API PRICES
Z.ai · glm-5.3-flash
Provider prices, cheapest first
Price comparison
- Official (cash)
- Input 0.8 / output 2.8 CNY/million tokens智谱 ·
- Lowest inference provider (cash)
- Input 0.15 / output 0.5 USD/million tokensNovita AI ·
- Lowest relay (credit)
- Not listed
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-flash official price: input 0.8, output 2.8 CNY per million tokens (智谱, observed 2026-10-17). Cheapest inference provider: Novita AI, input 0.15, output 0.5 USD per million tokens. 261 sites have comparable prices; 471 sites list this model.
Price ranges per million tokens
Official cash prices · Lowest 1.3 · median 1.3 · highest 1.3 · 1 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 0.2375 · median 0.2375 · highest 0.2375 · 3 quotes USD / per million tokens
Inference provider cash prices · Lowest 1.3 · median 1.3 · highest 1.3 · 1 quotes CNY / per million tokens
Official price
| Provider | Input | Output | Cache read | Cache write | Unit | Observed | Conditions and source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 智谱 | 0.8 | 2.8 | 0.23 | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Novita AI | 0.15 | 0.5 | 0.03 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| OpenRouter · Aggregator | 0.15 | 0.5 | 0.03 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| Together AI | 0.15 | 0.5 | 0.03 | — | USD / 1M tokens | Official source | ||
| SiliconFlow | 0.8 | 2.8 | 0.23 | — | 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.
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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 |
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| Special groups · not ranked · Flagged · not ranked · Recent price · Includes prices of 0 (free status unconfirmed) | |||||||
| — · Price of 0 · free status unconfirmed | memeapi.topAsk or discussCollected: Collected this cycle View 1 plans 1 more site of the same companyBasis: identical quotes, same status-page name, logo or server address. Counted as one company in the ranking; this is not a legal finding. | Egg [machine translation]Group on site: 鸡蛋 倍率为 0 Eggs donated by a mysterious kind person, first come first served [machine translation]Original: 神秘好心人捐赠的鸡蛋，先到先得 Note: far from other providers’ prices, unrecognized flag GROUP_FLAGGED. This price is not ranked or counted. Group notes: Free declaration, listed separately, zero-ratio group Operator pending verification | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Full prices and sources |
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 933 recorded prices; 452 can be compared directly (438 ranked, 14 listed separately). Not comparable yet: price not parsed yet 210, tiered by rules (see Tiered prices) 126, ratio looks unset 56, billed per request or another unit 44, display unit not confirmed 30, scope of the official doc price not confirmed 8
1 recent · 0 stale (older than 10 days, or not updated by this refresh) · 0 unverified timestamps. No recent prices to summarize in this group. 1 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.
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FAQ
Which API is cheapest for Z.ai · glm-5.3-flash?
No valid quotes within 10 days. Older quotes are listed as reference prices.
What is the official price for Z.ai · glm-5.3-flash?
Input 0.8, output 2.8 CNY per million tokens, checked 2026-10-17. Lowest inference provider: Novita AI, input 0.15, output 0.5 USD per million tokens.
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