GLM-5.3 Released for Agentic Coding at 30% Lower Cost
markjeffrey · x · 2026-08-30
GLM-5.3 and glm-5.3-flash are now live on engy.ai with verified inference. GLM-5.3 runs at 100 tps with pricing of $0.98 input, $3.08 output, and $0.18 cache per 1M tokens, which is 30% lower than OpenRouter and the official API. Additionally, Zai announced that GLM-5.3 is now open-weight, designed specifically for agentic coding and cyber defense.
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