Nomic Embed Text vs GLM 5.3
Practical read: Nomic Embed Text costs under a tenth as much. GLM 5.3 reads more context. One API key runs both.
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Side by side:
| Attribute | Nomic Embed Text | GLM 5.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price, 1M in + out | $0.017 Tinfoil, cheapest route | $2.11 Pearl Research Labs, cheapest route |
| Best for | Low cost | Long documents |
| Input / output, 1M | $0.017 / $0 | $0.53 / $1.58 |
| Cached input | Not published | $0.03165/1M to $0.96005/1M |
| Context window | 8K 8,192 tokens | 1.05M 1,048,576 tokens |
| First token, p50 | Measuring | 0.83 s via FriendliAI |
| Throughput | Measuring | 215 tok/s via Telnyx |
| AI IQ | Unrated | IQ 124 #30 on AI IQ |
| Provider routes | 1 | 33 with failover |
| Privacy | Confidential E2EE and zero retention route | Confidential E2EE and zero retention route |
| Recent route uptime range | not enough data | 100.00% |
| Publisher | nomic-ai | Z.AI |
| Modes | embeddings | chat |
| More detail |
Price adds one million input and one million output tokens on the cheapest route. Prices and speed change: see the monthly reports and run a small eval before you choose a default.
Questions
Which should I use, Nomic Embed Text or Z.ai: GLM 5.3?
Nomic Embed Text has the lower published input-plus-output rate. Z.ai: GLM 5.3 has more Credits provider routes and the larger context window. There is not enough recent probe data to compare speed.
Is Nomic Embed Text or Z.ai: GLM 5.3 cheaper?
The current cheapest TrustedRouter route is $0.01688/1M for Nomic Embed Text and $2.11/1M for Z.ai: GLM 5.3. The comparison uses current catalog prices and updates as provider pricing changes.
Is Nomic Embed Text or Z.ai: GLM 5.3 faster?
Current measured p50 time to first token is not enough data for Nomic Embed Text and 826 ms for Z.ai: GLM 5.3. These are routed probe measurements, not vendor-advertised speeds, and update as new samples arrive.
Can I test Nomic Embed Text and Z.ai: GLM 5.3 with the same API?
Both use the same TrustedRouter base URL and API key. At least one of them is not a chat model, so the request can differ as well as the model id: the API docs list the route for each kind of model.
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Try Nomic Embed Text and GLM 5.3 with one key.
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