GLM 5.3 vs DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813
GLM 5.3 costs less on both: $0.3276 in and $1.0296 out per million tokens, against $0.75 in and $1.188 out for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. Both on one key at UplinkSwitch, each next to its developer's list price.
Prices · per million tokens, USD
| Tokens | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813deepseek-v4-pro-0813 |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.3276Z.ai lists $1.092 · 70% under | $0.75DeepSeek lists $1.32 · 43% under |
| Cached input | $0.0608Z.ai lists $0.2028 · 70% under | $0.0625DeepSeek lists $0.044 |
| Output | $1.0296Z.ai lists $3.432 · 70% under | $1.188DeepSeek lists $3.96 · 70% under |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Max output | 131,072 tokens | 393,216 tokens |
| Input | text | text |
| Released | 2026-08-18 | 2026-08-13 |
| Formats | OpenAI SDK | OpenAI SDK |
| Developer | Z.ai | DeepSeek |
List price: each developer's published rate, read October 2026. A model with no cached rate bills cached tokens at its input rate. Live from GET https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/catalog.
What the same work costs · USD, here and at list
| Work | GLM 5.3 | DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 chat requests | $1.17list $3.90 | $2.09list $4.62 |
| 100 long documents | $1.84list $6.15 | $3.99list $7.39 |
| A month of both, daily | $90.42list $301.39 | $182.45list $360.36 |
A chat request is 2,000 input and 500 output tokens; a long document is 50,000 in and 2,000 out; the month is 1,000 chats and 100 documents a day for 30 days, uncached. Over that month GLM 5.3 costs $92.03 less here.
Same key, same URL
One base URL and one key serve both models. The request below calls GLM 5.3; put deepseek-v4-pro-0813 in the model field to call DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 instead.
shell
curl https://api.uplinkswitch.com/v1/chat/completions \
-H "authorization: Bearer sk-uplink-live-..." \
-H "content-type: application/json" \
-d '{"model":"glm-5.3","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}]}'Model pages: GLM 5.3, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. Pricing by family: GLM, DeepSeek. More comparisons: GLM 5.3 vs Kimi K3, MiniMax M2.7 vs GLM 5.3, GLM 5.3 vs GLM 5.3 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 vs GPT-6.1 Sol.
Questions
- Which costs less, GLM 5.3 or DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813?
- GLM 5.3 costs less on both: $0.3276 in and $1.0296 out per million tokens, against $0.75 in and $1.188 out for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813.
- Can I switch between them by changing the model id?
- Yes. Both answer in the OpenAI SDK format at the same base URL with the same key. Change the model id from glm-5.3 to deepseek-v4-pro-0813 and nothing else.
- Is there a subscription?
- No. Prepaid credit from $10, with no subscription or monthly fee. Each top-up locks your prices for 30 days.
- Is GLM 5.3 better than DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813?
- Better depends on the job; this page compares what the catalog can measure. GLM 5.3 costs less on both: $0.3276 in and $1.0296 out per million tokens, against $0.75 in and $1.188 out for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. GLM 5.3 takes 1,000,000 tokens of context against 1,048,576 for DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813. GLM 5.3 is the newer release. Both run on the same key, so the fair test is your own prompt sent to each model id.