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| Attribute | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Previewgemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Output | $4.40 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 1.0M |
| 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 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. | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model designed for high-volume and cost-sensitive workloads. It improves overall quality compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite while approaching the performance of Gemini 2.5 Flash across key capabilities. The model delivers enhancements in audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion, and supports configurable thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for flexible cost–performance optimization. With pricing at roughly half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash, it is well suited for large-scale production deployments. |