In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- Mistral Large 4 is cheaper per output token: $2.09 against $4.40 per million tokens, so GLM-5.3 costs 2.1 times as much.
- GLM-5.3 can be downloaded and run on your own machine; Mistral Large 4 can't.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| GLM-5.3 | Mistral Large 4 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · China | Mistral AI · France |
| Released | Not stated | Oct 6, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $1.40 in / $4.40 out | $0.68 in / $2.09 out (sale price) |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Takes in | text | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (glm-5.3 (license tag shown on Hugging Face)) | No |
| Size | 753B (Hugging Face safetensors size field) parameters | 1.05T parameters, 52B active |
| Maker says | “GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's latest flagship model, delivering comprehensive advancements in complex software engineering” | “Mistral Large 4 is a state-of-the-art, open-weight, general-purpose multimodal model with a granular Mixture-of-Experts” |
| Sources | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description | Prices, Oct 20, 2026 · Description |
Independent tests
Where they place.
Position on each board we follow (1 is best). Epoch AI's and Vectara's scores are shown; the other boards are linked for their own figures.
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