GLM-5.3 vs Qwen3.8 27B: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
License: https://artificialanalysis.ai/docs/legal/Terms-of-Use.pdf

Comparison of the GLM-5.3 and Qwen3.8 27B releases: 2 and 4 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 6 models.

For intelligence, GLM-5.3 scores highest: GLM-5.3 (Max) at 32, against Qwen3.8 27B (Xhigh) at 20 for Qwen3.8 27B.
For time per task, GLM-5.3 is fastest: GLM-5.3 (Low) at 14.1 min, against Qwen3.8 27B (Non-reasoning) at 16.9 min for Qwen3.8 27B.
For cost per task, GLM-5.3 is cheapest: GLM-5.3 (Low) at $1.57, against Qwen3.8 27B (Low) at $1.91 for Qwen3.8 27B.

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Releases compared


	GLM-5.3 (max)	GLM-5.3 (low)	Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)	Qwen3.8 27B (medium)	Qwen3.8 27B (low)	Qwen3.8 27B (non-reasoning)
Intelligence Index	32	23	20	17	16	10
Finance & Accounting	42	31	36	29	28	22
Strategy & Ops	47	38	39	34	29	16
Legal	36	28	33	26	27	22
Healthcare & Medical	39	31	35	24	23	19
Engineering	38	28	28	22	21	17
Economics	39	30	35	29	28	22
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1503	1185	1393	1373	1270	901
AutomationBench-AA	62.2%	52.0%	48.2%	40.3%	30.1%	12.4%
Terminal-Bench 4.0	41.9%	34.8%	5.6%	5.1%	2.5%	0.0%
FrontierCode 2.0	21.6%	12.7%	14.9%	11.5%	12.4%	3.7%
AA-Omniscience v1.1	6	−11	−6	−36	−21	−7
GDP.pdf	11.2%	8.8%	16.4%	12.8%	10.4%	5.2%
HLE-Diamond	17.9%	17.5%	15.3%	6.7%	6.8%	4.2%
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	33.5%	21.5%	4.0%	16.5%	5.5%	2.0%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	9.5%	3.8%	0.5%	1.0%	0.5%	0.0%

Cost per TaskUSD	$5.01	$1.57	$3.53	$2.16	$1.91	$3.77
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$1.40	$1.40	$0.50	$0.50	$0.50	$0.50
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.40	$4.40	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00	$3.00
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.26	$0.26	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10	$0.10
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	--	--	--	--	--	--

Time per TaskMinutes	29.0	14.1	38.1	27.4	25.9	16.9
Output Speedtok/s	68	61	48	53	52	44
Time to First Answer Tokens	71.18	7.85	124.50	31.09	16.33	5.51
Time to First Tokens	3.18	3.04	5.62	5.87	5.39	5.51
End-to-End TimeMean of Single-Request Workloads (s)	165.41	38.73	260.94	149.34	122.47	53.45

Context Window	1M	1M	256k	256k	256k	256k
Creator	Z AI	Z AI	Alibaba	Alibaba	Alibaba	Alibaba
License	Open	Open	Open	Open	Open	Open
Input Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text, image, and video	Supports: text, image, and video
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers	+19	+3	+7			+4

Updated

Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

Time per Task

Inference time (minutes) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

GLM-5.3

Qwen3.8 27B

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Output tokens divided by end-to-end output speed (minutes per Intelligence Index task) · Speed at the model's own endpoint or the median across providers · Lower is better

The weighted average time (minutes) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task: output tokens per task divided by output speed, weighted by each benchmark's weight in the Intelligence Index.

Speed and latency metrics average each endpoint's runs over the past 5 days, and the error rate pools them. We run the benchmark every 6 hours, and endpoints of deprecated models every 18 hours.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Model AvsModel B

AA-PersonalityBench: Expressiveness Index, GLM-5.3 (max) vs Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)

Chance each model’s answer is judged to show more of each trait from their Elo gap · 50% is an even match

GLM-5.3 (max)

Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)

Lexically Varied

100%

Natural Sounding

99%

Eloquent

98%

Metaphorical

88%

12%

Literate

87%

13%

GLM-5.3 vs Qwen3.8 27B: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Time per Task

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time per Intelligence Index Task

Time Period

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

AA-PersonalityBench: Expressiveness Index, GLM-5.3 (max) vs Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)