GLM-5.3 Flash pricing
GLM-5.3 Flash, Small-tier from inference.net, costs $0.54 per 1M input tokens and $1.80 per 1M output tokens.
Input$0.54per 1M tokens
Output$1.80per 1M tokens
Context window1Mtokens
TierSmallinference.net
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Specs and pricing
| Provider | inference.net |
| Tier | Small |
| Context window | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 131K tokens |
| Input price | $0.54 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $1.80 / 1M tokens |
| Cache read | $0.108 / 1M tokens |
| Modalities | text |
Note. Inference.net gateway price for GLM-5.3 Flash (Z.ai), converted from the site's published per-token rate (costInputPerToken=0.000001, costOutputPerToken=0.000002 USD/token) to USD per 1M tokens: $0.54/1M input, $1.8/1M output, $0.108/1M cache read.
What it costs at realistic volumes
Assuming a 4:1 input:output token ratio, a common shape for chat and RAG-style workloads:
| Volume (4:1 in:out ratio) | Input cost | Output cost | Total / month |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,000,000 in / 250,000 out | $0.54 | $0.45 | $0.99 |
| 10,000,000 in / 2,500,000 out | $5.40 | $4.50 | $9.90 |
| 100,000,000 in / 25,000,000 out | $54.00 | $45.00 | $99.00 |
Cheaper alternatives
Same tier (Small), a different provider, and a lower blended cost at the 4:1 ratio used above:
| Model | Provider | $/1M in | $/1M out | At the 4:1 ratio |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-Turbo | DeepInfra | $0.02 | $0.04 | 97% cheaper blended |
| Solar Pro 4 | OpenRouter | $0.03 | $0.12 | 93.9% cheaper blended |
| GPT-OSS 20B | OpenRouter | $0.03 | $0.13 | 93.7% cheaper blended |
| Amazon Nova Micro | Amazon (Nova) | $0.035 | $0.14 | 92.9% cheaper blended |
| Llama 3.1 8B | OpenRouter | $0.05 | $0.08 | 92.9% cheaper blended |