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Gemini 4 Argon vs GLM-5.3 API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GLM-5.3 costs $0.000779 per request and Gemini 4 Argon costs $0.007, so GLM-5.3 is about 9× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Gemini 4 Argon ranks #3 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.

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Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensGemini 4 ArgonGLM-5.3
Input$2$0.079
Output$10$1.4
Cached input$0.1$0.078
ProviderGoogleZ.ai
Release date2026-09-302026-08-18
Overall rank#3#15
Coding rank#13#24
Reasoning rank—#29
Knowledge rank#1—
Professional work rank#1#14
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageGemini 4 ArgonGLM-5.3Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.007$7 per 1,000$0.000779$0.78 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 9× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.22$220 per 1,000$0.0107$10.7 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 21× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$1.5$1,500 per 1,000$0.11$109.5 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 14× cheaper

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