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Mistral Large 4 vs GLM-5.3 Flash
Of the 5 public leaderboards that rate both, Mistral Large 4 scores higher on 2 and GLM-5.3 Flash on 3. On the ArtificialWatch Index, which takes the median of each model's percentile across the boards that score it, Mistral Large 4 is at 20.9 and GLM-5.3 Flash at 22.2 (out of 100). On each maker's API, Mistral Large 4 costs $0.70 / $2.10 per 1M tokens (input / output) and GLM-5.3 Flash $0.15 / $0.50.
Scores as published by each board; table composed November 13, 2026.
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Leaderboard by leaderboard
| Board | Mistral Large 4 | GLM-5.3 Flash | Higher |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Elo (community votes) | 1,564.5 | 1,608.8 | GLM-5.3 Flash |
| LiveBench global average (0-100) | 40.9 | 60.7 | GLM-5.3 Flash |
| Vals AI Vals Index accuracy % · weighted finance + coding tasks | 56.5 | 50.9 | Mistral Large 4 |
| Artificial Analysis intelligence index · measured runs only | 26.1 | 27.8 | GLM-5.3 Flash |
| Epoch AI Epoch Capabilities Index (ECI) · many benchmarks on one scale | 154.6 | 153.8 | Mistral Large 4 |
Raw scores are each board's own scale, so compare within a row, not across rows. Full table: the bench index.
For coding
On the ArtificialWatch coding index, Mistral Large 4 is at 14 (#46 of 48) and GLM-5.3 Flash at 37 (#29). Mistral Large 4 scores higher on 1 of the 3 coding boards that rate both and GLM-5.3 Flash on 2.
| Coding board | Mistral Large 4 | GLM-5.3 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena · Coding | 1,457.5 | 1,509.4 |
| LiveBench · Coding | 44.4 | 70.9 |
| Vals Vibe Code Bench | 81.6 | 30.8 |
Mistral Large 4 at a glance
- Developer
- Mistral
- Status
- Live since October 6, 2026
- API price
- $0.70 input / $2.10 output per 1M tokens · Mistral, mistral-large-4
- Context window
- 1.05M tokens
Live — Oct 6, public preview on Mistral's API and OpenRouter · 1T total / 49B active · open weights since Oct 29 on Hugging Face (Mistral Ecosystem Open-Weight License, a modified MIT; running it as a paid API service needs a separate license), an improved checkpoint after three more weeks of RL by Mistral's account · $0.70 / $2.10 per 1M from Oct 29 ($0.07 cached, Mistral's docs) · Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0: 26 (read Oct 29) · Epoch Capabilities Index (read Oct 15): 146.9, 71st of 277, level with OpenAI's o3 from April 2025 (146.9) and behind the open-weight Kimi K3 (157.4), GLM-5.3 (155.9) and DeepSeek V4 Pro (155.3).
Mistral Large 4's weights are out, and Mistral says they beat its own preview
2026-10-29 · Mistral published the weights of Mistral Large 4 on Hugging Face on October 29, two days inside the end-of-October date it gave when the model went to public preview on October 6. The repository, mistralai/Mistral-Large-4-1T-A52B, holds the full checkpoint in 54 shards and is not gated.
Mistral Large 4 is out in public preview: 1T parameters, $0.68 in and $2.09 out for now, open weights by the end of October
2026-10-06 · Mistral launched Mistral Large 4 today as a public preview on its own API. Per Mistral's docs it is a natively multimodal mixture-of-experts model with about 1.05 trillion total parameters and 49 billion active, plus a 1.6B vision encoder. Mistral says it will release the open weights by the end of this month.
GLM-5.3 Flash at a glance
- Developer
- Zhipu AI
- Status
- Live since August 26, 2026
- API price
- $0.15 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens · Z.AI, glm-5.3-flash
- Context window
- 1M tokens
Live - $0.075/$0.25 per 1M · 1.31M ctx · open weights on HF Aug 25 · shipped first as the stealth id ox-alpha, which our sweep read FREE at ~1.05M ctx across three gateways Aug 20-21 · that Z.ai confirmed the stealth run was this model on Aug 26 is search-grade, not our own reading.
Mistral Large 4 vs GLM-5.3 Flash: quick answers
Which is better, Mistral Large 4 or GLM-5.3 Flash?
It depends on what you measure. Of the 5 public leaderboards that rate both, Mistral Large 4 scores higher on 2 and GLM-5.3 Flash on 3. Mistral Large 4's widest lead is on Vals AI; GLM-5.3 Flash's widest lead is on LiveBench. On the ArtificialWatch Index, which takes the median of each model's percentile across the boards that score it, Mistral Large 4 is at 20.9 and GLM-5.3 Flash at 22.2 (out of 100).
Which is newer, Mistral Large 4 or GLM-5.3 Flash?
Mistral Large 4. It went live on October 6, 2026, 41 days after GLM-5.3 Flash (August 26, 2026).
Which is cheaper, Mistral Large 4 or GLM-5.3 Flash?
GLM-5.3 Flash is cheaper on both input and output. On each vendor's own API, Mistral Large 4 is $0.70 input / $2.10 output per million tokens and GLM-5.3 Flash is $0.15 input / $0.50 output per million tokens. Prices as published in the models.dev catalog, as of 2026-11-12.
Which has the bigger context window, Mistral Large 4 or GLM-5.3 Flash?
Mistral Large 4, at 1.05M tokens against GLM-5.3 Flash's 1M, as each vendor lists it.
How do Mistral Large 4 and GLM-5.3 Flash compare for coding?
On the ArtificialWatch coding index, Mistral Large 4 is at 14 (#46 of 48) and GLM-5.3 Flash at 37 (#29). Mistral Large 4 scores higher on 1 of the 3 coding boards that rate both and GLM-5.3 Flash on 2.
Who makes Mistral Large 4 and GLM-5.3 Flash?
Mistral Large 4 is from Mistral; GLM-5.3 Flash is from Zhipu AI.
Where do these numbers come from?
Each score is the leaderboard's own published figure, read by ArtificialWatch (table composed November 13, 2026). Boards measure different things, so raw scores are only comparable within a row.
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