Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) vs GLM-5.3 (Max)

Which is better for the money: Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) by Google or GLM-5.3 (Max) by Z AI? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Clear winner

GoogleGemini 3.5 Flash (High)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 32.60
Total cost: $4222

Z AIGLM-5.3 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 44.80
Total cost: $2503

Verdict

Pick GLM-5.3 (Max)

GLM-5.3 (Max) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash (High): 37.4% more intelligence, 40.7% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 89.8% slower end-to-end.

Metric	Gemini 3.5 Flash (High)	GLM-5.3 (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	32.6	44.8	+37.4% GLM-5.3 (Max) is 37.4% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$4,222.12	$2,503.48	−40.7% GLM-5.3 (Max) is 40.7% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	16.65s	31.61s	+89.8% GLM-5.3 (Max) is 89.8% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$1.50 / $9.00	$1.40 / $4.40
Input modalities	Text, Image, Speech, Video	Text

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Gemini 3.5 Flash (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
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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