GLM-5.3
Z.ai's mid-tier model: $1.4 per million input tokens and $4.4 per million output tokens, with a 1M-token context window.
Input / 1M tokens$1.4
Cached input / 1M$0.26
Output / 1M tokens$4.4
Example task$1.84$0.93 with 80% cached
| Maker | Z.ai · official pricing |
|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens · up to 128K output |
| Capabilities | tool calling · reasoning · |
Prices from LiteLLM's open price list, updated Oct 9, 2026. "Example task": 1M input + 100K output tokens. Check the provider's page before you budget.
Agents that take any provider
These work with OpenRouter or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so they can usually run GLM-5.3 too.
OpenAI Codex LangChain Pi OpenCode GitHub Copilot LangGraph AI SDK Zed Mastra Deep Agents CopilotKit Cloudflare Agents SDK Oh My Pi DSPy OpenAI Agents SDK Junie Agno Cline CrewAI mini-SWE-agent OpenHands eve LlamaIndex Agent Development Kit (ADK)
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