Home / Alternatives / GLM-5.3-Flash Z Alternatives to GLM-5.3-Flash For coding help for non-developers, GLM-5.3-Flash scores 69 and costs $1.20 per 1,000 requests. Here’s what beats it on price, on quality, or on privacy.
Overall 55 $0.24 / 1M
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Alternatives to Claude Fable 5.1 Claude Haiku 5.5 Claude Opus 5 Claude Opus 5.5 Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5.5 DeepSeek V4 Pro Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Gemini 3.8 Flash Gemini 4 Argon Gemma 4 31B IT GLM-5.3 GLM-5.3-Flash GPT-5.6 Sol GPT-5.6 Terra GPT-6 Astra GPT-6 Luna GPT-6 Sol GPT-6.1 Sol Grok 4.7 Kimi K3 MiniMax-M3 Mistral Large 4 Mistral Medium 3.5 Muse Spark 1.3 Muse Wonder Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Nova 2 Lite Qwen3.6 27B Qwen3.8 Max 90% similar MM MiniMax-M3.1-Flash MiniMax Overall –
Blended / 1M $0.26+11%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page MiniMax-M3.1-Flash vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall – Coding −9 Writing – Support – Value – Context 1M Back
88% similar Open weights DS DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 DeepSeek Overall –
Blended / 1M $0.53+121%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall – Coding +5 Writing – Support – Value – Context 1M Back
82% similar An Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic Overall 44−11
Blended / 1M $0.20−16%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −11 Coding −17 Writing −40 Support −33 Value −10 Context 1M Back
81% similar G Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Overall 71+16
Blended / 1M $1.50+532%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall +16 Coding −3 Writing +16 Support +11 Value +6 Context 1M Back
80% similar Open weights Z GLM-5.3 Z.ai Overall 61+6
Blended / 1M $2.15+805%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GLM-5.3 vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall +6 Coding −1 Writing +6 Support ±0 Value −6 Context 1M Back
78% similar OA GPT-6 Luna OpenAI Overall 37−18
Blended / 1M $0.20−16%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6 Luna vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −18 Coding −21 Writing −33 Support −36 Value −18 Context 1.1M Back
75% similar M Muse Spark 1.3 Meta Overall 68+13
Blended / 1M $2.00+742%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Muse Spark 1.3 vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall +13 Coding +6 Writing +6 Support +4 Value +2 Context 1M Back
72% similar Qw Qwen3.8 Max Alibaba (Qwen) Overall 66+11
Blended / 1M $3.00+1163%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Qwen3.8 Max vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall +11 Coding +6 Writing +11 Support +5 Value −2 Context 1M Back
70% similar Open weights MM MiniMax-M3 MiniMax Overall 31−24
Blended / 1M $0.53+121%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page MiniMax-M3 vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −24 Coding −24 Writing −18 Support −18 Value −28 Context 1M Back
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