GLM-5.3-Prime is the high-speed variant of Z.ai's GLM-5.3, inheriting its full capabilities while delivering 1.5–2× the output throughput through inference acceleration. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window and up to 128K output tokens, and targets coding and agentic workloads, including long-horizon multi-turn agent orchestration, real-time conversation, and streaming code generation.
Reasoning is always on and cannot be disabled. Reasoning efforts low, high, and max are supported; max is the default.
Modalities
In / Out Price
$2.80 / $8.80per 1M
Context
1.0M
Released
Sep 23, 2026
This model is hosted by one provider. OpenRouter forwards every request to it directly — no routing decisions to make.
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Throughput is how fast the model writes (tokens per second — higher is better). Latency is total round-trip time (lower is better). TTFT is time-to-first-token — how long before you see anything appear (lower is better).
Uptime is the percentage of the past 3 days that at least one provider was responding to requests. Availability is the percentage of time that inference was successfully served. OpenRouter continuously monitors and uses the next-best provider when one returns an error.
Public apps that send the most traffic to this model. Good signal for what real production workloads look like — and a hint at which use cases this model is best suited for.
Token volume and request traffic to this model over time.
Drop-in code to call this model. OpenRouter's API is OpenAI-compatible — most SDKs work by just swapping the base URL. The only thing that changes between models is the model slug below.
| $2.80 | $8.80 | $0.56 | 1.24s | 76 tps |
Throughput
76tok/s
P50, best across providers
Latency
1.24s
P50, best provider
100.00%
98.85%
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.
GLM-5.3-Prime is the high-speed variant of Z.ai's GLM-5.3, inheriting its full capabilities while delivering 1.5–2× the output throughput through inference acceleration. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window and up to 128K output tokens, and targets coding and agentic workloads, including long-horizon multi-turn agent orchestration, real-time conversation, and...
GLM 5.3 Prime costs $2.80/M input tokens and $8.80/M output tokens, with separate rates for Cache Read at $0.56/M tokens.
GLM 5.3 Prime has a 1,000,000 token context window. It supports up to 131,072 completion tokens.
Yes. GLM 5.3 Prime accepts tools and tool_choice for function calling. It supports response_format for JSON output, without JSON-schema enforcement.
GLM 5.3 FlashX, GLM 5.3 Flash, GLM 5.3 and 12 more are other text models from Z.ai.
GLM 5.3 Prime was released on September 23, 2026.