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  1. GLM 5.3Z.AIRemove
  2. Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogleRemove
  3. Gemini 3.5 TranscribeGoogleRemove
  4. Gemini 4 ArgonGoogleRemove

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glm-5.3 vs gemini-3.8-flash vs gemini-3.5-transcribe vs gemini-4-argon
AttributeGLM 5.3glm-5.3Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flashGemini 3.5 Transcribegemini-3.5-transcribeGemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon
Pricing
Input$1.40 / 1M$0.75 / 1M— Not priced per input token$2.00 / 1M
Output$4.40 / 1M$3.75 / 1M— Not priced per output token$10.00 / 1M
Cache Write (5m)$1.40 / 1M$0.75 / 1MNot applicable$2.00 / 1M
Cache Write (1h)$1.40 / 1M$0.75 / 1MNot applicable$2.00 / 1M
Cache Read$1.40 / 1M$0.75 / 1MNot applicable$2.00 / 1M
Web Search$0 / 1M$0 / 1M$0 / 1M$0 / 1M
Context
Max context1M1M98.3K1M
Max outputN/AN/AN/AN/A
Capabilities
VisionNoYesYesYes
Function CallingYesYesYesYes
JSON ModeYesYesNoYes
StreamingYesYesNoYes
Catalogue
ProviderZ.AIGoogleGoogleGoogle
Categorychatchatvoicechat
Charge typePay As You GoPay As You GoPay As You GoPay As You Go
Released——2026-09-25—
Description
SummaryGLM-5.3 is Z.ai's large-scale reasoning model designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon agentic workflows. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, enabling sustained reasoning across large codebases and extended multi-step tasks. Building on GLM-5.2, it delivers stronger coding performance while improving the balance between capability and token efficiency, making it well suited for autonomous coding agents, large-scale engineering workflows, and complex task execution.Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality.Google Gemini 3.5 Transcribe speech-to-text. Billed per input and output token.Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response.