Model comparison

GLM-5.3 vs Mistral Medium

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.3 Z.ai (Zhipu)

54.8

Rank #26 Confirmed

Mistral Medium Mistral AI

36.3

Rank #218 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.3 scores higher in 9 categories and Mistral Medium in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where GLM-5.3 leads 62.3 to 28.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 91.1% for GLM-5.3 and 32.2% for Mistral Medium.
  • GLM-5.3 is cheaper at $1.40 / $4.40 per million input/output tokens, against $1.50 / $7.50 for Mistral Medium.
  • GLM-5.3 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 262K.

Side by side

GLM-5.3 and Mistral Medium specifications
GLM-5.3Mistral Medium
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index54.836.3
Released2026-08-142023-12-11
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M262K
Max output131K262K
Input $ / M tokens$1.40$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$4.40$7.50
Results tracked4236

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Category by category

Coding GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 59.5 (#14), Mistral Medium: 34.2 (#243)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
FrontierCode40.1%8%
SciCode59%40.2%
WeirdML75.4%43.7%
LMArena Coding14961434
ALE-Bench1,317763.98
DeepSWE69%—
CursorBench42.6%—
LMArena WebDev1622—
FrontierSWE30.2%—

Agentic & Tool Use GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 36.4 (#38), Mistral Medium: 28.3 (#90)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
APEX-Agents56.6%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—37.7%
Vending-Bench 28,164—

Reasoning GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 46.1 (#46), Mistral Medium: 24.0 (#167)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
CritPt19.1%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts14891426
DTBench87.7%75.5%
LMCA55.5%26.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—50%
NYT Connections (extended)74.2%—
Chess Puzzles21%—
Mystery Game Puzzles33%—
Surface Evolver Bench—26.9%
Bench to the Future 30.15—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.61—

Math GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 62.3 (#33), Mistral Medium: 28.1 (#245)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202591.1%32.2%
ProofBench49%9%
LMArena Math14891408
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)68.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 429.3%—
MATH Level 5—81.6%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—0.3%

Knowledge GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 58.3 (#37), Mistral Medium: 25.0 (#265)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
GPQA Diamond90.9%59.5%
LMArena Expert15161408
Humanity's Last Exam—4.5%
SimpleQA Verified41%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—22.7%

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5.3: —, Mistral Medium: 35.3 (#88)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
LMArena Vision—1172

Multilingual GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 55.7 (#28), Mistral Medium: 52.1 (#91)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
LMArena Non-English14571408
LMArena Chinese15281447
LMArena French14991459
LMArena German14991432
LMArena Japanese14531378
LMArena Korean14721380
LMArena Russian14631411
LMArena Spanish14601433

Instruction Following GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 77.5 (#23), Mistral Medium: 73.7 (#116)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
LMArena Instruction Following14771398

Long Context GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 45.4 (#41), Mistral Medium: 42.9 (#114)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
LMArena Longer Query14821406

Writing & Preference GLM-5.3 leads

GLM-5.3: 75.7 (#6), Mistral Medium: 60.0 (#103)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkGLM-5.3Mistral Medium
LMArena Text14711424
LMArena Creative Writing14571391
LMArena Multi-Turn14721418
Short-Story Creative Writing—77.3%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2075—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.3 better than Mistral Medium?

GLM-5.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 36.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3 or Mistral Medium?

GLM-5.3 is cheaper. It lists at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Mistral Medium lists at $1.50 and $7.50.

Is GLM-5.3 or Mistral Medium better for coding?

GLM-5.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.5 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3 does, with 1M tokens against 262K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3 and Mistral Medium share?

27 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.3 has 42 scored results on Noometry and Mistral Medium has 36.

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