Zhipu vs Grok API pricing

Checked against the official price pages on 2026-10-14

In short

At 100M input and 20M output tokens a month, the cheapest model from each is GLM-5.3-Flash (about ¥136 a month) and grok-4.3 (about ¥1,178 a month). Zhipu's entry model is cheaper; Grok's costs about 8.7 times as much.

The most expensive from each is GLM-5.3 (about ¥1,360 a month) and grok-4.7 (about ¥2,155 a month). Price says nothing about whether the models are equally capable; weigh it with benchmarks and context length.

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Prices are per million tokens: ¥ is CNY, $ is USD; time-of-day pricing is written peak / off-peak. Monthly cost is in CNY and assumes 100M input and 20M output tokens a month, no cache hits and half of calls at peak hours where that applies, cheapest first. Models priced in USD are converted at 1 USD = 6.733 CNY (PBoC central parity, 2026-10-09).

Model	Input	Cache hit	Output	Monthly (CNY)
ZhipuGLM-5.3-Flash	¥0.8	¥0.23	¥2.8	136
xAIgrok-4.3	$1.25	$0.2	$2.5	1,178
ZhipuGLM-5.3	¥8	¥2	¥28	1,360
xAIgrok-4.7	$2	$0.5	$6	2,155

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