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  1. GLM 5.3 FlashZ.AIRemove
  2. Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicRemove
  3. Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaRemove
  4. Sonar ReasoningPerplexityRemove

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glm-5.3-flash vs claude-fable-5.1 vs qwen3.8-27b vs sonar-reasoning
AttributeGLM 5.3 Flashglm-5.3-flashClaude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5.1Qwen3.8 27Bqwen3.8-27bSonar Reasoningsonar-reasoning
Pricing
Input$0.075 / 1M$10.00 / 1M$0.45 / 1M$1.00 / 1M
Output$0.25 / 1M$50.00 / 1M$3.20 / 1M$5.00 / 1M
Cache Write (5m)$0.075 / 1M$12.50 / 1M$0.45 / 1M$1.00 / 1M
Cache Write (1h)$0.075 / 1M$20.00 / 1M$0.45 / 1M$1.00 / 1M
Cache Read$0.075 / 1M$1.00 / 1M$0.45 / 1M$1.00 / 1M
Web Search$0 / 1M$0 / 1M$0 / 1M$0 / 1M
Context
Max context1M1M262K127K
Max outputN/AN/AN/AN/A
Capabilities
VisionYesYesYesNo
Function CallingYesYesYesNo
JSON ModeYesYesYesNo
StreamingYesYesYesNo
Catalogue
ProviderZ.AIAnthropicAlibabaPerplexity
Categorychatchatchatchat
Charge typePay As You GoPay As You GoPay As You GoPay As You Go
Released
Description
SummaryGLM-5.3-Flash is Z.AI's efficient native multimodal model, designed for coding and long-horizon agentic workflows. It combines strong multimodal capabilities with an architecture optimized for responsive, cost-efficient task execution. Built on a hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture, GLM-5.3-Flash maintains accurate long-context behavior while reducing computational overhead, making it well suited for coding agents, extended multi-step tasks, and scalable production workloads.Claude Fable 5.1 is an upgraded version of Fable 5, delivering broad improvements with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, long-running workflows, and professional knowledge work. It excels at large code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, financial analysis, and complex analytical tasks. Compared with Fable 5, it also produces more concise plans and summaries while maintaining strong performance across extended tasks, making it a natural upgrade for existing Fable workflows and a strong option alongside Opus 5 for reasoning-intensive applications.Qwen3.8 27B is an open-weight dense vision-language model from Qwen, designed for coding, professional knowledge work, research, and multimodal interaction. It combines strong text and visual understanding with capabilities optimized for sustained, real-world agentic tasks. The model supports flexible thinking modes that can be enabled for deeper reasoning or disabled for faster execution, making it well suited for long-running agents, multimodal workflows, coding assistants, and cost-conscious self-hosted deployments.