Gemini 3.8 Flash vs GLM-5.3

Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash and Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 compared on specs, pricing, and capabilities — as configured in AI Crucible ensembles.

Gemini 3.8 Flash input tokens are 1.9x cheaper than GLM-5.3 ($0.90 vs $1.68 per 1M tokens).
Gemini 3.8 Flash output tokens are 1.2x cheaper than GLM-5.3 ($4.50 vs $5.28 per 1M tokens).
Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts image inputs; GLM-5.3 is text-only in AI Crucible.

Specification	Gemini 3.8 Flash	GLM-5.3
Provider	Google	Zhipu AI
API model ID	gemini-3.8-flash	zai-org/GLM-5.3
Description	Google's most intelligent Flash model, engineered for long-horizon software engineering with 1M context.	Z.AI's frontier open-weight model for coding and agentic work, with always-on reasoning and 1M context.
Context window	1M tokens	1M tokens
Max output tokens	65,536	131,072
Input cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.90	$1.68
Output cost ($/1M tokens)	$4.50	$5.28
Cache read cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.09	$0.31
Latency	low	medium
Reasoning model	Yes	Yes
Vision (image input)	Yes	No
Tool use	Yes	Yes