NEAR AI Cloud Brings Secure GLM Model to OpenRouter

NEAR AI Cloud is now available as a provider on OpenRouter, giving developers access to the GLM 5.3 Flash model through the 'near-ai' provider slug. This multimodal mixture-of-experts architecture can handle text, images, and video inputs, producing text outputs. The model boasts substantial numbers: 320 billion total parameters, with 18 billion active at any given time.

The GLM 5.3 Flash model is developed by Z.ai and was publicly launched on August 26 after an anonymous preview period called 'Ox Alpha'. NEAR AI Cloud wraps the model in cryptographically verified confidential inference, a feature that most AI providers don't offer.

The pricing for using NEAR AI Cloud sits at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. The platform maintains a zero data retention policy, with every request coming with a cryptographic attestation report as proof of secure computation.