GLM-5.3 reached Z.AI's pay-per-use API and now carries the rate they publish, instead of no price at all.
Added
- GLM-5.3 on the Z.AI pay-per-use API. It shipped to GLM Coding Plan
subscribers first; the standalone model API accepts it as of 2026-08-19, so
it now appears on that roster too and is its default. The China gateway
(z.ai-cn,z.ai-cn-api) is a separate listing that Z.AI's page does not
cover, so it keeps the GLM-5.2 roster — offering an id a gateway rejects
would be a guaranteed 4xx.
Changed
- GLM-5.3 is priced at $1.40 / $4.40 per 1M tokens. It was carried unpriced
by design: no per-token rate existed while the model was Coding-Plan only, and
borrowing GLM-5.2's would have been an invented number. Z.AI now publishes one,
and it happens to equal GLM-5.2's — a fact about today's price list, not a rule
linking the two./costand the dashboard stop showing pay-per-use GLM-5.3
traffic as free. Coding Plan usage is flat-fee and still reads "Included in
plan".