Comparing 2 models

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Benchmarks through

Verdict

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash places higher on 6 of the 6 tasks where both are ranked. GLM 5.3 Flash costs 1.5x less per input token.

  • Choose DeepSeek V4.1 Flash for JSON & Schema Output (#1), Local LLM for Coding (#1), Structured Data Extraction (#1).

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Model 2GLM 5.3 Flash
Best for
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#1)
High-Volume Extraction (#3)
Provider
deepseek
z-ai
Context
1.0MBest
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$0.036
$0.024Best
Output / 1M
$0.68Best
$0.90
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
yesBest
yesBest
Released
Sep 10, 2026
Aug 21, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationDeepSeek V4.1 FlashGLM 5.3 FlashSource
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)67.4% ± 2.855.8% ± 2.9source · 2026-10-08
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)89.8% ± 1.790.2% ± 1.7source · 2026-10-09
LiveBench Agentic Coding77.3%56.8%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Coding80.0%79.0%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Data Analysis79.3%76.4%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Instruction Following70.0%52.8%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Language81.2%77.3%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Math93.3%81.2%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Reasoning86.7%77.6%source · 2026-10-16
LMArena Agent3-1.1source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery7.9-5.7source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability1.9-3source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Task Outcome7.53.9source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination0.50.6source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Creative Writing1437 Elo1441 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1473 Elo1478 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1474 Elo1482 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1478 Elo1505 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1475 Elo1474 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1468 Elo1463 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Vision1260 Elo1273 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena Vision Diagrams1291 Elo1306 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena Vision OCR1270 Elo1284 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena WebDev1619 Elo1606 Elosource · 2026-10-13
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web1609 Elo1581 Elosource · 2026-10-09
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)98.3% ± 0.693.9% ± 2.2source · 2026-10-08

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.