Mistral Large 4 vs GLM-5.3

Mistral AI's Mistral Large 4 and Zhipu AI's GLM-5.3 compared on specs, pricing, and capabilities — as configured in AI Crucible ensembles.

Mistral Large 4 input tokens are 2.0x cheaper than GLM-5.3 ($0.84 vs $1.68 per 1M tokens).
Mistral Large 4 output tokens are 2.1x cheaper than GLM-5.3 ($2.52 vs $5.28 per 1M tokens).
Mistral Large 4 offers the larger context window: 1.048576M tokens vs 1M tokens for GLM-5.3.
Mistral Large 4 accepts image inputs; GLM-5.3 is text-only in AI Crucible.

Specification	Mistral Large 4	GLM-5.3
Provider	Mistral AI	Zhipu AI
API model ID	mistral-large-4-0	zai-org/GLM-5.3
Description	Mistral AI's open-weight multimodal flagship (52B active / 1.05T total parameters) with reasoning and 1M context.	Z.AI's frontier open-weight model for coding and agentic work, with always-on reasoning and 1M context.
Context window	1.048576M tokens	1M tokens
Max output tokens	32,768	131,072
Input cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.84	$1.68
Output cost ($/1M tokens)	$2.52	$5.28
Cache read cost ($/1M tokens)	$0.08	$0.31
Latency	medium	medium
Reasoning model	Yes	Yes
Vision (image input)	Yes	No
Tool use	Yes	Yes