Zhipu AIChina· released Aug 2026· open weights

GLM 5.3 Flash

Name: GLM 5.3 Flash
Author: Zhipu AI

Provisional: 10 comparable tests so far. Ranked once it reaches 6 across 3 counting categories.

Zhipu AI, China. One of 7 models from this lab on the Index.

Third-party publishedLow confidence (thin coverage)

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Snapshot September 8, 2026

OpenCharts Index

48.0

Provisional: not enough comparable tests or counting categories to rank yet · 10 comparable tests · 1 counting categories

Drop any single test and the Index lands between 32.7 and 58.2.

Needs more results (2 of 8 so far)

Averaging 38.6 on the 2 it has; the score opens at 4 of 8.

Distance to today's frontier on the hardest tests. Not a measure of intelligence.

What it's known for

GLM 5.3 Flash, in 10 results.

Strongest in math (48.0). Its widest gap is on FrontierMath Tier 4, 82.5% behind the best published result. No comparable results yet in knowledge, agentic and long context. Between 50% and 60% behind the best published results, on average.

Strongest category

Math

Competition and research mathematics, graded on the final answer or the proof.

48.0

Mock AIME 2024–202593.9% · 94% of best
FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)55.8% · 60% of best
ProofBench21.0% · 21% of best
FrontierMath Tier 417.1% · 18% of best

Mean of 4 of the category's 5 comparable tests. Counts toward the Index.

Best single result

Mock AIME 2024–2025

Solve competition mathematics problems that have a single exact integer answer.

93.9%

93.9% of the best (100.0%) · #28 of 78.

Olympiad-style problems need long, careful chains of reasoning, and there is no partial credit.

Where it trails

FrontierMath Tier 4

Solve the hardest FrontierMath tier: problems that take expert mathematicians days.

17.1%

82.5% behind the best published result (97.6%) · #35 of 51.

The deepest end of the set. Progress here signals genuinely new capability.

Not measured yet

No comparable result yet in these 3 categories. A blank is a blank, never a zero, and it does not lower the Index.

Knowledge
Agentic
Long context

Covered, but not averaged into the Index:

Reasoning2 of 6 tests · needs 3 · mean 69.9
Coding2 of 7 tests · needs 4 · mean 62.0
Multimodalsingle-test category, shown beside the Index · 88.4
Human preferencesingle-test category, shown beside the Index · 90.5

Every score, with its source

See it at work

What GLM 5.3 Flash was asked to do, and how it did.

Every test it has taken, by category, with the kind of task it faced, who produced the number and where the result landed against the best published one. The examples are original and illustrative, never items from the datasets themselves.

Human preference · mean 90.5 across 1 comparable test · a single-test category, shown beside the Index and never averaged into it

Text ArenaLeaderboard

Answer the same prompt as a rival model; real users vote blind on which answer they prefer.

1,474

45% expected win rate against the board leader (1,507)
#23 of 92

board 2026-09-02

Source: Arena

Every result is read against the best published one on its test: percent scores as a share of the best above chance, Arena ratings as the expected win rate against the board leader, open-ended values on a log scale. Sitting a harder exam never lowers a model. Every number links to the publisher that produced it.

Head to head

GLM 5.3 Flash against whoever you pick.

Choose a rival. Every counted test both have taken appears side by side as a share of the best published result on that test, with the category means above. A win is a higher share; a gap under 2 points is a tie, because one item on a 45-problem exam is 2.2 points and publishers' own standard errors are of that order.

GLM 5.3 Flash

provisional·Index 48.0D

0 : 8

wins · 0 ties · 8 shared

GPT-6 Astra

#1·Index 99.0A+

GPT-6 Astra comes out ahead on 8 of the 8 tests both have taken.

Category means

Reasoning
69.9
99.6
Knowledge
—
100.0
Coding
62.0
97.7
Math
48.0
99.8
Agentic
—
98.5
Multimodal
88.4
—
Human preference
90.5
—

Shared tests · biggest gaps first

FrontierMath Tier 4Math
17.1%
97.6%
−82.5
ProofBenchMath
21.0%
99.0%
−78.0
CritPtReasoning
15.4%
31.7%
−50.4
Code Arena (WebDev)Coding
1,605
1,797
−50.3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)Math
55.8%
93.7%
−40.4
SciCodeCoding
46.1%
56.5%
−16.7
GPQA DiamondReasoning
90.2%
95.8%
−7.9
Mock AIME 2024–2025Math
93.9%
100.0%
−6.1

Bars are distances to the best published result on each test (percent scores above chance, Arena ratings as win rate against the leader, open-ended values on a log scale). Raw values as the publishers report them.

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Scores

Every test, every source

The best published run per benchmark, the raw value as the publisher reports it, who produced the number, how close it comes to the best published result on that test, and where the model sits among every model scored on it. Percent scores are read above chance, Arena ratings as a win rate against the board leader, open-ended values on a log scale. A test with too few models to compare against is shown but not counted.

Category means

Reasoning69.9 · 2/6
Knowledge—
Coding62.0 · 2/7
Math48.0 · 4/5
Agentic—
Multimodalbeside88.4 · 1/1
Human preferencebeside90.5 · 1/1
Long context—

Mean · tests taken of the category's comparable tests. A faded category either rests on fewer than half of them or is a single-test category (marked “beside”), which is shown next to the Index and never averaged into it.

GPQA DiamondEpoch-runReasoning

90.2%

92.1% of the best (95.8%), above chance
62th percentile of 78 · n = 198

max

Source: Epoch AI — AI Benchmarking Hub

CritPtLeaderboardReasoning

15.4%

47.8% of the best (32.3%)
68th percentile of 78

Source: Epoch AI — AI Benchmarking Hub

SciCodeLeaderboardCoding

46.1%

74.3% of the best (62.0%)
43th percentile of 73 · n = 338