# GLM 5.3 Flash vs GPT-5.6 Sol

As of Oct 15, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads GPT-5.6 Sol in 0 of 10 shared categories.

GLM 5.3 Flash: $0.2375 per 1M blended tokens.

GPT-5.6 Sol: $8.000000000000002 per 1M blended tokens.

GLM 5.3 Flash: open weights.

GPT-5.6 Sol: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in General LLM at #17 against #34.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Reasoning at #12 against #27.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Science at #13 against #34.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Coding at #9 against #10.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Coding › Agentic at #9 against #10.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #23 against #24.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Long context at #13 against #35.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Vision at #3 against #29.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Factuality at #15 against #34.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #3 against #14.

As of Oct 15, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in Coding (since Oct 14, 2026; sources Terminal-Bench 4.0; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol is near state of the art, rank #3 in Vision (since Oct 15, 2026; sources GDP.pdf; methodology v1.0).