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GLM-5.3-Prime

by Alibaba

Current new · 29d mid tier open weights mid tier

Today's price · per 1M tokens

Input

$2.80

per 1M tokens

Output

$8.80

per 1M tokens

Blended

$4.30

blended $/1M — 3:1 weighted input:output

How this price is scoped: Alibaba Model Studio's own rate card, read 2026-10-22, International table: 'glm-5.3-prime International Non-Thinking and Thinking modes flat-rate pricing $2.800 $8.800 None'. One flat rate for both modes; the last cell is the free quota (none). The card prints no cache-hit rate for this SKU, so we carry none.

Source: official Alibaba pricing · read MODELPRICEWATCH.COM · 2026-10-22

Price receipt

We read Alibaba's own pricing page on and found glm-5.3-prime listed with a price on the same row — that read is where the number above comes from, recorded as a new model. We keep the page text we read; its content hash is d87d99fb7d.

Overview

Z.AI's GLM-5.3 sold through Alibaba Model Studio under the glm-5.3-prime model ID. One flat rate of $2.80/$8.80 per 1M tokens for both thinking and non-thinking modes. Alibaba Cloud is the only seller of this SKU.

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Capabilities

struck through = not supported
Input 1/4
Text ✓ Image Audio Video
Output
Text ✓
Features 2/9
Prompt caching Reasoning Coding Fast inference Long context ✓ Open weights ✓ Multimodal Web search Realtime

Specifications

Provider
Alibaba
Context window
1M tokens
Modality
text
Parameters
Proprietary
Open source
Yes — open weights available
Released
Status
Current
Last updated
Tags
open-weightsmid-tier

Availability verified: — listed on Alibaba's own page