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Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

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

Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendorz-aiminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score70.647.2
Input Price$0.15/M$0.30/M
Output Price$0.50/M$1.20/M
Context Window1,310,7201,048,576
Max Output943,718512,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index69.048.2

Who wins by task?

TaskZ.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashMiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 142 139
Code Review 145 141
Code Completion 133 132
Code Refactoring 147 143
Bug Fixing 149 145
Unit Test Generation 132 129
Code Documentation 138 136
Regex Writing 126 124
CI/CD Pipelines 128 125
Frontend Component Design 130 127
Data Analysis 134 131
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 137 134
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 133
Long-Document Summarization 149 145
Short-Form Summarization 127 126
Blog Post Writing 130 127

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

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