Been using GLM 5.3 Flash via Ollama Cloud basic subscription:

if this is the only model I had to use for the rest of my life, I would be cool with that. It's good at a wide variety of tasks including reverse engineering, design, working with ESP 32 etc.

I think Muse Spark 1.3 is better but GLM 5.3 Flash is an excellent daily driver.

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samtp an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I've been using GLM 5.3 Flash as the planner and DS 4.1 as the task worker over the last month and the results have been very good, predictable, ridiculously cheap.

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neya an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you liked GLM 5.3, you would appreciate Deepseek V4 Flash a lot. In my personal opinion and use-cases, it outperforms GLM 5.3.

	▲	0xbadcafebee an hour ago \| parent [-]
		V4 isn't the newest DeepSeek, and GLM 5.3 non-Flash isn't the same ballpark - DeepSeek V4.1 Flash has marginally better coding, and smaller experts (8B-In/16B-Out) with more compressed attention and KV cache, so it's faster but will have less expertise per task. It's a 552B model, so while it theoretically may contain more trained data it also requires more RAM (the experts are smaller to compensate for speed loss) making it harder to serve without the distributed KV cache DeepSeek hosts. - GLM 5.3 Flash has marginally better agentic work, and has video input (DS doesn't), and its experts are 18B so there's more intelligence per task. It's a 320B model so it requires less RAM which will make it cheaper to serve. Considering it's a much smaller model, the higher intelligence indicates their architecture/training is better. - GLM 5.3 (non-Flash) is far more intelligent than both; it's a 744B model with 40B experts, but it's text-only.

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thekevan 36 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Genuinely curious, why not use GPT Sol 6.1 high which has a better cost per task and intelligence ($0.32, 50) or Mimo 2.6 pro? ($0.13, 46) over GLM Max's $2.01, 45?

	▲	mapkkk 21 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Not OP, but I've been trying out Sol 6.1 medium with hermes agent, and I have not been able to match usage costs to what I've been getting with glm 5.3 flash high. Really don't know why, since I've offloaded thinking to the LLMs in this area of my life. Though even at medium, 6.1-Sol is noticeably better at most tasks I throw at it.
	▲	alexpotato 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		I'm OP and I have the Ollama basic $20/mo plan. Been very happy with it although I will say Muse Spark 1.3 being free on OpenCode is my main model these days. If I run out of free credits on OC (which almost never happens) then I drop into GLM Flash 5.3.
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dbreunig 29 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm the weirdo who is clinging onto GLM 5.2. 5.3 seems to have picked up the bad writing from Opus 5.

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dgellow an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you compared to deepseek v4.1 flash? It’s so good, at a ridiculous price