GLM-5.3 vs Qwen3.8 Max API pricing
For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), GLM-5.3 costs $0.000779 per request and Qwen3.8 Max costs $0.00449, so GLM-5.3 is about 5.8× cheaper.
On the overall leaderboard GLM-5.3 ranks #15 and Qwen3.8 Max ranks #14.
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 tokens | GLM-5.3 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.079 | $1.79List ¥12 |
| Output | $1.4 | $5.38List ¥36 |
| Cached input | $0.078 | — |
| Provider | Z.ai | Alibaba |
| Release date | 2026-08-18 | 2026-07-19 |
| Overall rank | #15 | #14 |
| Coding rank | #24 | #14 |
| Reasoning rank | #29 | #16 |
| Knowledge rank | — | — |
| Professional work rank | #14 | #11 |
| Verified | 2026-10-19 | 2026-10-19 |
| Price source | Price source | Price source |
Cost per request by usage
Without cache discounts or batch pricing.
| Usage | GLM-5.3 | Qwen3.8 Max | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat message1K in / 500 out | $0.000779$0.78 per 1,000 | $0.00449$4.49 per 1,000 | GLM-5.3 is 5.8× cheaper |
| Long document100K in / 2K out | $0.0107$10.7 per 1,000 | $0.19$190.24 per 1,000 | GLM-5.3 is 18× cheaper |
| Agent session500K in / 50K out | $0.11$109.5 per 1,000 | $1.17$1,166.58 per 1,000 | GLM-5.3 is 11× cheaper |
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