Head to head
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Z Ai | Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $1.40 | $2.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $4.40 | $6.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 131K | 131K |
| WM Score | 91 | 89 |
| Benchmark quality | 96.3 | 91.6 |
| Hosts serving it | 1 | 1 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 24 | 40 |
| Latency (ms) | 4957 | 2146 |
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Which should you pick?
Z.ai: GLM 5.3 costs less per million input tokens — about 1.4× cheaper than Qwen: Qwen3.8 Max. 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.