# GLM 5.3 Flash vs Grok 4.6

As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in 7 of 10 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding, Coding › Agentic, Long context, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

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

Grok 4.6: $3 per 1M blended tokens.

GLM 5.3 Flash: open weights.

Grok 4.6: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in General LLM at #30 against #48.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Reasoning at #26 against #44.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Science at #10 against #34.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Coding at #10 against #14.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Coding › Agentic at #10 against #14.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #20 against #22.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Long context at #30 against #41.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 leads GLM 5.3 Flash in Vision at #24 against #29.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Factuality at #30 against #51.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 Flash leads Grok 4.6 in Abstraction (ARC) at #14 against #20.

As of Oct 14, 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 14, 2026, Grok 4.6 is ranked #10 in Science (since Oct 14, 2026; sources GPQA Diamond; methodology v1.0).