$0.0024	$2.35
Agent step with tools30K input + 2K output tokens	$0.0081	$8.08
Long document summary100K input + 2K output tokens	$0.023	$23.48

4,900+

Developers

2.3M+

API calls served

184

Endpoints

$0.01

Per call

Yep, that's it.

Try it live

Send a message and see GLM 5.3 Flash respond in real time.

POST/v1/ai/chatz-ai/glm-5.3-flash

Message *

Max Tokens

Maximum tokens in the response.

Stream

Real-time tokens

Hit "Send Request" to see the response

GLM 5.3 Flash specs

Provider	Z.ai
Model ID	z-ai/glm-5.3-flash
Endpoint	/v1/ai/chat
Type	Text Generation
Context window	1.05M tokens
Max output	131K tokens
Reasoning	No
OpenAI-compatible	Yes — /v1/ai/chat/completions

How to get a GLM 5.3 Flash API key

1
Create an account
Sign up at yepapi.com with Google or email. It takes about 30 seconds.
2
Create an API key
Open the dashboard, go to API Keys and create a key. Copy it — it starts with yep_sk_.
3
Call GLM 5.3 Flash
Send a request to /v1/ai/chat with the x-api-key header and model "z-ai/glm-5.3-flash".
4
Pay as you go
Usage is billed per request from your balance. Top up any amount; there is no subscription.

Strengths

✓

Near-zero cost

$0.22 per 1M input and $0.74 per 1M output tokens.

✓

Native multimodal

Accepts text, images and video.

✓

1M context

Handles up to 1,048,576 input tokens and returns up to 131,072 output tokens per call.

✓

Hybrid attention

Sparse plus linear attention keeps long-context accuracy at low cost.

Quick start

Copy this snippet and start making calls with GLM 5.3 Flash.

const res = await fetch('https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai/chat', {
  method: 'POST',
  headers: {
    'x-api-key': 'YOUR_API_KEY',
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "model": "z-ai/glm-5.3-flash",
    "messages": [
      {
        "role": "user",
        "content": "Explain API gateways in 2 sentences."
      }
    ],
    "maxTokens": 256
  }),
});
const { data } = await res.json();
console.log(data.message.content);

GLM 5.3 Flash vs similar models

Every model below runs on the same API key — switch by changing the model ID.

Model	Provider	Price	Context
GLM 5.3 Flash	Z.ai	$0.22 in / $0.74 out per 1M	1.0M
GLM 5.3 FlashX	Z.ai	$0.55 in / $1.85 out per 1M	1.0M
GLM 5	Z.ai	$1.48 in / $4.73 out per 1M	205K
GLM 5 Turbo	Z.ai	$1.77 in / $5.91 out per 1M	203K
GLM 5.3	Z.ai	$2.07 in / $6.50 out per 1M	1.0M
GLM 5.2	Z.ai	$2.07 in / $6.50 out per 1M	1.0M
Nemotron 3 Super	NVIDIA	$0 in / $0 out per 1M	262K
Qwen3.7 Flash	Qwen	$0.04 in / $0.19 out per 1M	1M

Why use GLM 5.3 Flash through YepAPI?

✓One API key for all models — no separate accounts

✓OpenAI SDK compatible — just change the base URL

✓No monthly minimums — pay per token

✓Switch models with one line of code

✓Full provider passthrough — citations, search results, and all extras included

✓Streaming and non-streaming support on every model

✓Works with Cursor, Claude, LangChain, and any LLM tool

✓Unified billing across all providers

GLM 5.3 Flash API — pricing, context window & access

GLM 5.3 Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. It pairs a 1,048,576-token context window with up to 131,072 output tokens per response, at $0.22 per 1M input and $0.74 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI.

Through YepAPI you call GLM 5.3 Flash on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with a single key — the same key that reaches GPT-6, Claude, Gemini, Grok and the SEO, SERP and scraping APIs. Input: text, images, video.

What is GLM 5.3 Flash?

GLM 5.3 Flash is a native multimodal model from Z.ai suited for efficient coding and long-horizon agent tasks. Its hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture keeps long-context behaviour accurate while cutting cost to $0.22 / $0.74 per 1M tokens, with text, image and video input, a 1,048,576-token context window and up to 131,072 output tokens. It accepts text, images, video as input, handles up to 1,048,576 tokens of context and returns up to 131,072 output tokens per call.

Build with GLM 5.3 Flash via YepAPI

YepAPI serves GLM 5.3 Flash on the OpenAI-compatible /v1/ai/chat endpoint. Point your base URL at YepAPI, add your key, and set the model string to glm-5.3-flash (or the full z-ai/glm-5.3-flash). Function calling, structured outputs and reasoning settings pass straight through, and switching to any other model on the platform is a one-string change per request.

GLM 5.3 Flash API pricing — $0.22 / 1M input, $0.74 / 1M output

GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.22 per 1M input tokens and $0.74 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, pay per token with no minimums. Failed calls are never charged, and every request is itemised in your dashboard API Logs so you can see exactly what a 131,072-token response cost.

GLM 5.3 Flash use cases

Flash is for high-volume agents and coding tasks that also need to look at screenshots or video, at close to the lowest price on the platform.

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What developers say

“Switched from SerpAPI and cut our SERP costs by 80%. Same data quality, way simpler billing.”
Marcus T.
SEO Platform Founder

“One API key for AI models, SERP data, and web scraping. Saved us from managing 4 separate providers.”
Priya S.
Full-Stack Developer

“The $5 free credit let us prototype our entire rank tracking feature before committing. No other API does that.”
Jake R.
Indie Hacker

Frequently asked questions

GLM 5.3 Flash costs $0.22 per 1M input tokens and $0.74 per 1M output tokens through YepAPI, billed per request with no monthly fee. For example, a chat reply (1K input + 500 output tokens) costs about $0.0006.

Sign up at yepapi.com (Google or email, about 30 seconds), open the dashboard and create an API key. The same key works for GLM 5.3 Flash and every other model — no separate Z.ai account or waitlist.

Use "z-ai/glm-5.3-flash" as the model on /v1/ai/chat. The short alias "glm-5.3-flash" also works.

Yes. Point the OpenAI SDK at https://api.yepapi.com/v1/ai with your YepAPI key and set model to "z-ai/glm-5.3-flash". Streaming works the same way, so existing OpenAI code only needs the base URL and key changed.

GLM 5.3 Flash supports a 1.0M token context window with up to 131K output tokens per request.