MiniMax-M3.1-Flash vs GLM-5.3: API price and specs

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 41% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on input price.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 30% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on output price.

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 36% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	MiniMax-M3.1-Flash	GLM-5.3
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.11	$0.19 +68.8%
Median input, per 1M	$0.15	$1.40 +833.3%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.45	$0.64 +42.2%
Median output, per 1M	$0.60	$4.40 +633.3%
Lowest unit price	—	$0.033 / request
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.20	$0.32 +57%
Context	1M	1M
Max output	1M	1M
Providers	34 +48.5%	66
Regions	APAC, EU, GLOBAL, US	APAC, EU, FI, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	audio, file, image, text, video	file, image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	yes	yes
Cheapest provider	empiriolabs	trustedrouter

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, abacus, aihubmix, aiml, cometapi, cortecs, digitalocean, edenai, empiriolabs, fastrouter, fireworks-ai, huggingface, impossibl, inco, kenari, kilo, meganova, moark, nebius, novita, nvidia, ollama, ollama-cloud, opencode, openrouter, requesty, tensorx, togetherai, trustedrouter, vercel, wafer.ai, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash or GLM-5.3?

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 41% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on input price. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 30% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on output price. MiniMax-M3.1-Flash is 36% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, MiniMax-M3.1-Flash or GLM-5.3?

MiniMax-M3.1-Flash: 1M tokens; GLM-5.3: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both MiniMax-M3.1-Flash and GLM-5.3?