Compare models
Put up to 4 models beside each other — token prices, context windows, capabilities and provider, from the same catalogue the model pages read.
- GLM 5.3Z.AIRemove
- Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogleRemove
- GLM 4.6 (Thinking)Z.AIRemove
- Claude Fable 5.1AnthropicRemove
4 is the maximum. Remove one to add another.
| Attribute | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | GLM 4.6 (Thinking)glm-4.6-thinking | Claude Fable 5.1claude-fable-5.1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||||
| Input | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Output | $4.40 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M | $1.50 / 1M | $50.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M | $12.50 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M | $20.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $1.40 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | $0.40 / 1M | $1.00 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | ||||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 202.8K | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | ||||
| Vision | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | ||||
| Provider | Z.AI | Z.AI | Anthropic | |
| Category | chat | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | 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. | 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. | Claude Fable 5.1 is an upgraded version of Fable 5, delivering broad improvements with particularly strong gains in agentic coding, long-running workflows, and professional knowledge work. It excels at large code refactors, front-end and visual code generation, financial analysis, and complex analytical tasks. Compared with Fable 5, it also produces more concise plans and summaries while maintaining strong performance across extended tasks, making it a natural upgrade for existing Fable workflows and a strong option alongside Opus 5 for reasoning-intensive applications. |