GLM-5.3-Flash and what to use instead
For customer support replies, GLM-5.3-Flash scores 67 and costs $0.43 per 1,000 replies. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Cheaper at similar quality
At least 30% cheaper and within 5 points.
Nothing we track fits this today.
Better at a similar price
At least 5 points stronger and no more than 20% dearer.
Nothing we track fits this today.
Open weights you can host
Ranked by value: quality for the money.
Kimi K3Moonshot AI · open weightsAbout 2371% dearer per reply, and 6 points stronger.$10.50 per 1,000 replies · score 73Compare side by side →
GLM-5.3Z.ai · open weightsAbout 808% dearer per reply, and as strong.$3.86 per 1,000 replies · score 67Compare side by side →
Gemma 4 31B ITGoogle · open weightsAbout 8% dearer per reply, and 16 points weaker.$0.46 per 1,000 replies · score 51Compare side by side →
Scores are provisional (Arena and Epoch AI) and prices are list prices. Rankings never take money into account. Thresholds are in the methodology.