Z.ai · 2026-08-18
GLM 5.3 pricing
GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks.
Prices from OpenRouter’s models API, updated October 29, 2026
What GLM 5.3 costs a month
| Workload | Standard | Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out | $19.95 | $44.25 |
| Daily summaries: 10,000 a day, 3,000 tokens in, 300 out | $189 | $585 |
| Coding agent: 400 calls a day, 60,000 tokens in (80% cached), 2,000 out | $83.35 | $152 |
30 days. Cached input billed at the cache-read price. Use your own numbers.
Cheaper models with a similar context window
| Model | Provider | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ling 3.0 Flash | inclusionai | $0.021 | $0.063 | $0.0042 | 262K | $1.70 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | Z.ai | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| Qwen3.7 Flash | Alibaba Qwen | $0.03 | $0.13 | $0.006 | 1M | $2.91 |
| Mercury 2.5 | inception | $0.04 | $0.15 | $0.004 | 260K | $3.60 |
| Laguna XS 2.1 free variant | poolside | $0.06 | $0.12 | $0.03 | 262K | $4.14 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
Cheaper isn’t automatically as good. Glow’s GlowBench scores models on your kind of task before suggesting a swap.
Other GLM models
| Model | Input /1M | Output /1M | Cache read /1M | Context | Chatbot, per month* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Prime | $2.80 | $8.80 | $0.56 | 1M | $232 |
| GLM 5.3 FlashX | $0.37 | $1.25 | $0.09 | 1.05M | $31.65 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | $0.046 | $0.074 | $0.03 | 1.05M | $2.95 |
| GLM 5.2 | $0.006 | $7 | $0.005 | 1.05M | $84.27 |
| GLM 5.1 | $1.40 | $4.40 | $0.26 | 205K | $116 |
| GLM 5V Turbo | $1.20 | $4 | $0.24 | 203K | $102 |
* Support chatbot: 1,000 chats a day, 1,500 tokens in, 400 out, 30 days, no caching. Prices in US dollars per 1M tokens.
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GLM 5.3: questions
How much does GLM 5.3 cost?
$0.07 per 1M input tokens and $1.40 per 1M output tokens, with cached input at $0.069, or $0.45 / $2 through the batch API. A 1,000-token prompt with a 500-token answer costs about $0.0008.
What is GLM 5.3’s context window?
1,048,576 tokens, with up to 943,718 output tokens per response.
Is there a cheaper alternative to GLM 5.3?
Ling 3.0 Flash costs $0.021 in and $0.063 out per 1M tokens with a similar context window. Whether it matches GLM 5.3’s quality depends on the task: test it on your own prompts (Glow’s GlowBench does this per task).
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