Home / Alternatives / GLM-5.3-Flash Z Alternatives to GLM-5.3-Flash For summarising documents cheaply, GLM-5.3-Flash scores 55 and costs $0.75 per 1,000 summaries. 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 87% 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
79% similar Open weights DS DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek Overall 53−2
Blended / 1M $1.98+734%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page DeepSeek V4 Pro vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −2 Coding −13 Writing −3 Support −8 Value −13 Context 1M Back
79% 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 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
74% similar An Claude Sonnet 5 Anthropic Overall 53−2
Blended / 1M $4.00+1584%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Claude Sonnet 5 vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −2 Coding −14 Writing −11 Support −11 Value −17 Context 1M Back
73% similar OA GPT-6 Sol OpenAI Overall 52−3
Blended / 1M $4.00+1584%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-6 Sol vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −3 Coding −7 Writing −28 Support −30 Value −18 Context 1.1M Back
71% similar OA GPT-5.6 Terra OpenAI Overall 60+5
Blended / 1M $4.50+1795%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page GPT-5.6 Terra vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall +5 Coding −15 Writing −11 Support −10 Value −10 Context 1.1M Back
71% similar Open weights G Gemma 4 31B IT Google Overall 28−27
Blended / 1M $0.25+5%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Gemma 4 31B IT vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −27 Coding −39 Writing −14 Support −16 Value −28 Context 262K Back
71% similar Open weights NV Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA Overall 27−28
Blended / 1M $0.24±0%
Trade-offs ↻ Model page Nemotron 3.5 Super VL vs GLM-5.3-Flash Overall −28 Coding −43 Writing −31 Support −33 Value −29 Context 1M Back
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