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Mistral Large 4 vs GLM-5.3-Flash

Mistral Large 4Mistral AI
GLM-5.3-FlashZ.ai
Our take

GLM-5.3-Flash wins 4 of 4 categories and costs less: 8.7× cheaper for everyday text work. Easy pick.

Overall3755Best
Coding5569Best
Writing3464Best
Support4667Best
Value3060Best
Input / 1M$1.36$0.15Best
Output / 1M$4.18$0.50Best
Blended / 1M$2.07$0.24Best
Context window1MBest1M
Open weightsNoYes
Released6 Oct 202626 Aug 2026

Your monthly bill

50k
Mistral Large 4$413
GLM-5.3-Flash$47.50Cheapest
List prices, a quarter of the tokens as output. Scores are provisional, from Arena and Epoch AI.