Head to head
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Z Ai | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Ai Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $1.40 | $0.750 |
| Output $/M tokens | $4.40 | $3.75 |
| Context window | 1.3M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 131K | 66K |
| WM Score | 91 | 88 |
| Benchmark quality | 92.3 | 86.9 |
| Hosts serving it | 24 | 2 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 171.5 | 149 |
| Latency (ms) | 579 | 2460 |
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Which should you pick?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 1.9× cheaper than Z.ai: GLM 5.3. 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.