Alternatives to GLM-5.3-Flash

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Alternatives

GLM-5.3: the text-only coding flagship with stronger cyber capability but fewer active savings.
Qwen3.8-Flash-Next: another August 26 open-weight cost-efficiency release, 125B total / 6B active.
DeepSeek V4 Flash: a strong open model for cost-sensitive agentic deployments.

GLM-5.3

Models

Zhipu coding model on GLM Coding Plan. Token API not on the public table yet. Not $18-only.

#Zhipu AI

5000000DR: 88AS: 90

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next

Models

Alibaba's open-weight architecture preview of Qwen4: 125B multimodal MoE with 6B active plus a 51B N-gram table, 262K native context, at $0.16/M input.

#Qwen

—DR: —AS: —

DeepSeek V4 Flash

Models

DeepSeek small agent model: 284B/13B MoE, 1M context, MIT weights, $0.14/$0.28 per 1M tokens.

#DeepSeek

45000000DR: 95AS: 88