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Claude Opus 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 costs $0.0175, so GLM-5.3 is about 22× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5 ranks #7 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 5GLM-5.3
Input$5$0.079
Output$25$1.4
Cached input$0.5$0.078
ProviderAnthropicZ.ai
Release date2026-07-242026-08-18
Overall rank#7#15
Coding rank#6#24
Reasoning rank#9#29
Knowledge rank#15—
Professional work rank#6#14
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5GLM-5.3Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.0175$17.5 per 1,000$0.000779$0.78 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 22× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.55$550 per 1,000$0.0107$10.7 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 51× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3.75$3,750 per 1,000$0.11$109.5 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 34× cheaper

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