Qwen3.8 Flash Next vs GLM-5.3: API price and specs

Qwen3.8 Flash Next is 47% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on input price.

Qwen3.8 Flash Next is 69% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on output price.

Qwen3.8 Flash Next is 56% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

GLM-5.3 has a 4.9% larger context than Qwen3.8 Flash Next.

Field	Qwen3.8 Flash Next	GLM-5.3
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.10	$0.19 +89.9%
Median input, per 1M	$0.16	$1.40 +784.7%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.20	$0.64 +220%
Median output, per 1M	$0.50	$4.40 +787.4%
Lowest unit price	—	$0.033 / request
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.14	$0.32 +127.1%
Context	1M +4.6%	1M
Max output	262K +75%	1M
Providers	9 +86.4%	66
Regions	EU, GLOBAL, US	APAC, EU, FI, GLOBAL, US
Accepts	image, image/bmp, image/heic, image/jpeg, image/png, image/tiff, image/webp, text, video, video/mp4, video/quicktime, video/x-flv, video/x-matroska, video/x-ms-wmv, video/x-msvideo	file, image, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	yes
Cheapest provider	vultr	trustedrouter

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

abacus, cortecs, edenai, fireworks-ai, huggingface, requesty, tensorx, trustedrouter, vultr

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8 Flash Next or GLM-5.3?

Qwen3.8 Flash Next is 47% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on input price. Qwen3.8 Flash Next is 69% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on output price. Qwen3.8 Flash Next is 56% cheaper than GLM-5.3 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Qwen3.8 Flash Next or GLM-5.3?

Qwen3.8 Flash Next: 1M tokens; GLM-5.3: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Qwen3.8 Flash Next and GLM-5.3?

abacus, cortecs, edenai, fireworks-ai, huggingface, requesty, tensorx, trustedrouter, vultr