Comment by smartbit

1 day ago

Looking at these numbers IMHO, with Gemini you get the speed what you pay for.

                    Intel    Cost    
                     lig      per
                     ence    Task   Speed

  Gemini 3.7 flash    56     0.40    338
  GLM 5.3 flash       57     0.09     49
  Factor               1      4.4    6.9

I have both GLM & Gemini in a subscription and see no reason for choosing GLM 5.3 Flash. Working with de speed of Gemini 3.7 Flash is such a delight that I accept the hassle of working with Antigravity CLI, coming from Claude Code which I use for GLM.

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smartbit

andai 1 day ago

I find the Time per Task[0] metric more helpful, because models vary enormously in the tokens required to complete a task. On Time per Task, Gemini 3.7 Flash is Matched with GPT-5.6-Sol, as well as on price per task.

GLM-5.3-Flash takes 7x (relative to Gemini and Sol) per task. So, it's cheaper, if you don't value your time! Don't value real-time workflows, don't value iteration speed, etc. So, doesn't seem very suitable for interactive or agentic work to me.

But having an ultra cheap model for async stuff is always very nice. (Still, the last few weeks feel less about tech and more like a contest between who can afford to give the biggest discounts!)

I also like DeepSwe[2], although they measure Output Tokens and Agent Steps, which are misleading when one model has a much faster output speed. (e.g. on their metrics Gemini looks slower, because they don't account for that.)

[0] Time per Task - https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=glm-5-3-flash%2Cgemini...

[1] Output Tokens Per Task - https://artificialanalysis.ai/?models=glm-5-3-flash%2Cgemini...

[2] https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/