Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash by Z Ai — $0.046 input / $0.070 output per 1M tokens via OpenRouter. Context: 1.0M tokens. Pricing last updated Oct 29, 2026.
| Usage | Daily | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Chatbot (100/day) | $0.011 | $0.33 |
| Small app (1K/day) | $0.081 | $2.42 |
| Mid-scale (10K/day) | $1.26 | $37.94 |
| Large scale (100K/day) | $29.86 | $895.80 |
z-ai/glm-5.3-flashZ.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash is an LLM developed by Z Ai. Input costs $0.046 per million tokens and output costs $0.070 per million tokens via OpenRouter. It supports a context window of 1.0M tokens.
Via the OpenRouter API:
A token is roughly 0.75 words. For context: a typical user message of 100 words is approximately 133 tokens; a 500-word system prompt is about 650 tokens.
For a typical chatbot application (1,000 requests/day, 1,000 prompt tokens and 500 output tokens per request):
OpenRouter provides a unified API for 200+ LLMs including Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash. You can use it with any OpenAI-compatible SDK by setting the base URL to https://openrouter.ai/api/v1 and using your OpenRouter API key. The model ID is z-ai/glm-5.3-flash.
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z-ai/glm-5.3-flash. OpenRouter provides a unified API compatible with OpenAI's SDK format.