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GLM-5.3-FlashvsSonar
GLM-5.3-Flash and Sonar do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. GLM-5.3-Flash is 3.1x cheaper per token. GLM-5.3-Flash has the larger context window (1M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
GLM-5.3-Flash
3.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
GLM-5.3-Flash
1M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
— · 100%
Z.ai · Perplexity
GLM-5.3-Flash
Z.ai · released 2026-09-16
textvision
Quality
Benchmark matrix
0 shared · 19 only GLM-5.3-Flash · 1 only Sonar| Benchmark | GLM-5.3-Flash | Sonar | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 0 | ||||
| No public benchmark is reported for both models yet. | ||||
| Only GLM-5.3-Flash reports · 19 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 90.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| 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 | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 63.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 17.1% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 55.8% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1773 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| HLE (with tools) | 55.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMVU | 80.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MVBench | 77.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| NL2Repo | 56.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OfficeQA Pro | 62.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 93.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Toolathlon Verified | 78.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Sonar reports · 1 | ||||
| SimpleQA F-score | not reported | 77.3% ↗ | — | — |
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 Sonar 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 | Sonar | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 128K tokens | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Max output | 131K tokens | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $0.15 ↗ | $1 ↗ | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $1 ↗ | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.03 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $0.65 | $2 | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text | GLM-5.3-Flash |
| Released | 2026-09-16 | 2025-01-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 19 | 1 | — |
Reliability
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