GLM 5.3 Flash

“these open models (GLM particularly) were among the best of all LLM's on their benchmarks”

“I used Sol and GLM 5.3 Flash to produce a prototype of a tower defense game for myself, and it works just fine.”

“this one far underperforms relative to GLM 5.3 from every test I've done for real-world cybersecurity tasks”

“Lately I prefer GLM5.3-Flash since I feel it is noticeably smarter and I have the hardware for it”

“GLM 5.3 Flash is better if you need native multi-modal capabilities, higher speed, and lower costs, but worse than vanilla 5.3 in raw reasoning and for complex programming.”

“GLM5.3 Flash + OMP and DeepSeek Flash as advisor to be able to get jobs done just fine”

“it seems good enough for coding features if you have a good structure and a good AGENTS.md”

“GLM 5.3 flash matches Opus 4.8 in general intelligence, and somewhere in the Opus 4.7–4.8 band for coding.”

“it doesn't seem to reason holistically about code and over-engineers solutions to each specific problem it solves”

“it's just way too often I'd run it on some long running task and come back to it repeating the same tokens”

“there were open models like GLM-5.3 Flash that blew it out of the water at 1/20th of the price”

“I've been using GLM-5.3-Flash on Ollama Cloud's $20/mo plan and using OpenCode's free models to do a LOT of work”

“perfectly capable of following my spec and then poking holes in the implementation till there are none left”

“If benchmarks are anything to go by, Flash is like having a local Terra-tier coding model”

“they flow well while also being accurate & including necessary keywords, and being highly affordable”

“GLM 5.3 Flash feels like it oscillates between "I can't believe it's not Sonnet", but it costs a fraction of that”

“I've been very impressed with GLM 5.3 Flash's performance even without considering cost”

“when multiple quality USA vendors provide models like GLM 5.3-flash, I run locally just for the fun of it”

“today was the first time ever that a local model (GLM5.3 8-bit) was able to match fable5 in our tests”

“you're no longer reliant on a subscription, a working network connection, or the servers not being overloaded”

“I would still rather have 30 tokens per second of GLM 5.3 Flash than 100 tokens per second of Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B.”

“GLM 5.3 Flash is equivalent to 5.2, which is still awesome considering it's 10x-17x cheaper”

“GLM-5.3-Flash is actually cheaper than deepseek and better than deepseek but no one is talking about yet”

“very capable especially with tool calling, workflows, logic and its base coding ability”

“I suspect any model connected or built by China will serve their interest despite their terms and agreements.”

“GLM-5.3-Flash takes 7x (relative to Gemini and Sol) per task. So, it's cheaper, if you don't value your time!”

“And neither will they make clear what "analytical purposes" is for the data you can't opt out of.”

“Broad and perpetual license over inputs and outputs, and even your name and profile picture.”

“the CCP has enough oversight and control (either explicitly or by the companies making these decisions by default) that they will alter the models to benefit China”

“for heavy users this could justify buying $10k worth of hardware with a ROI over a few months”

“It managed the refactoring in blazing colors, and the resulting UI looked really good.”

“It's feeling good on non-pelican workloads too. Less verbose than 5.3, cheaper/higher usage limits”

“Except when their automated reviews decides that you've written something dangerous, in which case they'll use it for training.”

“couldn't get it to finish any task that took more then an hour with /goal keep getting errors”

“If Z.ai uses its absolute powers to ban you because you wrote a review about them or something, then you lose actual money.”

“Can ban you if you, in the "sole and absolute opinion" of Z.ai, have violated these broad terms”

“The model is MIT-licensed, so run it on any of the non-Chinese inference providers that will host it in a few days.”

“Impressive. It kicked everything between itself and Sol xhigh out of the Pareto frontier.”

“it ran like shit. Very slow (~20tps, VERY high latency) and it would timeout all the time.”

“having an open-weight comparable to close to SOTA makes it very compelling for me to try it out locally”