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GLM 5.3 input price cut from $1.4 to $0.3 per 1M tokens
Z.ai has dropped the input price for GLM 5.3 from $1.4 to $0.3 per 1M tokens, as listed on OpenRouter. Output pricing is unchanged at $4.4 per 1M tokens. The change makes input roughly a fifth of its previous cost while leaving generation costs the same.
Pricing1 Oct 2026Z.ai
What it means for a SaaS brand
Input-heavy work gets much cheaper on GLM 5.3, so bulk jobs like running your docs, help centre and competitor pages through a model to audit how they read to an LLM now cost far less to run at scale. Output is unchanged, so keep responses short and push the volume into what you feed in.
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