GLM-5.3-Flash
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian) · Zhipu (direct) · Lightweight, low cost, Thinking-only mode
GLM-5.3-Flash is the lightweight, low-cost tier of Zhipu's GLM-5.3 family, served on Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian). It is a multimodal understanding model with a 1M-token context window, priced per 1M tokens in CNY.
API pricing (official list price, CNY per 1M tokens)
| Input (cache miss) | ¥0.8 |
|---|---|
| Output | ¥2.8 |
| Cache hit | ¥0.23 |
| Time-based pricing | Single price around the clock |
| Billing currency | CNY (Chinese yuan) — the vendor's original billing currency, not converted |
Specifications
| Context window | 1024K tokens |
|---|---|
| Modalities | Text, Image understanding, Video understanding |
| Noted features | Lightweight, low cost, Thinking-only mode |
| Vendor / channel | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio (Bailian) · Zhipu (direct) |
| Price source | Alibaba Cloud Model Studio — GLM-5.3-Flash model page |
| Verified | 2026-10-28 |
Site calculation: estimated monthly cost at default usage
Site calculation, not a vendor quote. Assumptions: 100 calls/day · 2000 input / 800 output tokens per call · 30-day month · 30% cache hit rate. Same formula as the cost calculator.
| Effective input price | 30% × ¥0.23 (cache hit) + 70% × ¥0.8 (standard) = 0.63 CNY/1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input cost | 100 × 30 × (2000 ÷ 1,000,000) × 0.63 = ¥3.77 |
| Output cost | 100 × 30 × (800 ÷ 1,000,000) × ¥2.8 = ¥6.72 |
| Estimated monthly cost | ¥10.49 |
Notes and limitations
· Prices are official published list prices per 1M tokens in the original billing currency (here CNY). Limited-time promotions, resource packs and subscription discounts are not included; the vendor's console prevails.
· "Verified" is the date this page's figures were last checked against the official source linked above. Pricing changes over time — confirm on the source page before making decisions.
· The monthly cost above is this site's own calculation under fixed usage assumptions. It is not a vendor quote and does not constitute purchase advice.
· This page records no benchmark results and claims no leadership on any task. Editor's note: with a 1M-token context and per-million-token CNY pricing, it is a candidate worth testing for high-volume text workloads with occasional image or video input. Evaluate output quality on your own data before committing; this page makes no quality or performance ranking claims.