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Model comparison

GLM-5.3-Flash vs Ministral 3B

GLM-5.3-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.6 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 5.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.3-Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai (Zhipu)

49.6

Rank #45 Confirmed

Ministral 3B Mistral AI

25.6

Rank #336 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. GLM-5.3-Flash scores higher in 3 categories and Ministral 3B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where GLM-5.3-Flash leads 58.4 to 10.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.2% for GLM-5.3-Flash and 25.3% for Ministral 3B.
  • Ministral 3B is cheaper at $0.04 / $0.04 per million input/output tokens, against $0.15 / $0.50 for GLM-5.3-Flash.
  • GLM-5.3-Flash accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 128K.

Side by side

GLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
ProviderZ.ai (Zhipu)Mistral AI
Noometry Index49.625.6
Released2026-08-202024-10-01
WeightsOpenOpen
Context window1M128K
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$0.15$0.04
Output $ / M tokens$0.50$0.04
Results tracked366

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.7 (#26), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
DeepSWE63.4%—
FrontierCode31.8%—
LMArena WebDev1614—
SciCode51.6%—
LMArena Coding1506—
ALE-Bench303.55—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 34.3 (#41), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
APEX-Agents52.8%—
GDP.pdf14%—

Reasoning GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 31.7 (#69), Ministral 3B: 17.7 (#278)

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
Epoch Capabilities Index151.9118.08
CritPt15.4%—
Chess Puzzles14%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1490—
Mystery Game Puzzles8%—
DTBench—51.7%
LMCA—5.5%
Surface Evolver Bench52.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.15—

Math GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 53.1 (#38), Ministral 3B: 24.5 (#257)

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)55.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 417.1%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202593.9%—
ProofBench21%—
LMArena Math1499—
MATH Level 5—14.4%

Knowledge GLM-5.3-Flash leads

GLM-5.3-Flash: 58.4 (#33), Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#297)

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
GPQA Diamond90.2%25.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7.3%
LMArena Expert1512—

Multimodal Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 42.6 (#25), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Vision1304—

Multilingual Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 56.2 (#24), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Non-English1462—
LMArena Chinese1529—
LMArena French1495—
LMArena German1457—
LMArena Japanese1420—
LMArena Korean1443—
LMArena Russian1472—
LMArena Spanish1471—

Instruction Following Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 77.8 (#17), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Instruction Following1480—

Long Context Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 45.3 (#41), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Longer Query1479—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

GLM-5.3-Flash: 65.4 (#49), Ministral 3B: —

BenchmarkGLM-5.3-FlashMinistral 3B
LMArena Text1471—
LMArena Creative Writing1440—
LMArena Multi-Turn1471—

Frequently asked questions

Is GLM-5.3-Flash better than Ministral 3B?

GLM-5.3-Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.6 to 25.6 on the Noometry Index. Ministral 3B costs 5.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when GLM-5.3-Flash's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, GLM-5.3-Flash or Ministral 3B?

Ministral 3B is cheaper. It lists at $0.04 per million input tokens and $0.04 per million output tokens; GLM-5.3-Flash lists at $0.15 and $0.50.

Which has the bigger context window?

GLM-5.3-Flash does, with 1M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do GLM-5.3-Flash and Ministral 3B share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. GLM-5.3-Flash has 36 scored results on Noometry and Ministral 3B has 6.

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