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| Attribute | GLM 5.3 Flashglm-5.3-flash | Qwen2.5 72B Instructqwen-2.5-72b-instruct | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | Qwen3.8 27Bqwen3.8-27b |
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| Pricing | ||||
| Input | $0.075 / 1M | $0.13 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Output | $0.25 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M | $4.40 / 1M | $3.20 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.075 / 1M | $0.13 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.075 / 1M | $0.13 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.075 / 1M | $0.13 / 1M | $1.40 / 1M | $0.45 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||||
| Max context | 1M | 32K | 1M | 262K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||||
| Vision | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||||
| Provider | Z.AI | Alibaba | Z.AI | Alibaba |
| Category | chat | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — | — |
| Description | ||||
| Summary | GLM-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. | — | GLM-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. | 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. |