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GLM 5.3 Flash vs GPT-5 Pro

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

GLM 5.3 Flash wins 1 of 2 shared benchmarks.

Category leads
math·GPT-5 Pro
Hype vs Reality
GLM 5.3 Flash
#169 by perf·#3 by attention
OVERHYPED
GPT-5 Pro
#173 by perf·#4 by attention
OVERHYPED
Best value
217.0x better value than GPT-5 Pro
GLM 5.3 Flash
135.7 pts/$
$0.33/M
GPT-5 Pro
0.6 pts/$
$67.50/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GLM 5.3 FlashGPT-5 Pro
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5 Pro leads by +2.4
GLM 5.3 Flash
17.1
GPT-5 Pro
19.5
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GLM 5.3 Flash
55.8
GPT-5 Pro
55.8
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 5.3 FlashGPT-5 Pro
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
17.119.5
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
55.855.8
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
z-ai logoGLM 5.3 Flash$0.15$0.501.0M tokens (~524 books)$2.38
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Pro$15.00$120.00400K tokens (~200 books)$412.50