{
  "id": 1865986,
  "title": "Z.ai prices GLM-5.3 API access at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, unchanged from GLM-5.2 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/z-ai-prices-glm-5-3-api-access-at-1-40-per-million-input-tokens-and-4",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-19T04:45:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://venturebeat.com/ai/glm-5-3-hits-the-api-at-1-4-4-4-per-million-tokens"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Z.ai has launched the API for its GLM-5.3 language model, allowing developers to build on top of it and integrate it into their applications. The pricing for the API is unchanged from the previous version, GLM-5.2, at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens, according to VentureBeat.\n\nThe new model boasts improved coding and long-horizon agent performance, VentureBeat reports. Cached input costs $0.26 per million tokens, while cached-input storage is currently free for a limited time.\n\nGLM-5.3's pricing is lower than several high-end frontier APIs, VentureBeat states. Z.ai plans to make the model's weights openly available, but a specific date and licensing terms have not been announced.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "VentureBeat",
        "title": "GLM-5.3 hits the API at $1.4/$4.4 per million tokens",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/19/glm-5-3-hits-the-api-at-1-4-4-4-per-million-tokens",
        "published": "2026-08-19T02:00:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}