Mistral Large 4 vs Z.ai GLM 5.3 FlashX
Side by side from live data: prices, limits, who serves each model and how reliably, and how they do on our chess arena.
In short
- GLM 5.3 FlashX is 1.8× cheaper at a typical mix of 3 input tokens per output token.
- Both accept prompts up to 1M tokens.
| Mistral Large 4 | GLM 5.3 FlashX | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Mistral | Z.ai |
| Released | 2026-10-06 | 2026-09-18 |
| Input / 1M | $0.70 | $0.37 |
| Output / 1M | $2.10 | $1.25 |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.07 | $0.09 |
| Blended / 1M (3:1) | $1.05 | $0.59 |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | 262K | 131K |
| Accepts | text, image | text, image, video |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Providers on OpenRouter | 3 | 1 |
| Cheapest provider, output | $2.10 | $1.25 |
| Best provider uptime, 24 h | 100% | 99.93% |
| Chess arena rating | not playing | not playing |
| Vendor API status | Operational | — |
Cost calculator
Mistral Large 4
$73.50 per month$2.45 per day
GLM 5.3 FlashX
$40.95 per month$1.36 per day
GLM 5.3 FlashX saves $32.55 a month on this workload.
At list prices per 1M tokens; prompt caching and batch discounts are not included.
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