Who sells GLM-5.3-Flash cheapest?

Merge Gateway, at $0.01 in and $0.05 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.

Is GLM-5.3-Flash open weights?

Yes. Z.ai publishes the weights, so anyone may host GLM-5.3-Flash, which is why 76 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.

How much context does GLM-5.3-Flash hold?

1,000,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.

How does GLM-5.3-Flash compare with the rest of the market?

At $0.47 per million tokens, Z.ai's price is 87% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.

GLM-5.3-Flash pricing.

prices as of 16 Sept 2026 · 76 providers · 91 prices

Z.ai's GLM-5.3-Flash holds 1M tokens of context, reads images as well as text and has a reasoning mode. Open weights, so anyone may host it, which is why the prices below differ so much.

GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.07 in and $0.25 out per million tokens from Z.ai; the cheapest price we can explain is $0.10 at Merge Gateway, checked 16 Sept 2026.

tool callingreads imagesreasoningstructured outputopen weights1M contextreleased 26 Aug 2026

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Z.ai list price

$0.48/M tokens

$0.07 in · $0.25 out

read 16 Sept 2026 · 87% below the market median

Cheapest price we can explain

$0.10/M tokens

$0.01 in · $0.05 out · 80% under list

Merge Gateway

read 16 Sept 2026

What it costs for your work

how manypages a month

Z.ai list price

$0.06a month

cheapest we can explain · Merge Gateway

$0.012a month

difference

$0.048saved

A page is about 600 tokens in and 60 out, a support reply 200 in and 300 out, an email 150 in and 250 out. Nothing else is counted: no cache discount, no batch rate, no free tier.

Every provider selling GLM-5.3-Flash

Four groups, decided by the price and by what the provider publishes about it. Prices are per million tokens, and the share is that row against Z.ai's price.

The maker's list price

1 price

What the lab that trained the model charges on its own API.

Z.ai
The price Z.ai charges for the model it trained. Every row below is measured against it.
Z.ai ↗
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price

Cheaper, and we know why

3 prices

Below list, with a published reason: hosting the open weights, a regional price list, credits, a stated discount.

Merge Gateway
Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
$0.01 / $0.05in / out per M
0.20×of list price
Crof
7% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
Crof ↗
$0.07 / $0.22in / out per M
0.91×of list price
Crof
7% under the list price, an ordinary reseller margin.
Q8_0 precisionCrof ↗
$0.07 / $0.22in / out per M
0.91×of list price

Same price as the maker

77 prices

The same price the maker charges, sold by someone else.

NanoGPT
The same price Z.ai charges.
1M context hereNanoGPT ↗
$0.07 / $0.01in / out per M
0.51×of list price
TokenGo
The same price Z.ai charges.
$0.07 / $0.03in / out per M
0.53×of list price
TrustedRouter
The same price Z.ai charges.
1M context hereTrustedRouter ↗
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
OrcaRouter
The same price Z.ai charges.
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Zhipu AI (China)
The same price Z.ai charges.
Zhipu AI (China) ↗
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Empirio Labs
The same price Z.ai charges.
Empirio Labs ↗
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
302.AI
The same price Z.ai charges.
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
Nous Portal
The same price Z.ai charges.
1.3M context hereNous Portal ↗
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
FastRouter
The same price Z.ai charges.
1.3M context hereFastRouter ↗
$0.07 / $0.25in / out per M
1.00×of list price
LLM Gateway
17% above Z.ai's price.
1M context hereLLM Gateway ↗
$0.09 / $0.25in / out per M
1.08×of list price
OpenRouter
20% above Z.ai's price.
1.3M context hereOpenRouter ↗
$0.09 / $0.30in / out per M
1.20×of list price
Relace
20% above Z.ai's price.
1M context here
$0.09 / $0.30in / out per M
1.20×of list price
Morph
33% above Z.ai's price.
1M context herefp8 precision
$0.10 / $0.35in / out per M
1.37×of list price
Wafer
33% above Z.ai's price.
1M context here
$0.10 / $0.35in / out per M
1.37×of list price
StreamLake
40% above Z.ai's price.
1M context herefp8 precision
$0.10 / $0.35in / out per M
1.40×of list price
GMI Cloud
40% above Z.ai's price.
1M context herefp8 precisionGMI Cloud ↗
$0.10 / $0.35in / out per M
1.40×of list price
Cortecs
39% above Z.ai's price.Routes only to EU-hosted providers, prices in euros, and adds a flat 5% fee.
1M context hereCortecs ↗
$0.10 / $0.36in / out per M
1.42×of list price
RunInfra
33% above Z.ai's price.
1M context here
$0.10 / $0.40in / out per M
1.47×of list price
AIHubMix
50% above Z.ai's price.
$0.11 / $0.39in / out per M
1.54×of list price
Vancine
60% above Z.ai's price.
$0.12 / $0.40in / out per M
1.60×of list price
Bothub
60% above Z.ai's price.
$0.12 / $0.44in / out per M
1.68×of list price
Melious
55% above Z.ai's price.
$0.12 / $0.46in / out per M
1.71×of list price
Novita
76% above Z.ai's price.
1M context herefp8 precisionNovita ↗
$0.13 / $0.44in / out per M
1.76×of list price
LLMTR
80% above Z.ai's price.
LLMTR ↗
$0.14 / $0.45in / out per M
1.80×of list price
GreenPT
70% above Z.ai's price.
$0.13 / $0.51in / out per M
1.88×of list price

showing the 25 cheapest of 77 · every row in the open dataset

Cheaper, and nobody says why

5 prices · never ranked

Below list on a closed model with nothing to account for it. Shown, never ranked, never a pick.

FriendliAI
We could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
1M context hereFriendliAI ↗
$0.15 / $0.50in / out per M
2.00×of list price
Featherless
We could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
262k context hereFeatherless ↗
$0.15 / $0.50in / out per M
2.00×of list price
Kenari
We could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
Kenari ↗
$0.20 / $0.60in / out per M
2.53×of list price
Berget AI
We could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
524k context hereBerget AI ↗
$0.25 / $0.50in / out per M
2.63×of list price
Tinfoil
We could not read this provider's prices reliably, so the row is listed but never ranked.
1M context hereTinfoil ↗
$0.40 / $1.25in / out per M
5.16×of list price

Given away with limits

5 free tiers · never ranked

These providers give GLM-5.3-Flash away inside a quota of their own. A limit is not a price, so none of them counts as cheapest here or anywhere else on the site.

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Frequently asked

Who sells GLM-5.3-Flash cheapest?: Merge Gateway, at $0.01 in and $0.05 out per million tokens, read on 16 Sept 2026. Hosts the open weights on its own servers, so the price is its own, not a resale. Precision not disclosed.
Is GLM-5.3-Flash open weights?: Yes. Z.ai publishes the weights, so anyone may host GLM-5.3-Flash, which is why 76 providers sell it and why their prices differ so much.
How much context does GLM-5.3-Flash hold?: 1,000,000 tokens in one call, which is about 1M, and it can call your own functions.
How does GLM-5.3-Flash compare with the rest of the market?: At $0.47 per million tokens, Z.ai's price is 87% below the $3.55 median across the 337 text models we track.