Z.ai Opens GLM-5.3 API Access at .40/.40 per Million Tokens with Prompt Caching
Chinese foundation model developer Z.ai (Zhipu AI) has opened public API access to GLM-5.3, offering developers direct endpoint integration following the model's initial release. The company kept base token rates aligned with the prior generation while introducing discounted prompt caching. GLM-5.3 is priced at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens on the Z.ai platform. For workloads utilizing prompt caching, cached input tokens are billed at $0.26 per million, an 8
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