One agent session
1M input tokens and 100K output tokens, no caching.
- Input1M x $0.15 = $0.15
- Output0.1M x $0.50 = $0.05
$0.20per session
Z.ai - Open weights
GLM-5.3-Flash pricing and specs
GLM-5.3-Flash is an open-weights model from Z.ai that costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens on the first-party API, with a 1M-token context window.
Last verified from docs.z.ai. All sources
- Input / 1M
- $0.15
- Output / 1M
- $0.50
- Context
- 1M tokens
- Weights
- Open
Pricing per 1M tokens
| Item | Price / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.15 |
| Output | $0.50 |
| Cache read | $0.03 |
Note: Native multimodal: video, image, text and file input, text output. 320B total / 18B active parameters per the model page. Cached input storage is limited-time free, so no cache write price is billed. Reasoning cannot be disabled.
Specs
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Max output
- 128,000 tokens
- Release date
- Provider
- Z.ai
- API model id
glm-5.3-flash- Vercel AI Gateway id
zai/glm-5.3-flash- Weights
- Open weights
- License
- MIT
- Weights download
- huggingface.co
What GLM-5.3-Flash costs in practice
Worked from the standard list rates above, with the math shown so you can swap in your own token counts.
A chat app
10,000 requests a day at 2K input and 500 output tokens each.
- Input20M x $0.15 = $3.00
- Output5M x $0.50 = $2.50
$5.50per day
$165.00 per 30-day month
The same session at a 90% cache hit
90% of the input is read from the prompt cache. The one-time cache write premium is not included.
- Cached input0.9M x $0.03 = $0.027
- Uncached input0.1M x $0.15 = $0.015
- Output0.1M x $0.50 = $0.05
$0.092per session
Compare with
| Model | Input / 1M | Output / 1M |
|---|---|---|
| GLM-5.3-Flash (this page) | $0.15 | $0.50 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| GPT-6 LunaOpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 |
| Qwen-MT-FlashAlibaba Cloud (Qwen) | $0.16 | $0.49 |
| Hy3Tencent | $0.132 | $0.528 |
| GLM-4.7-FlashXZ.ai | $0.07 | $0.40 |
| GLM-4-32B-0414-128KZ.ai | $0.10 | $0.10 |
| GLM-4.6VZ.ai | $0.30 | $0.90 |
| GLM-4.5-AirZ.ai | $0.20 | $1.10 |
| GLM-5.3-FlashXZ.ai | $0.37 | $1.25 |
| GLM-4.5Z.ai | $0.60 | $2.20 |
Compare
Side-by-side pages with both models' prices, specs, cost examples and like-for-like benchmark rows.
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- GLM-5.3-Flash vs GPT-6 LunaSimilar price, same tier
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs DeepSeek V4.1 FlashSimilar price, same tier
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs Qwen3.8-FlashSimilar price, same tier
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-LiteSimilar price, same tier
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs MiniMax-M3Similar price, same tier
- GLM-5.3-Flash vs Mistral Small 4Similar price, same tier
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- GLM-5.3 Free and Cheap: Every Route and Price (October 2026)GLM-5.3 has no free hosted tier. Cheapest on October 9: Wafer via OpenRouter at $0.049/$3.39, Flash from $0.075/$0.25. Z.ai's promos ended October 7.
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- Colibri: Run GLM 5.2 on a 32GB Laptop With Disk StreamingA solo developer built a 1,300-line C inference engine that runs the 744B GLM 5.2 model on consumer hardware by streaming routed experts from disk.
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FAQ
How much does GLM-5.3-Flash cost per million tokens?
GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15 per 1M input tokens and $0.50 per 1M output tokens on Z.ai's first-party API, per docs.z.ai on October 17, 2026. Per 1M tokens, cache reads cost $0.03.
What is GLM-5.3-Flash's context window?
GLM-5.3-Flash has a 1,000,000-token context window and returns up to 128,000 output tokens per response.
Are GLM-5.3-Flash's weights open?
Yes. GLM-5.3-Flash's weights are published at https://huggingface.co/zai-org/GLM-5.3-Flash under the MIT.
When was GLM-5.3-Flash released?
Z.ai released GLM-5.3-Flash on August 26, 2026.
Sources
Last verified from docs.z.ai.
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