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GLM 5.3 Flash vs Phi 4

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

Winner summary

GLM 5.3 Flash wins 9 of 9 shared benchmarks. Leads in speed · arena · knowledge.

Category leads
speed·GLM 5.3 Flasharena·GLM 5.3 Flashknowledge·GLM 5.3 Flashmath·GLM 5.3 Flash
Hype vs Reality
GLM 5.3 Flash
#169 by perf·#3 by attention
OVERHYPED
Phi 4
#196 by perf·#20 by attention
QUIET
Best value
2.7x better value than GLM 5.3 Flash
GLM 5.3 Flash
135.7 pts/$
$0.33/M
Phi 4
372.4 pts/$
$0.11/M
Vendor risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Microsoft logo
Microsoft
$3.84T·Big Tech
Low risk
Head to head
GLM 5.3 FlashPhi 4
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +15.4
GLM 5.3 Flash
15.4
Phi 4
0.0
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +33.7
GLM 5.3 Flash
91.2
Phi 4
57.5
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +36.1
GLM 5.3 Flash
39.9
Phi 4
3.8
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +80.0
GLM 5.3 Flash
80.0
Phi 4
0.0
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +35.9
GLM 5.3 Flash
41.8
Phi 4
5.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +216.7
GLM 5.3 Flash
1473.0
Phi 4
1256.3
Chess Puzzles
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +9.5
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
GLM 5.3 Flash
9.5
Phi 4
0.0
GPQA diamond
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +45.5
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
GLM 5.3 Flash
86.9
Phi 4
41.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GLM 5.3 Flash leads by +80.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
GLM 5.3 Flash
93.9
Phi 4
13.7
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGLM 5.3 FlashPhi 4
Artificial Analysis · CritPt
15.40.0
Artificial Analysis · GPQA Diamond
91.257.5
Artificial Analysis · Humanity's Last Exam
39.93.8
Artificial Analysis · Long Context Reasoning
80.00.0
Artificial Analysis · Quality Index
41.85.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1473.01256.3
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
9.50.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
86.941.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
93.913.7
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
Microsoft logoPhi 4$0.07$0.1416K tokens (~8 books)$0.88