---
title: "OpenRouter z-ai/glm-5.3 price change: 2026-10-25 | Harbyn"
description: "OpenRouter z-ai/glm-5.3 price change, announced Oct 25, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-25-z-ai-glm-5-3-price-change"
last-updated: 2026-10-25
---

# OpenRouter z-ai/glm-5.3 price change

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-25-z-ai-glm-5-3-price-change>.

Pricing - OpenRouter. low severity. In effect.

OpenRouter list price for z-ai/glm-5.3 changed: output 4.8 to 1.4 USD per 1M tokens.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [OpenRouter](https://harbyn.com/vendors/openrouter.md) |
| Product | models |
| Kind | Pricing |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Oct 25, 2026 (undated by the vendor; the day it first appeared) |
| Added to Harbyn | Oct 25, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Model IDs | `z-ai/glm-5.3` |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Price change

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

## 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 2026-10-25 11:20 UTC, sha256 `bd797b6112fad65baa4811dd5555c9ce27b7068085d9af9d05ed3af045cd40a1`)
- <https://openrouter.ai/api/v1/models> (spec, fetched 2026-10-11 22:03 UTC, sha256 `da6a6d0e2f4430098b7b348f09c4ad437ce6c18ca8a8d63da66918f863b70903`)

## Related changes

### More from OpenRouter

- [z-ai/glm-4.5v expires December 31, 2026](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-25-dots-studio-dots-3-note-preview-free-expires-2026-12-31.md) (Retirement, effective Dec 31, 2026)
- [qwen/qwen3.5-27b price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-25-qwen-qwen3-5-27b-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 25, 2026)
- [z-ai/glm-4.6 price change](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-25-z-ai-glm-4-6-price-change.md) (Pricing, announced Oct 25, 2026)
- [arcee-ai/trinity-large-thinking expire 2026-10-26](https://harbyn.com/changes/openrouter/2026-10-23-arcee-ai-trinity-large-thinking-expires-2026-10-26.md) (Retirement, effective Oct 26, 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)

[All upcoming deadlines](https://harbyn.com/deadlines.md)