#OpenRouter
Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash. Five days before any announcement, tokenizer fingerprinting was already pointing to Zhipu: 95 out of 95 against the GLM-5 vocabulary. Now Z.ai has confirmed it, published the weights on Hugging Face under an MIT license and revealed the architecture: 320B total with 18B active, 1M context, $0.075 per million. The 80% benchmark is still what it always was: a sample of ten tasks. On the full set, 63%.
One OpenAI-compatible endpoint for hundreds of models, with automatic fallback between providers. What OpenRouter is, how to call it from curl, Python, and PHP, how to control routing, provider, and cost caps, and the scenarios where this extra layer hurts more than it helps.
DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on its official pricing page, and the official V4 Pro release has finally dropped the preview label. The reported numbers, what's fact and what still has no public document, the comparison with Flash 0731 and Opus 4.8, and the notice on the pricing page itself that DeepSeek is going to raise prices soon.