---
title: "GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated API pricing"
canonical: https://uplinkswitch.ai/models/glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated
generated: 2026-10-20T19:41:23.281Z
source: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog
base_url: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1
---

# GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated API pricing

GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated API at $0.45/M input and $1.50/M output tokens. Same SDK, one key, one URL.

## Price per million tokens (USD)

| Tokens | Z.ai list price | UplinkSwitch | Under list |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Input | — | $0.45 | — |
| Cached input | — | billed at the input rate | — |
| Output | — | $1.50 | — |

## Model

- Model id: `glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated`
- Formats: OpenAI SDK
- Base URL: https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1
- Context window: 1,048,576 tokens
- Input: text
- Daily real-model check: Same fingerprint since Oct 20 (https://uplinkswitch.ai/proof#glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated)

## Request

### Python · OpenAI SDK

```python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1",
    api_key="sk-uplink-live-...",
)

completion = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this in one line."}],
)
print(completion.choices[0].message.content)
```

### TypeScript · OpenAI SDK

```typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';

const client = new OpenAI({
  baseURL: 'https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1',
  apiKey: 'sk-uplink-live-...',
});

const completion = await client.chat.completions.create({
  model: 'glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated',
  messages: [{ role: 'user', content: 'Summarize this in one line.' }],
});
console.log(completion.choices[0].message.content);
```

### curl

```bash
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'
```

## Questions

### What is GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated?

GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated is a model from Z.ai, with a 1,048,576-token context window, taking text input. Through UplinkSwitch it answers the OpenAI SDK on one key as glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated.

### How much does the GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated API cost?

$0.45 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.

### Is GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated free?

It is pay as you go: prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee, billed per token. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token reply costs about $0.0012.

### What is the GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated context window?

GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated has a 1,048,576-token context window. It takes text input.

### What is the GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated model id?

glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated. Send it as the model through the OpenAI SDK with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.

### How do I get a GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated API key?

Create one in the console at uplinkswitch.ai/console: prepaid credit from $10, no subscription, and the key is live at once. The same key calls GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated and every other model in the catalog; send it as the bearer token with base URL https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1.

### Is it the real GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated?

Every day each model gets the same test prompt, and a model always counts that prompt the same way; a swapped one would not. GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated's latest result: Same fingerprint since Oct 20.

### Is there a GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated API?

Yes: glm-5.3-flash-apex-abliterated on the OpenAI format at https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1, $0.45 input and $1.50 output per million tokens. No weights to download and no GPU of your own; the key also runs every other model in the catalog.

### What is GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated based on?

Cantina Security’s Apex Flash 1, a reinforcement-learning post-train of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 Flash for security work, with its refusal behavior modified, per both cards.

### What license does GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated have?

Both the Apex Flash 1 card and its abliterated variant’s card list MIT.

### What does GLM-5.3 Flash Apex Abliterated cost per 100 messages?

$0.165 for 100 chat turns of 2,000 input and 500 output tokens each, at $0.45 input and $1.50 output per million tokens, from prepaid credit with no subscription.

### What is Apex Flash 1?

Cantina Security’s first open-weight security model, made with Yeta: GLM-5.3 Flash post-trained with reinforcement learning to read code, use tools, pursue an exploit and verify its effect on a running target. The abliterated variant changes its refusal behavior across all tasks.

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