Nex AGI Nex-N2.5-Mini vs Z.ai GLM 5.3 Flash
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- Nex-N2.5-Mini is 1.2× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- GLM 5.3 Flash accepts longer prompts: 1M vs 262K tokens.
| Nex-N2.5-Mini | GLM 5.3 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Nex AGI | Z.ai |
| Released | 2026-09-08 | 2026-08-26 |
| Input / 1M | $0.025 | $0.046 |
| Output / 1M | $0.10 | $0.074 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.0025 | $0.03 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $0.044 | $0.053 |
| Context | 262K | 1M |
| Max output | 236K | 131K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 1 | 40 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $0.10 | $0.063 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 99.86% | 100% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | 1465 ±78 |
| Vendor API status | — | — |
Cost calculator
Nex-N2.5-Mini
$3.00 per month$0.10 per day
GLM 5.3 Flash
$3.85 per month$0.13 per day
Nex-N2.5-Mini saves $0.85 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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