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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)
Vendordeepseekz-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score66.370.6
Input Price$0.15/M$0.06/M
Output Price$0.60/M$0.20/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output384,000131,072
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index65.169.0

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 FlashZ.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch)
SQL Generation 141 142
Code Review 144 145
Code Completion 133 133
Code Refactoring 146 147
Bug Fixing 148 149
Unit Test Generation 131 132
Code Documentation 137 138
Regex Writing 126 126
CI/CD Pipelines 127 128
Frontend Component Design 129 130
Data Analysis 133 134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 136
ETL Scripting 137 137
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 134
Long-Document Summarization 148 149
Short-Form Summarization 127 127
Blog Post Writing 129 130

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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