Comment by ac29

15 days ago

GLM 5.3 is roughly Opus class and is much, much cheaper

It’s more expensive than 6.1-sol though? At least according to benchmarks.

I think at this point comparing raw token pricing is often apples to oranges.

  • Those "price per task" benchmarks seem to pre-suppose the existence well-defined requirements and acceptance criteria.

    When that isn't available, and the task involves "understanding the problem", "deciding what I'm actually after" etc. iterations, I find price-per-token to still be a better predictor of cost.

Opus 5.5 class?

  • No, since that's a moving target. But the large GLM models are likely in a similar model weight class to the Opus family, just a few months behind

  • No, and anyone who says otherwise is being silly.

    It’s still damned capable though, I’ve done a crazy amount of good work with 5.3 Flash.