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GLM-5.3 is Z.ai’s advanced coding and agentic reasoning model built through scaled post-training on top of the GLM-5.2 base model. The release focuses on frontier coding, long-horizon software engineering, agent tasks, cyber evaluation, and reinforcement learning at scale. GLM-5.3 improves significantly over GLM-5.2 on complex coding benchmarks, real-world engineering environments, Terminal Bench 3.0, DeepSWE, Agents’ Last Exam, and Z.ai’s internal Code Bench. The model is trained on environments that resemble real professional work, including tasks involving codebases, infrastructure, documentation, compute clusters, experiments, bottleneck diagnosis, implementation, testing, and measurable optimization. Z.ai’s post-training stack includes IndexShare for efficient long-context processing, SAO for reinforcement learning on long-horizon tasks, and slime for large-scale asynchronous training. GLM-5.3 supports three thinking effort levels, including low, high, and max, with max recommended for coding tasks. The model also demonstrates emergent cyber capabilities across vulnerability discovery and exploitation benchmarks, prompting continued safety evaluation and hardening before weights are released. GLM-5.3 can be used through the GLM Coding Plan, ZCode, Claude Code, OpenCode, and other coding agent workflows. By combining stronger coding performance, long-horizon task execution, post-training scale, cyber evaluation, reasoning effort controls, and coding-agent integrations, GLM-5.3 supports advanced developer and research workflows.

Description

Step 3.5 Flash is a cutting-edge open-source foundational language model designed for advanced reasoning and agent-like capabilities, optimized for efficiency; it utilizes a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture that activates only approximately 11 billion of its nearly 196 billion parameters per token, ensuring high-density intelligence and quick responsiveness. The model features a 3-way Multi-Token Prediction (MTP-3) mechanism that allows it to generate hundreds of tokens per second, facilitating complex multi-step reasoning and task execution while efficiently managing long contexts through a hybrid sliding window attention method that minimizes computational demands across extensive datasets or codebases. Its performance on reasoning, coding, and agentic tasks is formidable, often matching or surpassing that of much larger proprietary models, and it incorporates a scalable reinforcement learning system that enables continuous self-enhancement. Moreover, this innovative approach positions Step 3.5 Flash as a significant player in the field of AI language models, showcasing its potential to revolutionize various applications.

API Access

Has API Yes 

API Access

Has API Yes 

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Integrations

Factory Droid Yes 
GLM Coding Plan Yes 
HTML Yes 
Hugging Face No 
JetBrains Junie Yes 
Kotlin Yes 
ModelScope No 
Ollama Yes 
OpenCode Go Yes 
OpenCode Zen Yes 
PHP Yes 
PyTorch Yes 
Roo Code Yes 
Vercel AI Gateway Yes 
Wafer Yes 
Yonoo Yes 
Z.ai Yes 
ZCode Yes 
Zo Computer Yes 
pandas Yes 

Integrations

Factory Droid No 
GLM Coding Plan No 
HTML No 
Hugging Face Yes 
JetBrains Junie No 
Kotlin No 
ModelScope Yes 
Ollama No 
OpenCode Go No 
OpenCode Zen No 
PHP No 
PyTorch No 
Roo Code No 
Vercel AI Gateway No 
Wafer No 
Yonoo No 
Z.ai No 
ZCode No 
Zo Computer No 
pandas No 

Pricing Details

Free
Open source
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Pricing Details

Free
Free Trial No 
Free Version Yes 

Deployment

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

Deployment

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

Customer Support

Business Hours No 
Live Rep (24/7) No 
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) No 
In Person No 

Types of Training

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

Vendor Details

Company Name

Z.ai

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

z.ai/

Vendor Details

Company Name

StepFun

Founded

2023

Country

China

Website

static.stepfun.com/blog/step-3.5-flash/

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