Z.ai: GLM 5.3 is a 1,048,576-token model served on Composite at $0.0874 per million tokens in and $1.75 per million tokens out. Ranked #4 of 179 models by traffic on Composite over the last 30 days, taking 6.66% of tokens and 5.05% of requests (this model and its routing variants). 2 up and 0 down from 2 votes. A positive score is published once a model reaches 5 votes. Measured on Composite, 97.0% of its last 100 requests on Composite succeeded, the typical first token arrives in 1463 ms, output runs at about 123.8 tokens per second.
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Specifications
Specifications and pricing as served by Composite
Model ID
z-ai/glm-5.3
Provider
cv11
Context window
1,048,576 tokens
Accepts
text
Returns
text
Input price
$0.0874 per million tokens
Output price
$1.75 per million tokens
Prompt caching
Supported — cached input is billed at the provider's cache rate, on credits and plans alike
Thinking
Always on for this model
Moderated
No
Cost on a monthly plan
About 2.0 plan credits per typical call (8k in, 1k out)
Routing endpoints
10 (base plus 9 routing variants)
Use Z.ai: GLM 5.3 in JanitorAI or SillyTavern
Make a Composite API key and type z-ai/glm-5.3 as the model name. JanitorAI takes the full URL https://composite.lucidity.sh/v1/chat/completions; SillyTavern, ChubAI, Agnai and RisuAI take https://composite.lucidity.sh/v1. It runs on credits, a plan, or your own provider key.
6.66% of tokens and 5.05% of requests over 30 days, including routing variants.
Success rate
97.0%
Across the last 100 requests Composite served for this model.
Time to first token
1463 ms
Median across the same sample.
Output speed
123.8 tok/s
Median generation rate after the first token.
Prompt cache hits
56.6%
Share of prompt tokens served from the provider's cache over 7 days.
Routing variants
The same model behind 9 alternative endpoints. Call the id directly to pin a route; the base id above picks for you.
Route
Model ID
Provider
Price
Normal
z-ai/glm-5.3-normal
cv11
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Normal + cheapThink
z-ai/glm-5.3-normal:cheapThink
cv11
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Cheapest provider
z-ai/glm-5.3:cheapest-provider
Wafer
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Cheapest provider + cheapThink
z-ai/glm-5.3:cheapest-provider:cheapThink
Wafer
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
cheapThink
z-ai/glm-5.3:cheapThink
cv11
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Fast
z-ai/glm-5.3:fast
Wafer
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Fast + cheapThink
z-ai/glm-5.3:fast:cheapThink
Wafer
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Quality
z-ai/glm-5.3:quality
GMICloud
$0.875 per million tokens input · $2.75 per million tokens output
Quality + cheapThink
z-ai/glm-5.3:quality:cheapThink
GMICloud
$0.875 per million tokens input · $2.75 per million tokens output
Pricing
$0.0874 per million tokens input · $1.75 per million tokens output
Credits pay the provider’s price plus 25%; cache hits cost less.
On a monthly plan, a typical call (8k tokens in, 1k out) uses about 2.0 plan credits, at the provider's own price.
Provider
cv11
Roleplay fit
GLM models balance strong instruction-following with competitive pricing, a reasonable middle ground for most roleplay setups.
Context behavior
With a 1,048,576-token context window, it can hold a long-running roleplay or a full lorebook in memory without losing earlier plot details, so it suits multi-session campaigns and character cards with heavy backstory.
Cost for regular use
It is priced low enough for high-volume daily roleplay without the per-message cost adding up quickly.
From the provider
GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves...