GLM 5.3 (Modal) API

Modal · serves glm-5.3

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.40
Output / 1M$4.40
Blended / 1M$5.8
Cached input / 1M$0.26
Context window1,310,720 tokens
Max output943,718 tokens
LicenseOpen weights · MIT permissive
Knowledge cutoffJanuary 2026 · source
Intelligence index59.5 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · source

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Price verified 2026-09-05 (0 days ago) · sourcecorroborated

Sources

SourceInput / 1MOutput / 1MVerified
OpenRouter$1.40$4.402026-09-05
LiteLLM$1.40$4.402026-09-03
models.dev$1.40$4.402026-09-04

Two independent sources agree within 20%.

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Call it

Served via OpenRouter, pinned to Modal — the provider these prices are resolved from. Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY. Provider page.

curl https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENROUTER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "z-ai/glm-5.3",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    "provider": {"only": ["Modal"], "allow_fallbacks": false}
  }'
from openai import OpenAI  # pip install openai

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://openrouter.ai/api/v1",
    api_key="...",  # OPENROUTER_API_KEY
)
resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="z-ai/glm-5.3",
    messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}],
    extra_body={"provider": {"only": ["Modal"], "allow_fallbacks": false}},
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

Price unchanged since 2026-09-03 — 1 point on record.

Use this data

Raw JSON for this page: glm-5.3.json. Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to apipriceindex.com.