deepseek-v3.2 vs glm-5.3
Side-by-side comparison of deepseek-v3.2 and glm-5.3: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. glm-5.3 outperforms deepseek-v3.2 on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks.
deepseek-v3.2
Input / 1M
$0.56
Output / 1M
$1.68
Context
164K
Model ID
vertex/deepseek-v3.2
glm-5.3
Input / 1M
$1.40
Output / 1M
$4.40
Context
1M
Model ID
zai/glm-5.3
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
deepseek-v3.225.3%
glm-5.348.6%
Coding Indexcoding
deepseek-v3.244.2%
glm-5.374.8%
Math Indexmath
deepseek-v3.292.0%
glm-5.3N/A
GPQA Diamondreasoning
deepseek-v3.284.0%
glm-5.391.7%
AIME 2025math
deepseek-v3.292.0%
glm-5.3N/A
LiveCodeBenchcoding
deepseek-v3.286.2%
glm-5.3N/A
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
deepseek-v3.235.6%
glm-5.3N/A
τ²-Benchagentic
deepseek-v3.290.6%
glm-5.3N/A
SciCodecoding
deepseek-v3.2N/A
glm-5.359.0%
MMLU Proknowledge
deepseek-v3.286.2%
glm-5.3N/A
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
deepseek-v3.224.6%
glm-5.342.3%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| deepseek-v3.2 | glm-5.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $0.56 | $1.40 |
| Output price / 1M | $1.68 | $4.40 |
| Context window | 164K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 66K tokens | 128K tokens |
| Vision input | N/A | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | N/A | N/A |
| Provider | Google LLC (Vertex AI) | Z.ai |
Questions people ask
Is deepseek-v3.2 better than glm-5.3?
glm-5.3 outperforms deepseek-v3.2 on 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: deepseek-v3.2 and glm-5.3 have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, deepseek-v3.2 or glm-5.3?
deepseek-v3.2 is cheaper. deepseek-v3.2 costs $0.56/$1.68 per 1M input/output tokens, while glm-5.3 costs $1.40/$4.40.
Can I use deepseek-v3.2 and glm-5.3 through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "vertex/deepseek-v3.2" and "zai/glm-5.3", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
deepseek-v3.2 supports up to 164K tokens of context. glm-5.3 supports up to 1M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between deepseek-v3.2 and glm-5.3 with one line of code
Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API for 600+ models. Change the model parameter, not your code.