OpenRouter snapshot 2026-10-16 05:20 UTC
Chinese models, priced against the latest Opus and Sol.
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Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash, Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash, Tencent: Hy3 are in a tight band than Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 ($4.00/$20.00 per 1M tokens) and in a tight band than OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol ($2.00/$10.00). The blend is 75% input and 25% output. GLM-5.3 Flash matches Z.AI's published rate. The flagship GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3 list prices do not. That gap is the point of this site.
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| Model | Blended | vs Opus | vs Sol |
|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.8-flash | $0.230 | 97% cheaper | 94% cheaper |
| glm-5.3-flash | $0.291 | 96% cheaper | 93% cheaper |
| hy3 | $0.231 | 97% cheaper | 94% cheaper |
| deepseek-v4.1-flash | $0.198 | 98% cheaper | 95% cheaper |
| deepseek-v4-flash | $0.114 | 99% cheaper | 97% cheaper |
| minimax-m3 | $0.525 | 93% cheaper | 87% cheaper |
| mimo-v2.6-pro | $0.544 | 93% cheaper | 86% cheaper |
| mimo-v2.6-flash | $0.175 | 98% cheaper | 96% cheaper |
| deepseek-v4-pro | $1.19 | 85% cheaper | 70% cheaper |
| glm-5.3 | $1.26 | 84% cheaper | 69% cheaper |
| kimi-k3 | $3.13 | 61% cheaper | 22% cheaper |
| qwen3.8-max-prime | $6.00 | 25% cheaper | 50% dearer |
| step-3.5-flash | $0.150 | 98% cheaper | 96% cheaper |
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This week in Chinese AI: prices checked, two list prices that lieWeek of 16 Oct 2026. The snapshot, the GLM and Kimi endpoint check, and the benchmark files we stored.Chinese AI API prices, live, versus the latest Opus and SolOpenRouter prices for Chinese models, which flash tiers are actually cheap, and where the list price is not the lab's rate.Call Chinese models without sending the prompt to the labOpenRouter's endpoint list shows US-named hosts for GLM-5.3 and Kimi K3. The cheap host is not automatically the non-China host.Use Chinese models in Claude Code: the base URLs we could verifyAnthropic-compatible base URLs for Z.AI and DeepSeek, plus what we would not paste in for Kimi or Qwen.Coding plans compared: GLM's credits, and the plans we would not priceGLM publishes credits and a standard price on its own docs. DeepSeek's API page is pay-as-you-go. Other plan prices were not re-verified.What a coding session costs: flash models, flagships, and the cache assumptionAn illustrative 3 million token session, priced from the snapshot. Cache-write fees are excluded and the mix is not your repo.