# GLM 5.3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol

As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 leads GPT-5.6 Sol in 3 of 8 shared categories: Coding, Coding › Agentic, and Coding › Web dev.

GLM 5.3: $1.29 per 1M blended tokens.

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

GLM 5.3: open weights.

GPT-5.6 Sol: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 in General LLM at #17 against #23.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 in Reasoning at #12 against #19.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 in Science at #13 against #28.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 leads GPT-5.6 Sol in Coding at #7 against #9.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 leads GPT-5.6 Sol in Coding › Agentic at #7 against #9.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 leads GPT-5.6 Sol in Coding › Web dev at #18 against #21.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 in Long context at #13 against #27.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol leads GLM 5.3 in Factuality at #14 against #27.

As of Oct 14, 2026, GLM 5.3 is tied for state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 13, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol is near state of the art, rank #3 in Vision (since Oct 14, 2026; sources GDP.pdf; methodology v1.0).