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GLM 5.3 Available in OpenRouter

Z.ai released GLM-5.3, a large-scale reasoning model for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks, now available on OpenRouter with a 1M-token context window and pricing of $1.40 per 1M input tokens and $4.40 per 1M output tokens. The model improves on GLM-5.2 in coding and token efficiency, supports reasoning efforts low, high, and max (default), and achieves 99.91% uptime with a P50 latency of 5.71 seconds and throughput of 27 tokens per second.

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GLM 5.3 Available in OpenRouter
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GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves on GLM-5.2 in coding and in the balance between performance and token efficiency.

Reasoning is always on and cannot be disabled. Reasoning efforts low

, high

, and max

are supported; max

is the default.

Modalities

In / Out Price

$1.40 / $4.40per 1M

Context

1M

Released

Aug 18, 2026

| $1.40 | $4.40 | $0.26 | 5.71s | 27 tps |

Throughput

27tok/s

P50, best across providers

Latency

5.71s

P50, best provider

99.91%

99.65%

When an error occurs in an upstream provider, we can recover by routing to another healthy provider, if your request filters allow it. You can access per-provider uptime data programmatically through the Endpoints API. Learn more about our load balancing and customization options.

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