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GLM-5.3-FlashvsKimi K3
Kimi K3 leads 8 of 9 shared benchmarks. GLM-5.3-Flash is 27.7x cheaper per token. Both offer a 1M-token context window.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
1 – 8
Kimi K3 leads
Cheaper per token
GLM-5.3-Flash
27.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Tie
both 1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
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Z.ai · Moonshot AI
GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai · released 2026-09-16
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
9 shared · 10 only GLM-5.3-Flash · 48 only Kimi K3| Benchmark | GLM-5.3-Flash | Kimi K3 | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 9 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.2% ↗epoch | 93.5% ↗ | -3.3 pt | Kimi K3 |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 63.4% ↗ | 67.3% ↗ | -3.9 pt | Kimi K3 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 17.1% ↗epoch | 39% ↗epoch | -21.9 pt | Kimi K3 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 55.8% ↗epoch | 72.2% ↗epoch | -16.4 pt | Kimi K3 |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1773 ↗ | 1686 ↗ | +87 | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| MMVU | 80.5% ↗ | 82.1% ↗ | -1.6 pt | Kimi K3 |
| OfficeQA Pro | 62.4% ↗ | 63.3% ↗ | -0.9 pt | Kimi K3 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 93.9% ↗epoch | 97.2% ↗epoch | -3.3 pt | Kimi K3 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% ↗ | 88.3% ↗ | -4 pt | Kimi K3 |
| Only GLM-5.3-Flash reports · 10 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1471.9 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI) | 26.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| AutomationBench v1.0.6 | 48.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BabyVision | 53.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chartography (with tools) | 78% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CharXiv Reasoning (with tools) | 89.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HLE (with tools) | 55.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MVBench | 77.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| NL2Repo | 56.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Toolathlon Verified | 78.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Kimi K3 reports · 48 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 96.7% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | not reported | 43.5% ↗ | — | — |
| AA-Briefcase | not reported | 1548 ↗ | — | — |
| AA-LCR | not reported | 74.7% ↗ | — | — |
| Agents' Last Exam | not reported | 28.3% ↗ | — | — |
| APEX-Agents | not reported | 41% ↗ | — | — |
| AutomationBench | not reported | 30.8% ↗ | — | — |
| BabyVision (with Python) | not reported | 85.7% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (1M context, no compaction) | not reported | 90.4% ↗ | — | — |
| BrowseComp (context compaction) | not reported | 91.2% ↗ | — | — |
| CharXiv Reasoning (no tools) | not reported | 84.8% ↗ | — | — |
| CharXiv Reasoning (with Python) | not reported | 91.3% ↗ | — | — |
| CorpFin v2 | not reported | 71.6% ↗ | — | — |
| CritPt | not reported | 23.4% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSearchQA (F1) | not reported | 95% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 (Kimi Code) | not reported | 67.5% ↗ | — | — |
| Finance Agent v2 | not reported | 54.4% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierSWE | not reported | 81.2% ↗ | — | — |
| Harvey Lab-AA | not reported | 94.6% ↗ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | not reported | 56% ↗ | — | — |
| JobBench | not reported | 54.3% ↗ | — | — |
| Kimi Code Bench 2.0 | not reported | 72.9% ↗ | — | — |
| Legal Research Bench | not reported | 44.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MathVision (no tools) | not reported | 94.3% ↗ | — | — |
| MathVision (with Python) | not reported | 97.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MCP-Atlas | not reported | 84.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MCPMark-Verified | not reported | 94.5% ↗ | — | — |
| MLS-Bench-Lite | not reported | 48.3% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | not reported | 81.6% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with Python) | not reported | 83.4% ↗ | — | — |
| OmniDocBench | not reported | 91.1% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | not reported | 58.3% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | not reported | 84.8% ↗ | — | — |
| PerceptionBench | not reported | 58.5% ↗ | — | — |
| PostTrainBench | not reported | 36.6% ↗ | — | — |
| ProgramBench | not reported | 77.8% ↗ | — | — |
| ResearchRubrics | not reported | 76.2% ↗ | — | — |
| SaaS-Bench | not reported | 60.1% ↗ | — | — |
| SciCode | not reported | 58.7% ↗ | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | not reported | 50.6% ↗epoch | — | — |
| SpreadsheetBench 2 | not reported | 34.8% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Marathon | not reported | 42% ↗ | — | — |
| tau3-Banking | not reported | 33.4% ↗ | — | — |
| Toolathlon-Verified | not reported | 76.5% ↗ | — | — |
| Video-MME (with subtitles) | not reported | 90% ↗ | — | — |
| WorldVQA ForceAnswer | not reported | 51% ↗ | — | — |
| ZeroBench pass@5 (no tools) | not reported | 23% ↗ | — | — |
| ZeroBench pass@5 (with Python) | not reported | 41% ↗ | — | — |
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 GLM-5.3-Flash minus Kimi K3 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | GLM-5.3-Flash | Kimi K3 | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens | Tie |
| Max output | 131K tokens | 1.0M tokens | Kimi K3 |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | $3 ↗ | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $15 ↗ | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 ↗ | $0.3 ↗ | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.65 | $18 | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision | Tie |
| Released | 2026-09-16 | 2026-07-16 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 59 | — |
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