Head to head
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Fable 5 Anthropic | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Z Ai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $10.00 | $1.40 |
| Output $/M tokens | $50.00 | $4.40 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 128K | 131K |
| WM Score | 91 | 91 |
| Benchmark quality | 94.8 | 96.3 |
| Hosts serving it | 5 | 1 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 77 | 35 |
| Latency (ms) | 4532 | 4356 |
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Which should you pick?
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 costs less per million input tokens — about 7.1× cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Fable 5. Z.ai: GLM 5.3 scores higher on measured quality. Z.ai: GLM 5.3 takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.