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DeepSeek V4.1 Flash vs GLM 5.3

Compare DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, GLM 5.3 by token pricing, context length, benchmark results, speed and tool support.

Monthly workload

Monthly cost breakdown

InputOutput

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

$7.00 / mo

GLM 5.3

$45 / mo

Performance comparison

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

39.5

GLM 5.3

44.8

Overview

Released
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
2026-09-10
GLM 5.3
2026-08-18
Status
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Active
GLM 5.3
Active
Input formats
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
textimage
GLM 5.3
text
Output formats
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
text
GLM 5.3
text

Pricing & capacity

Input / 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$0.05
GLM 5.3
$1.40
Output / 1M tokens
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$1.20
GLM 5.3
$3.39
Cached input / 1M
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$0.02
GLM 5.3
$0.05
Monthly cost
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
$7.00
GLM 5.3
$45
Context window
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1M
GLM 5.3
1M
Maximum output
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
944K
GLM 5.3
944K

Benchmarks & performance

Arena Elo
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
Not listed
MMLU-Pro
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
Not listed
Intelligence Index
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
39.5
GLM 5.3
44.8
GPQA
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
91.7%
Humanity’s Last Exam
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
39.2%
GLM 5.3
42.3%
SciCode
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
51.9%
GLM 5.3
59%
Output speed
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
213 tokens/s
GLM 5.3
72 tokens/s
Time to first token
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1.05 s
GLM 5.3
2.73 s
DesignArena rating
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
1,325
GLM 5.3
Not listed
DesignArena win rate
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
52.1%
GLM 5.3
Not listed

Tools & features

Function calling
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported
Structured outputs
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported
JSON mode
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported
Reasoning
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported
Built-in web search
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
Not listed
Log probabilities
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported
Deterministic seed
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported
Parallel tool calls
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
Supported
Prompt caching
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Supported
GLM 5.3
Supported

API & availability

API identifier
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
deepseek-v4.1-flash
GLM 5.3
glm-5.3
API providers
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
Not listed
Knowledge cutoff
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Not listed
GLM 5.3
Not listed
Prices checked
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Oct 8, 2026
GLM 5.3
Oct 8, 2026

About the models

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a sparse mixture-of-experts model from DeepSeek, and the first built on the company's Causal Encoder-Decoder (CED) architecture. It activates 8B parameters on input and 16B on...

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GLM 5.3

GLM-5.3 is a large-scale reasoning model from Z.ai, built for complex software engineering and long-horizon agent tasks. It supports text input and output with a 1M-token context window, and improves...

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Comparison FAQ

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.05 input and $1.20 output per million tokens. GLM 5.3: $1.40 input and $3.39 output per million tokens. The cheaper choice depends on your input-to-output ratio; a model can have a lower input rate but a higher output rate.

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