Input
$0.08
Output
$3.60
Context
1M
GLM 5.3 costs $0.08 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens. Cached input is billed at $0.076 per million, 5% less than fresh input.
Specifications
| Lab | Z.ai |
| Model id | z-ai/glm-5.3 |
| Input price | $0.08 per million tokens |
| Output price | $3.60 per million tokens |
| Cached input price | $0.076 per million tokens |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens (1M) |
| Maximum output | 943,718 tokens (944K) |
| Tool calling | yes |
| Image input | no |
| Reasoning | yes |
| Intelligence index | 31.7 |
| First listed | 18 August 2026 |
Models it replaced
The feeds list GLM 5.3 in place of z-ai/glm-4.5, z-ai/glm-4.5v, z-ai/glm-4.6, z-ai/glm-4.6v, z-ai/glm-4.7, z-ai/glm-5, z-ai/glm-5.1, z-ai/glm-5.2. Those models' own prices and limits were different; an article that names one of them describes the model it was written about.
Z.ai's other models
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Context | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GLM 5.3 Prime | $2.80 | $8.80 | 1M | 23 September 2026 |
| GLM 5.3 FlashX | $0.37 | $1.25 | 1M | 18 September 2026 |
| GLM 5.3 Flash | $0.15 | $0.50 | 1M | 26 August 2026 |
| GLM 5V Turbo | $1.20 | $4 | 198K | 1 April 2026 |
| GLM 5 Turbo | $1.20 | $4 | 198K | 15 March 2026 |
| GLM 4.5 Air | $0.13 | $0.85 | 128K | 25 July 2025 |
Where these numbers come from
Read from OpenRouter's listing of GLM 5.3 every 6 hours into the catalog Founden's builders choose their models from. Prices are OpenRouter's listed price per million tokens: for a lab's closed models that is the lab's own list price, and for an open-weight model it is the price of the host OpenRouter routes to by default, which can differ from the lab's own API and from other hosts. US dollars, before batch, volume or regional discounts. Every model.