Comparing 2 models

Gemini 4 Argon vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Benchmarks through

Verdict

Gemini 4 Argon and GLM 5.3 Flash are not yet ranked on the same task, so compare the specifications below. GLM 5.3 Flash costs 82.3x less per input token. Only GLM 5.3 Flash has open weights for self-hosting.

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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 1Gemini 4 Argon
Model 2GLM 5.3 Flash
Best for
a General Assistant (#1)
High-Volume Extraction (#3)
Provider
google
z-ai
Context
1.0MBest
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$2
$0.024Best
Output / 1M
$10
$0.90Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
—
yesBest
Released
Sep 30, 2026
Aug 21, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationGemini 4 ArgonGLM 5.3 FlashSource
Design Arena Coding1335 Elo1285 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena UI1319 Elo1318 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena Website1321 Elo1274 Elosource · 2026-10-16
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)86% ± 2.155.8% ± 2.9source · 2026-10-13
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)96.4% ± 1.290.2% ± 1.7source · 2026-10-13
LMArena Agent13.7-1.1source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery-21.4-5.7source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability16.8-3source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Task Outcome14.63.9source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination00.6source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Creative Writing1527 Elo1441 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1536 Elo1478 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1546 Elo1482 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1536 Elo1505 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1524 Elo1474 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1511 Elo1463 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena WebDev1678 Elo1606 Elosource · 2026-10-13
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)100% ± 093.9% ± 2.2source · 2026-10-13

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