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Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX vs Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash

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

Z.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashX Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
Vendorz-aiz-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-70.6
Input Price$0.37/M$0.15/M
Output Price$1.25/M$0.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,310,720
Max Output131,072943,718
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-69.0

Who wins by task?

TaskZ.ai: GLM 5.3 FlashXZ.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash
SQL Generation 133 142
Code Review 132 145
Code Completion 131 133
Code Refactoring 136 147
Bug Fixing 136 149
Unit Test Generation 124 132
Code Documentation 131 138
Regex Writing 119 126
CI/CD Pipelines 120 128
Frontend Component Design 122 130
Data Analysis 124 134
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 136
ETL Scripting 128 137
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 129
OCR / Document Parsing 131 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 134
Long-Document Summarization 137 149
Short-Form Summarization 123 127
Blog Post Writing 121 130

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

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