Apodex 1.1 vs GLM-5.3 (Max)

Which is better for the money: Apodex 1.1 by Apodex or GLM-5.3 (Max) by Z AI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

ApodexApodex 1.1Off the frontier

Intelligence: 26.40
Total cost: $939

Z AIGLM-5.3 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 44.80
Total cost: $2503

Verdict

Depends on your budget

GLM-5.3 (Max) scores 18.4 points higher (44.8 vs 26.4) but costs 2.7× as much to run the benchmark ($2503 vs $939; flagship vs premium cost classes). Pick GLM-5.3 (Max) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Apodex 1.1.

Metric	Apodex 1.1	GLM-5.3 (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	26.4	44.8	+69.7% GLM-5.3 (Max) is 69.7% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$939.06	$2,503.48	+166.6% GLM-5.3 (Max) is 2.7× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	Not reported	28.79s	— not comparable
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.30 / $3.00	$1.40 / $4.40
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text

GLM-5.3 (Max) vs Apodex 1.1: 69.7% more intelligence, 166.6% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and end-to-end time not fully reported.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Apodex 1.1 is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
GLM-5.3 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.

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