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Cheapest GLM 5.3 API providers

GLM 5.3 is an open-weight model from Z.ai. On OpenRouter, 47 listings from 38 providers sell it, and the blended price runs from $0.402 to $4.30 per million tokens.

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ernd partners with Wafer. Prices are from OpenRouter's public listings.

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Cheapest and fastest

Cheapest
Wafer (US)ernd partner
$0.402 per 1M tokens blended
$0.0699 input, $1.40 output
Fastest
Baseten (fp8, US, Fast)
179 tokens per second
$3.23 blended, 0.44 s to first token

Every provider

Provider Input /1M Output /1M Blended 3:1 Cache read /1M Context Quantization Latency Throughput With ernd card
Wafer (US) ernd partner $0.0699 $1.40 $0.402 $0.0689 1.05M FP4 0.42 s 89 tok/s $0.362after 10% cash back
Wafer ernd partner $0.179 $1.40 $0.484 $0.178 1.05M FP4 0.35 s 93 tok/s $0.436after 10% cash back
Reka AI $0.14 $2.10 $0.63 $0.105 1.05M Not listed 0.87 s 43 tok/s –
Decart $0.56 $1.78 $0.865 $0.10 1.05M FP4 0.84 s 92 tok/s –
DekaLLM $0.18 $2.95 $0.873 $0.15 1.05M Not listed 1.26 s 49 tok/s –
inference.net $0.08 $3.60 $0.96 $0.076 1.05M FP4 0.50 s 98 tok/s –
inference.net (US) $0.08 $3.60 $0.96 $0.076 1.05M FP4 0.54 s 94 tok/s –
NovitaAI $0.63 $1.98 $0.968 $0.117 1.05M FP8 1.97 s 53 tok/s –
Makora $0.30 $3.00 $0.975 $0.125 1.05M FP4 0.77 s 63 tok/s –
DeepInfra $0.563 $2.50 $1.05 $0.125 1.05M FP4 1.45 s 46 tok/s –
Cloudflare $0.70 $2.20 $1.07 $0.13 1.05M Not listed 1.81 s 65 tok/s –
GMICloud $0.70 $2.20 $1.07 $0.13 1.05M FP8 2.67 s 50 tok/s –
SiliconFlow $0.70 $2.20 $1.07 $0.13 1.05M FP8 2.04 s 59 tok/s –
Tenstorrent $0.60 $2.50 $1.07 $0.10 1.04M FP8 0.77 s 75 tok/s –
Prime Intellect $0.50 $3.08 $1.15 $0.093 1.05M Not listed 0.85 s 83 tok/s –
Relace $0.0703 $4.38 $1.15 $0.0703 1.05M FP4 1.03 s 76 tok/s –
AkashML $0.19 $4.40 $1.24 $0.19 1.05M FP4 1.20 s 87 tok/s –
Phala $0.84 $2.64 $1.29 $0.156 1.05M Not listed 3.24 s 38 tok/s –
Morph $0.74 $3.00 $1.30 $0.25 1.05M FP8 1.55 s 32 tok/s –
CoreWeave $0.75 $3.00 $1.31 $0.19 1.05M NVFP4 0.59 s 92 tok/s –
Sail Research (US) $0.75 $3.00 $1.31 $0.12 1.05M FP8 0.98 s 72 tok/s –
DigitalOcean $0.91 $2.86 $1.40 $0.169 1.05M Not listed 0.55 s 88 tok/s –
Fireworks Spot $0.98 $3.08 $1.50 $0.182 1.05M Not listed 0.65 s 88 tok/s –
Alibaba Cloud Int. $1.19 $3.74 $1.83 $0.238 1M Not listed 1.90 s 52 tok/s –
Sail Research $1.05 $4.20 $1.84 $0.168 1.05M FP8 0.78 s 73 tok/s –
Friendli $1.26 $3.96 $1.94 $0.234 1.05M Not listed 0.36 s 83 tok/s –
Inceptron $1.00 $4.90 $1.98 $0.14 1.05M FP4 0.73 s 100 tok/s –
Baidu Qianfan $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M FP8 1.06 s 61 tok/s –
AtlasCloud $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M FP8 2.83 s 40 tok/s –
Baseten (fp4, US) $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.14 1.05M FP4 2.35 s 58 tok/s –
Baseten (fp4) $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.14 1.05M FP4 2.74 s 48 tok/s –
Crusoe $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M FP4 0.47 s 118 tok/s –
Fireworks $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M Not listed 1.31 s 77 tok/s –
Mistral (ZDR) $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.14 1.05M NVFP4 0.94 s 102 tok/s –
Modal $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M Not listed 0.34 s 112 tok/s –
Nebius Token Factory $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M FP4 0.69 s 87 tok/s –
Parasail $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M FP8 0.66 s 99 tok/s –
Together $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M Not listed 0.55 s 101 tok/s –
Venice $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1M Not listed 1.03 s 72 tok/s –
Z.ai $1.40 $4.40 $2.15 $0.26 1.05M FP8 1.71 s 53 tok/s –
Mistral (EU) $1.54 $4.84 $2.37 $0.154 1.05M NVFP4 0.91 s 132 tok/s –
Amazon Bedrock (US-EAST-1) $1.68 $5.28 $2.58 $0.312 1.05M Not listed 1.48 s 110 tok/s –
Baseten (fp8, Fast) $2.10 $6.60 $3.23 $0.21 1.05M FP8 0.43 s 176 tok/s –
Baseten (fp8, US, Fast) $2.10 $6.60 $3.23 $0.21 1.05M FP8 0.44 s 179 tok/s –
Fireworks (Fast) Down when checked $2.10 $6.60 $3.23 $0.39 1.05M Not listed 1.03 s 122 tok/s –
Parasail (Fast) $2.10 $6.60 $3.23 $0.26 1.05M FP8 0.86 s 72 tok/s –
Alibaba Cloud Int. (Prime) $2.80 $8.80 $4.30 $0.56 1M Not listed 0.89 s 108 tok/s –
47 listings for GLM 5.3 on OpenRouter, cheapest blended price first. Checked .

Blended is three parts input price to one part output, per million tokens. Latency is time to first token and throughput is output tokens per second, both averaged from OpenRouter's daily figures for the last 7 days. Cheapest and fastest only count listings that were up when checked.

Wafer is an ernd partner: 10% back on Wafer inference with the ernd card. With ernd card is the blended price less 10% cash back on Wafer charges. It comes back on the card bill and doesn't change Wafer's list price. It applies when you pay Wafer directly, not through OpenRouter credits.

Questions

What is the cheapest GLM 5.3 API provider?

Wafer (US), at $0.402 per million tokens blended ($0.0699 input, $1.40 output), in OpenRouter's listings on November 7, 2026.

How much does GLM 5.3 cost per million tokens?

Input runs from $0.0699 to $2.80 per million tokens across 47 listings, and output from $1.40 to $8.80. The middle listing comes to $1.83 blended.

Which GLM 5.3 provider is fastest?

Baseten (fp8, US, Fast) had the most throughput over the last 7 days, about 179 tokens per second. Modal was quickest to the first token at 0.34 s.

How do I pay for GLM 5.3 inference?

Buy OpenRouter credits and it sends each request to one of these providers, or open an account with a provider and pay it directly. The ernd card is a credit card for US companies. It earns 4% back on AI vendor spend and 1.5% back on everything else. Wafer charges on the card earn 10% back.

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