Pricing°
GLM 5.3 input price cut to $0.05, output raised to $7 per 1M
Z.ai has repriced GLM 5.3 on OpenRouter. Input tokens fall from $1.4 to $0.05 per 1M, while output tokens rise from $4.4 to $7 per 1M. The cost balance has shifted sharply from reading to generating.
Pricing5 Oct 2026Z.ai
What it means for a SaaS brand
Cheap input means tools built on GLM 5.3 can afford to pull in far more source material per answer, so long, well-structured pages are less likely to be truncated or skipped. Expensive output means answers get shorter, so the sentence that defines your product needs to be quotable on its own rather than buried in supporting detail.
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