In short
How they differ.
Worked out from the figures below. Prices and specs are the makers' own, read Oct 20, 2026.
- GLM-5.3 is cheaper per output token: $4.40 against $7.50 per million tokens, so Mistral Medium 3.5 costs 1.7 times as much.
- GLM-5.3 reads more at once: a context window of 1M tokens against 256K.
- Both can be downloaded and run on your own machine.
- No independent board we follow ranks both models yet.
Side by side
The specs.
| GLM-5.3 | Mistral Medium 3.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Made by | Z.ai (Zhipu AI) · China | Mistral AI · France |
| Released | Not stated | Apr 28, 2026 |
| Price per 1M tokens | $1.40 in / $4.40 out | $1.50 in / $7.50 out |
| Context window | 1M | 256K |
| Takes in | text | text, image |
| Download and run it yourself | Yes (glm-5.3 (license tag shown on Hugging Face)) | Yes (Modified MIT) |
| Size | 753B (Hugging Face safetensors size field) parameters | 128B (dense) parameters |
| Maker says | “GLM-5.3 is Z.ai's latest flagship model, delivering comprehensive advancements in complex software engineering” | “Our frontier-class multimodal model optimized for agentic and coding use cases.” |
| 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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