API PRICES
Z.ai · glm-5.3
Provider prices, cheapest first
Price comparison
- Official (cash)
- Input 8 / output 28 CNY/million tokens智谱 ·
- Lowest inference provider (cash)
- Input 0.079 / output 4.8 USD/million tokensOpenRouter · Aggregator ·
- Lowest relay (credit)
- 6.5 USD credit/million total tokensapi.mooko.ai "GLM专线" ·
Official and inference-provider prices are cash; relay prices are site credit (USD credit or CNY credit), a different unit, compared separately. Relay prices are per million total tokens at 75% input and 25% output.
Z.ai · glm-5.3 official price: input 8, output 28 CNY per million tokens (智谱, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.079, output 4.8 USD per million tokens. Cheapest relay: api.mooko.ai, group "GLM dedicated line [machine translation] (on site: GLM专线)" 6.5 USD_CREDIT per million total tokens (credit price, not cash, observed 2026-10-16). 301 sites have comparable prices; 523 sites list this model.Relay blended price uses 75% input and 25% output.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 13 · median 13 · highest 13 · 1 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 1.2593 · median 2.15 · highest 2.15 · 3 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 13 · median 13 · highest 13 · 1 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Relay USD credit prices · Lowest 6.5 · median 6.5 · highest 6.5 · 1 quotes USD / per million tokens, site credit
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 智谱 | 8 | 28 | 2 | — | CNY / 1M tokens | Official source |
Official prices are the vendor's cash prices. Inference providers also list cash prices and can be compared directly. Relays list prices in site credit; what you actually pay depends on each site's top-up rate, so they cannot be compared with official prices directly.
Inference providers
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source | vs official |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.079 | 4.8 | 0.078 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| Novita AI | 1.4 | 4.4 | 0.26 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| Together AI | 1.4 | 4.4 | 0.26 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| SiliconFlow | 8 | 28 | 2 | — | CNY / 1M tokens | Official source | Input 0% · Output 0% |
Unit: USD credits per 1M tokens. These are site-credit prices; actual cost depends on each site’s top-up rate.
Price range: lowest 6.5 · median 6.5 · highest 6.5 (1 quotes, USD credits per million total tokens)
Relays
Prices below are in site credit, not cash.
| # | Provider | Plan / conditions | Input ↑USD credits / 1M | Output USD credits / 1M | Cache readUSD credits / 1M | BlendedUSD credits / 1M | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recent price | |||||||
| 01 | api.mooko.aiAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans | GLM dedicated line [machine translation]Group on site: GLM专线 GLM official direct connection dedicated line [machine translation]Original: GLM官方直连专线 Operator pending verification | 4 | 14 | 1 | 6.5Median price ÷ this price: 1× | Full prices and sources |
Special groups · 11 rows · not ranked
These plans are marked as test, internal, disabled, gated by top-up or membership, or have a near-zero ratio. They may not be purchasable or stable, so they are listed separately and left out of the ranking and statistics.
- near-zero-ratio group: 6 rows
- test or debug group: 3 rows
- Free declaration, listed separately: 2 rows
- zero-ratio group: 2 rows
- api.wapq.cn · Perk [machine translation]Group on site: 福利 · glm-5.3 · Input 0 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- wqdsjhaoai.site · Free 1 yi (100 million) token daily, shared site-wide [machine translation]Group on site: 每日免费1亿token，全站共享 · glm-5.3 · Input 0 / Output 0 USD credits / 1M
- moyuu.cc · 🥚 · glm-5.3 · Input 0.04 / Output 0.14 USD credits / 1M
- liangxinapi.top · free · glm-5.3 · Input 0.1 / Output 0.35 USD credits / 1M
- api.codexplus.shop · Overseas channel Chinese models GPT0.03 [machine translation]Group on site: 海外渠道国模GPT0.03 · glm-5.3 · Input 0.24 / Output 0.84 USD credits / 1M
- codexplus.shop · Overseas channel Chinese models GPT0.03 [machine translation]Group on site: 海外渠道国模GPT0.03 · glm-5.3 · Input 0.24 / Output 0.84 USD credits / 1M
- wkapi.pro · Chinese perk models [machine translation]Group on site: 国产福利模型 · glm-5.3:free · Input 0.24 / Output 0.84 USD credits / 1M
- wkapi.vip · Chinese perk models [machine translation]Group on site: 国产福利模型 · glm-5.3:free · Input 0.24 / Output 0.84 USD credits / 1M
- moyuu.cc · 🥚 test [machine translation]Group on site: 🥚测 · glm-5.3 · Input 0.4 / Output 1.4 USD credits / 1M
- realmrouter.cn · Chinese models - test [machine translation]Group on site: 国模-test · glm-5.3 · Input 0.56 / Output 1.76 USD credits / 1M
How this ranking works
All per-token prices: 97,455 prices from 871 sites (about 765 companies). 89,631 are ranked, from 861 sites (about 755 companies); 7,824 more are listed separately and not ranked. Prices collected up to 2026-10-17.
This model has 1004 recorded prices; 497 can be compared directly (484 ranked, 13 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 238, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 133, billed per request or another unit 54, display unit not confirmed 34, ratio looks unset 26, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 9
1 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. Minimum and median only count recent paid prices; older prices stay in the table. 0 zero-valued pairs are separately unverified, without proof of free eligibility. Timing does not verify payment, upstream identity or quality.
Prices are converted to site credits using each site’s published ratio. What you actually pay depends on its top-up rate. Input, output and cache prices in each row come from the same plan. Several sites run by the same company take one place in the ranking: its cheapest plan, with the other sites listed under it. We judge “same company” by identical prices, status pages or homepage code; this is not a legal finding. To see every site’s prices, choose “All plans” or filter by provider.
“Self-declared unofficial channel” means the plan name itself says “reverse-engineered” or similar. We have not verified their source or quality. Minimum and median only count regular plans.
Sources not accepted this cycle and reasons
FAQ
Which API is cheapest for Z.ai · glm-5.3?
api.mooko.ai, group "GLM专线 (GLM dedicated line)", 6.5 USD credit per million total tokens, observed 2026-10-16. 301 sites have comparable prices.
What is the official price for Z.ai · glm-5.3?
Input 8, output 28 CNY per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: OpenRouter, input 0.079, output 4.8 USD per million tokens.
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