Head to head

Qwen 3.8 Flash vs GLM-5.3 Flash

Price, context, inputs and filters. No benchmarks theatre.

Both cost about the same per message.

Both hold the same amount of context.

Fact

Made by

Alibaba

Z.AI

Content tier

Open

Intelligence

Smart & Cheap

Quick

Price per message

~0.41 credits≈ 243 messages for $1

Context window

1M tokens≈ 1,538 pages of text in one go

1M tokens≈ 1,613 pages of text in one go

Reads

Text, Images, Video

Writes

Text

Tool use

Yes - search, memory, code and more

Served via

OpenRouter, Unbottled AI

Status

Current

A typical message: 16K tokens in, 1.5K out. Short replies cost less. 1 credit = $0.01.