Head to head
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash vs Z.ai: GLM 5
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash Z Ai | Z.ai: GLM 5 Z Ai |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $0.075 | $1.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $0.250 | $3.20 |
| Context window | 1.3M | 205K |
| Max output | 131K | 128K |
| WM Score | 95 | 81 |
| Benchmark quality | 93.1 | 76.7 |
| Hosts serving it | 20 | 11 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 110 | 111 |
| Latency (ms) | 898 | 809 |
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Which should you pick?
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 13.3× cheaper than Z.ai: GLM 5. Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash scores higher on measured quality. Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash 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.