Platform comparison

Novita AI vs Fireworks AI: costs, performance and limits

Choose Fireworks AI for GLM-5.3’s higher output speed via OpenRouter (60 vs Novita’s 40 tokens/s), or Novita AI when model APIs and Agent Sandbox need one account.

Updated 2026-10-15 · 7 sources · Methodology

Dimension	Winner	Margin	Evidence
Estimated request cost	Tie	$0.00 difference per example	$0.01840 / $0.01840²⁵
Output speed via OpenRouter (tokens/s)	Fireworks AI	~1.5× output rate	Fireworks AI 60 vs Novita AI 40 tokens/s¹
OpenRouter P50 route latency (s)	Fireworks AI	3.16 s route latency gap	Fireworks AI 0.75 vs Novita AI 3.91 s¹

Performance

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Provider	Output speed via OpenRouter (tokens/s)	OpenRouter P50 route latency (s)
Novita AI	40	3.91
Fireworks AI	60	0.75

Source: OpenRouter¹

Pricing

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Provider	Input / 1M tokens	Output / 1M tokens	Cached input / 1M tokens
Novita AI²³⁴	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26
Fireworks AI⁵⁶	$1.40	$4.40	$0.26

Cost example: 10,000 input + 1,000 billed output tokens

Novita AI$0.01840

Fireworks AI$0.01840

Capabilities and serving conditions

Dimension	Novita AI	Fireworks AI
API and model ID	`https://api.novita.ai/openai` `zai-org/glm-5.3`²³⁴	`https://api.fireworks.ai/inference/v1` `accounts/fireworks/models/glm-5p3`⁵⁶
Model catalog	200+	319 entries in the public catalog snapshot; catalog scopes differ from Novita’s advertised 200+ model count.⁷
Billing basis	Published input and output token rates; dedicated capacity and discounts are separate.	Published input and output token rates; dedicated capacity and discounts are separate.
Deployment options	Serverless API and dedicated endpoints.	Serverless API and dedicated GPU deployments.
Context / max output (tokens)	1M / 128K²	1040k / Requested output is reduced to fit the remaining context; default max_tokens is 2,048.⁵

Which to choose

When each option fits

Novita AI

Choose Novita AI when GLM-5.3 belongs alongside its text, image, video, audio and Agent Sandbox products.
Both providers’ direct uncached prices give the same $0.01840 request estimate; Novita has no base-price advantage here.
Its named GLM-5.3 API lists a 128K maximum output; the routed speed reference is 40 tokens/s.

Fireworks AI

Choose Fireworks AI when GLM-5.3 needs LoRA fine-tuning or a dedicated GPU deployment alongside serverless access.
Its standard OpenRouter route records 60 tokens/s and 0.75 s P50 latency, versus 40 and 3.91 s for Novita’s route.
Its usable context is 1040k tokens; requested output must fit the space left by the prompt, while dedicated deployments remain subject to account-wide quotas.

Methodology

Methodology and sources

Novita and Fireworks GLM-5.3 performance comes from one 2026-10-15 OpenRouter Standard-provider table: P50 latency and throughput across all reasoning-effort settings. These measurements include routing effects and do not measure direct API calls. Route latency is not relabeled as TTFT. Fireworks Fast and other separately priced routes are excluded; the paired AA provider data does not contain a Fireworks row.

The GLM-5.3 price columns use the direct providers' published input, output and cached-input rates, rather than OpenRouter promotional route prices. The chart applies uncached synchronous rates to 10,000 input and 1,000 billed output tokens, including reasoning; tax, retries, discounts and dedicated deployments are excluded. Catalog entries do not share a common inventory definition. This is Novita AI's public-source comparison, with no private workload test.

OpenRouter · GLM-5.3 Provider Performance openrouter.ai · Checked 2026-10-15
Novita AI · GLM-5.3 novita.ai · Checked 2026-10-15
Novita AI · Platform novita.ai · Checked 2026-10-15
Novita AI · Batch docs.novita.ai · Checked 2026-10-15
Fireworks AI · GLM-5.3 fireworks.ai · Checked 2026-10-15
Fireworks AI · Account Quotas docs.fireworks.ai · Checked 2026-10-15
Fireworks AI · Model Catalogfireworks.ai · Checked 2026-10-15

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