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Claude Opus 5.5 vs GLM-5.3 API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GLM-5.3 costs $0.000779 per request and Claude Opus 5.5 costs $0.014, so GLM-5.3 is about 18× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5.5 ranks #1 and GLM-5.3 ranks #15.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Opus 5.5GLM-5.3
Input$4$0.079
Output$20$1.4
Cached input$0.2$0.078
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai
Release date2026-09-172026-08-18
Overall rank#1#15
Coding rank#1#24
Reasoning rank#3#29
Knowledge rank#5—
Professional work rank#3#14
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5.5GLM-5.3Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.014$14 per 1,000$0.000779$0.78 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 18× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.44$440 per 1,000$0.0107$10.7 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 41× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3$3,000 per 1,000$0.11$109.5 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 27× cheaper

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