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DeepSeek V4 FlashvsGLM-5.3

GLM-5.3 leads 16 of 22 shared benchmarks. Both offer a 1M-token context window.

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
6 – 16
GLM-5.3 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · Z.ai
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · released 2026-07-31
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Context
1M
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
28 · 7 core
GLM-5.3
Z.ai · released 2026-08-18
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Context
1M
Max out
131K
Input /1M
$1.4 ↗
Output /1M
$4.4 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.26
Scores
57 · 9 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGLM-5.3ΔEdge
Reported by both · 22
GPQA Diamond91% ↗epoch run90.9% ↗epoch run+0.1 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
LMArena Elo1436 ↗1478.5 ↗-42.5GLM-5.3
Agents' Last Exam25.2% ↗28.5% ↗-3.3 ptGLM-5.3
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)33% ↗epoch run21% ↗epoch run+12 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)53.3% ↗69% ↗-15.7 ptGLM-5.3
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)24.4% ↗epoch run29.3% ↗epoch run-4.9 ptGLM-5.3
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)57.5% ↗epoch run68.8% ↗epoch run-11.3 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)46.8% ↗60.9% ↗-14.1 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)75% ↗79% ↗-4 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)79.3% ↗70.2% ↗+9.1 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)65.5% ↗69.3% ↗-3.8 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)79.2% ↗79.9% ↗-0.7 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)86.8% ↗87.9% ↗-1.1 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)86.6% ↗85.8% ↗+0.8 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1581 ↗1623 ↗-42GLM-5.3
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)34% ↗epoch run33% ↗epoch run+1 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
NL2Repo54.2% ↗58% ↗-3.8 ptGLM-5.3
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.4% ↗epoch run91.1% ↗epoch run+3.3 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)61.1% ↗66.2% ↗-5.1 ptGLM-5.3
SimpleQA Verified33.6% ↗epoch run41% ↗epoch run-7.4 ptGLM-5.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)18.7% ↗38.9% ↗-20.2 ptGLM-5.3
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)63% ↗75.4% ↗-12.4 ptGLM-5.3
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash reports · 6
AutomationBench Public25.1% ↗not reported——
Cybergym76.7% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE54.4% ↗not reported——
Terminal Bench 2.182.7% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified70.3% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)70.7% ↗not reported——
Only GLM-5.3 reports · 21
Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI)not reported28.5% ↗——
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported56.6% ↗——
AutomationBench v1.0.6not reported48.2% ↗——
CyberGymnot reported84.5% ↗——
DeepSWE v1.1not reported66.9% ↗——
ExploitBenchnot reported54.4% ↗——
ExploitGym 2hnot reported105 ↗——
ExploitGym 6hnot reported130 ↗——
FrontierSWEnot reported78.1% ↗——
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)not reported30.2% ↗——
GDPval-AA v2not reported1769 ↗——
HLE (with tools)not reported62.5% ↗——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)not reported0.0236 ↗——
PostTrainBenchnot reported39.8% ↗——
ProgramBench (Almost Solved)not reported19% ↗——
SWE-Marathon v1.1not reported42.5% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 2.1not reported88.2% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 3.0not reported28.3% ↗——
Toolathlon Verifiednot reported73% ↗——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)not reported8163.61 ↗——
Z.ai Code Bench (max effort)not reported34.5% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V4 Flash minus GLM-5.3 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V4 FlashGLM-5.3Edge
Context window1M tokens1M tokensTie
Max output—131K tokens—
Input price / 1M—$1.4 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$4.4 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.26 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$5.8—
ModalitiestexttextTie
Released2026-07-312026-08-18—
Cited benchmark scores2857—
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