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Mistral Medium 3.5 vs GLM-5.3

Mistral Medium 3.5Mistral AI
GLM-5.3Z.ai
Our take

GLM-5.3 wins 4 of 4 categories and costs less: 1.4× cheaper for everyday text work. Easy pick.

Overall1861Best
Coding1968Best
Writing3570Best
Support4067Best
Value954Best
Input / 1M$1.50$1.40Best
Output / 1M$7.50$4.40Best
Blended / 1M$3.00$2.15Best
Context window262K1MBest
Open weightsYesYes
Released29 Apr 202614 Aug 2026

Your monthly bill

50k
Mistral Medium 3.5$600
GLM-5.3$430Cheapest
List prices, a quarter of the tokens as output. Scores are provisional, from Arena and Epoch AI.