---
title: "OpenRouter z-ai/glm-5.3 price change: 2026-10-15 | Harbyn"
description: "OpenRouter z-ai/glm-5.3 price change, announced Oct 15, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-15-z-ai-glm-5-3-price-change"
last-updated: 2026-10-15
---

# OpenRouter z-ai/glm-5.3 price change

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-15-z-ai-glm-5-3-price-change>.

Pricing - OpenRouter. low severity. In effect.

OpenRouter list price for z-ai/glm-5.3 changed: input 1.4 to 0.079 USD per 1M tokens; output 4.4 to 4.8 USD per 1M tokens. The new price has held for at least 72 hours.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Pricing |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 15, 2026 (undated by the vendor; the day it first appeared) |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Model IDs | `z-ai/glm-5.3` |
| Review | Automated, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Price change

| Item | Unit | Before | After |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| z-ai/glm-5.3 | per 1M input tokens | USD 1.4 | USD 0.079 |
| z-ai/glm-5.3 | per 1M output tokens | USD 4.4 | USD 4.8 |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

The scanner reads your repository on your machine and reports every file and line that uses the identifiers above. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-10-15 04:48 UTC, sha256 `a2368162f0254da8ff105492e86346998113832a00670f816684921247332fce`)
- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-09-26 05:06 UTC, sha256 `4ff7e66804a2645657423bf190f64ea555454e14783b10fedcc7debbd34dda00`)

## Related changes

### More from OpenRouter

- [anthropic/claude-sonnet-4 expires 2026-10-15](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-15-unbiased-pareto-26-10-preview-expires-2026-10-15.md) (Retirement, effective Oct 15, 2026)
- [deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-14-deepseek-deepseek-v4-flash-0731-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 14, 2026)
- [unbiased/pareto-26.10-preview expires 2026-10-15](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-14-unbiased-pareto-26-10-preview-expires-2026-10-15.md) (Retirement, effective Oct 15, 2026)
- [meta-llama/llama-4-scout price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-16-meta-llama-llama-4-scout-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 16, 2026)

### Changes at other vendors

- [Together AI: lower serverless pricing for Qwen3.7-Max and Qwen3.8-Flash](https://harbyn.com/changes/together/2026-09-22-qwen-serverless-price-cut.md) (effective Sep 22, 2026)

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