Noometry

Model comparison

GLM-5.3-Flash vs QwQ Plus

GLM-5.3-Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#41); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

51.8

Rank #41 Confirmed

QwQ Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

38.0

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. GLM-5.3-Flash scores higher in 1 category and QwQ Plus in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5.3-Flash leads 58.4 to 36.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.2% for GLM-5.3-Flash and 65.4% for QwQ Plus.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens, against $0.80 / $2.40 for QwQ Plus.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

GLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Alibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index51.838.0
Released2026-08-202025-03-05
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M131K
Max output131K8K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.80
Output $ / M tokens$0.50$2.40
Results tracked401

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.1 (#31), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
DeepSWE63.4%—
FrontierCode31.8%—
CursorBench36.8%—
LMArena WebDev1609—
FrontierSWE18.1%—
SciCode51.6%—
LMArena Coding1508—
ALE-Bench303.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 34.2 (#47), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
APEX-Agents52.8%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 48.0 (#42), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
ARC-AGI-265.8%—
ARC-AGI-191%—
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles14%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1491—
Mystery Game Puzzles8%—
Surface Evolver Bench52.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.15—
Epoch Capabilities Index151.88—

Math Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.3 (#47), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.9%—
ProofBench21%—
LMArena Math1500—

Knowledge GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 58.4 (#36), QwQ Plus: 36.4

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
GPQA Diamond90.2%65.4%
LMArena Expert1513—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 42.8 (#27), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Vision1296—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 56.0 (#25), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Non-English1462—
LMArena Chinese1527—
LMArena French1496—
LMArena German1470—
LMArena Japanese1429—
LMArena Korean1446—
LMArena Russian1469—
LMArena Spanish1471—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 77.5 (#20), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Instruction Following1478—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 45.4 (#39), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Longer Query1482—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 65.3 (#50), QwQ Plus: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashQwQ Plus
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1442—
LMArena Multi-Turn1467—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.3-Flash better than QwQ Plus?

GLM-5.3-Flash has enough public results to be ranked (#41); QwQ Plus does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3-Flash or QwQ Plus?

GLM-5.3-Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; QwQ Plus lists at $0.80 and $2.40.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 131K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3-Flash and QwQ Plus share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. GLM-5.3-Flash has 40 scored results on Noometry and QwQ Plus has 1.

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