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| Attribute | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | GLM 5.3 Flashglm-5.3-flash | GLM 4.6 (Thinking)glm-4.6-thinking |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.75 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
| Output | $3.75 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.75 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.75 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.75 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 202.8K |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Z.AI | Z.AI | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.AI's efficient native multimodal model, designed for coding and long-horizon agentic workflows. It combines strong multimodal capabilities with an architecture optimized for responsive, cost-efficient task execution. Built on a hybrid sparse and linear attention architecture, GLM-5.3-Flash maintains accurate long-context behavior while reducing computational overhead, making it well suited for coding agents, extended multi-step tasks, and scalable production workloads. | GLM-4.6 improves on GLM-4.5 with a larger 200K context window, stronger coding performance (including better real-world agent tools like Claude Code and Cline), and clearer gains in reasoning with built-in tool use. It delivers more capable agent behavior, integrates better into agent frameworks, and produces more natural, readable writing — especially in role-playing scenarios. |