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Aikido Altar represents a cutting-edge open-weight security framework designed to empower organizations with advanced defensive security intelligence tailored for their infrastructures. This model is particularly suited for environments requiring sovereign security where sensitive assets like source code, architectural documents, vulnerability assessments, and other confidential information must remain within the organization's confines and not be shared with external inference services. Built on the GLM-5.3 architecture, Altar employs techniques such as quantization and expert pruning to compress the model size from an extensive 1.51 TB in full precision down to a more manageable 328 GB, all while maintaining the majority of the original model's reasoning and security features. The model retains 168 out of the original 256 routed experts in each backbone expert layer and adopts a W4A16 representation, enhancing its practicality for security tasks that require handling extensive and evolving context windows. The calibration of expert selection was conducted using internal pentesting data and multilingual sources, ensuring that no client information was utilized, which upholds the integrity of cybersecurity, programming, and linguistic capabilities. This innovative approach not only streamlines deployment but also fortifies the organization's security posture against emerging threats.

Description

GLM-5.3-Flash is a multimodal foundation model from Z.ai built for high-efficiency reasoning, coding, agents, and visual understanding. The model contains 320 billion parameters in total but activates only 18 billion parameters during inference, helping reduce compute requirements. Its architecture combines linear attention with sparse attention so it can efficiently handle both local dependencies and relevant information spread across very long contexts. Z.ai also introduced IndexPool to reduce the memory and latency overhead associated with long-context retrieval at context lengths reaching one million tokens. The model was pretrained on a 30-trillion-token multimodal dataset that incorporates both textual and visual information. GLM-5.3-Flash is designed for software engineering tasks, autonomous workflows, frontend development, computer use, document analysis, and other professional workloads that benefit from visual reasoning. Its visual coding capabilities allow it to inspect rendered interfaces, identify layout or interaction problems, and use those observations to revise its work. Benchmark results published by Z.ai show that it improves substantially over GLM-5.2 on multiple coding and agentic tests while remaining competitive with more expensive frontier models. GLM-5.3-Flash can be accessed through Z.ai services and is also available as downloadable model weights for deployment through supported open inference frameworks.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

Cheaper Inference No 
Claude Code No 
DeepSeek Harness No 
GLM Coding Plan No 
Hermes Agent No 
OpenClaw No 
OpenCode Go No 
OpenCode Zen No 
OpenRouter No 
Pi Agent No 
Z.ai No 
omp No 

Integrations

Cheaper Inference Yes 
Claude Code Yes 
DeepSeek Harness Yes 
GLM Coding Plan Yes 
Hermes Agent Yes 
OpenClaw Yes 
OpenCode Go Yes 
OpenCode Zen Yes 
OpenRouter Yes 
Pi Agent Yes 
Z.ai Yes 
omp Yes 

Pricing Details

$350 per month
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Pricing Details

$0.15 per 1M tokens (input)
Input: $0.15 per 1M tokens
Output: $0.50 per 1M tokens
Cached input: $0.03 per 1M tokens
Free Trial No 
Free Version No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Deployment

Web-Based Yes 
On-Premises No 
iPhone App No 
iPad App No 
Android App No 
Windows No 
Mac No 
Linux No 
Chromebook No 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) Yes 
Online Support Yes 

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
Online Support Yes 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) Yes 
In Person No 

Types of Training

Training Docs Yes 
Webinars No 
Live Training (Online) No 
In Person No 

Vendor Details

Company Name

Aikido Security

Founded

2022

Country

Belgium

Website

www.aikido.dev/blog/aikido-altar-open-weight-ai-sovereign-security

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2019

Country

China

Website

z.ai

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