Z.ai: GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.8 27B

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) costs $0.11 and Qwen3.8 27B costs $1.17, so GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) is about 10.6 times cheaper for the same work.

Both take in a similar amount of text: 1,048,576 and 1,000,000 tokens, about 1,573 and 1,500 pages.

On our blended benchmark score GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) leads 70.6 to 55.6.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick GLM 5.3 Flash (batch) if you need lower cost, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.