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| Attribute | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | Gemini 2.5 Flash Litegemini-2.5-flash-lite | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $1.40 / 1M | $0.15 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Output | $4.40 / 1M | $0.60 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.15 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.15 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $1.40 / 1M | $0.15 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1.0M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | No | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Z.AI | ||
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's large-scale reasoning model designed for complex software engineering and long-horizon agentic workflows. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, enabling sustained reasoning across large codebases and extended multi-step tasks. Building on GLM-5.2, it delivers stronger coding performance while improving the balance between capability and token efficiency, making it well suited for autonomous coding agents, large-scale engineering workflows, and complex task execution. | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a smaller, low-latency model focused on speed and cost efficiency. It delivers faster generation and better benchmark performance than earlier Flash models. Thinking mode is off by default for maximum speed, but developers can enable it when they want deeper reasoning at a higher cost. | 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. |