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| Attribute | GLM 5.3glm-5.3 | GLM 5.3 Flashglm-5.3-flash | Grok 4 Fastgrok-4-fast |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $1.40 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.07 / 1M |
| Output | $4.40 / 1M | $0.25 / 1M | $0.175 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.07 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $1.40 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.07 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $1.40 / 1M | $0.075 / 1M | $0.07 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | 2M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | No | Yes | No |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Z.AI | Z.AI | xAI |
| 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. | 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. | Grok 4 Fast is xAI's cost-efficient multimodal model with a massive 2M-token context window. It’s available in both reasoning and non-reasoning modes, allowing developers to toggle deeper thinking when needed. Designed for scalable performance, it balances speed, capability, and price — with reasoning controllable via the reasoning_enabled API parameter. |