Z-AI
Z.ai: GLM 5.3
z-ai/glm-5.3-20260816Hugging Face ↗
GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves...
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 usage over time
OpenRouter share of tokens, by day.
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 holds 2.06% today, up from 0.55% at the start of the visible window.
Rank history
Adoption curve vs the pantheon
Z.ai: GLM 5.3's share plotted against days since first tracked, overlaid on other current leaders on the same axis. The question every new-model page asks: is this one going to make it?
Citable stat
As of 2026-09-01, Z.ai: GLM 5.3 holds 2.1% of OpenRouter token share, up 1.52pp over 30 days. Source: Tidelines (OpenRouter).
Cost per session
Median dollars spent on one Z.ai: GLM 5.3 session, by coding agent and session length.
Token rate sets the price; session length and reasoning set the bill.
| Agent | 1 turn | 2–9 turns | 10–49 turns | 50+ turns |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kilo Code | — | $0.104 | $0.543 | $3.76 |
| Claude Code | $0.028 | $0.065 | $0.503 | $4.33 |
| Hermes Agent | $0.022 | $0.052 | $0.438 | $2.75 |
Where to run it
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 pricing by provider
Per-provider pricing, context, and uptime via OpenRouter. Sorted by output price.
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 is served by 25 tracked endpoints on OpenRouter. The cheapest output price is $3.43 per million tokens from Decart, and the most expensive is $6.60 from BaseTen · 1049k. The largest context window offered is 1311k tokens. Prices are list rates and refresh daily.
| Provider | Input $/M | Output $/M | Context | Uptime |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decart | $1.09 | $3.43 | 1049k | 99.05% |
| Reka | $1.15 | $3.50 | 262k | 99.64% |
| AkashML | $1.17 | $3.96 | 1049k | 97.21% |
| Friendli | $1.26 | $3.96 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| DeepInfra | $1.20 | $4.00 | 1049k | 98.32% |
| Io Net | $1.19 | $4.18 | 262k | 100.00% |
| Wafer | $1.19 | $4.40 | 1049k | 98.58% |
| Morph | $1.25 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.90% |
| Makora | $1.35 | $4.40 | 980k | 7.69% |
| Sail Research | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Inceptron | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.83% |
| SiliconFlow | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.24% |
| Phala | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 98.60% |
| Novita | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.97% |
| Together | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.96% |
| DigitalOcean | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Parasail | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 91.83% |
| Modal | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| GMICloud | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.68% |
| BaseTen · 1049k | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 100.00% |
| Fireworks | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.90% |
| Cloudflare | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1311k | 100.00% |
| Z.AI | $1.40 | $4.40 | 1049k | 99.96% |
| Venice | $1.75 | $5.50 | 1000k | — |
| BaseTen · 1049k | $2.10 | $6.60 | 1049k | 100.00% |