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GLM-5.3 vs Grok 4.7 API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GLM-5.3 costs $0.000779 per request and Grok 4.7 costs $0.005, so GLM-5.3 is about 6.4× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard GLM-5.3 ranks #15 and Grok 4.7 ranks #12.

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 tokensGLM-5.3Grok 4.7
Input$0.079$2
Output$1.4$6
Cached input$0.078$0.5
ProviderZ.aixAI
Release date2026-08-182026-09-21
Overall rank#15#12
Coding rank#24#15
Reasoning rank#29—
Knowledge rank—#16
Professional work rank#14#19
Verified2026-10-192026-10-19
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Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageGLM-5.3Grok 4.7Difference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.000779$0.78 per 1,000$0.005$5 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 6.4× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.0107$10.7 per 1,000$0.21$212 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 20× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$0.11$109.5 per 1,000$1.3$1,300 per 1,000GLM-5.3 is 12× cheaper

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