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GLM 5.3 Flash
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GLM 5.3 Flash ranks 8 of 10 on the Web Search LLM Leaderboard, across 4,703 questions from BrowseComp, DeepSearchQA, HLE and Firecrawl Search Bench. It shares that rank with Claude Haiku 5.5.
Score with Firecrawl Alexandria61.9
+36.7 points of lift, from 25.2 without050100
Without With Firecrawl Alexandria
GLM 5.3 Flash on each question set
Points out of 100. Rank is among the 10 models on that set, by score with Firecrawl Alexandria; vs median is the gap to the median model there. Firecrawl Search Bench is our own question set; its questions are not published.
| Question set | Without | WithWith Firecrawl Alexandria | Lift | Rank | vs median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BrowseComp | 11.1 | 50.5 | +39.5 | #7 | −5.9 |
| DeepSearchQA | 38.5 | 73.5 | +34.9 | #8 | −6.8 |
| HLE | 36.4 | 29.6 | −6.9 | #9 | −18.5 |
| Firecrawl Search Bench | 14.7 | 93.9 | +79.2 | #5 | 0.0 |
Cost and speed
$173 per 1,000 questions, model tokens plus Firecrawl credits: 0.8× the median model, 3rd cheapest of 10.
- Time per question
- 755 s
- average, slowest of 10
- Median time
- 508 s
- set-weighted, half take longer
- 90th percentile time
- 1740 s
- set-weighted, 1 in 10 take longer
- Failed
- 2.5%
- of questions, scored 0
GLM 5.3 Flash vs its closest rivals
- Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 61.9, within the margin of error. It costs about the same and takes 156 s per question on average.
- MiniMax M3.1 Flash scores 64.8, clearly ahead. It costs 1.2× as much and takes 407 s per question on average.
- Mercury 3 scores 68.7, clearly ahead. It costs 1.4× as much and takes 214 s per question on average.
- Ranks count only the models clearly ahead, so models too close to call share a rank. How we tested →
- What score and lift mean →What is Firecrawl Alexandria? →Firecrawl search docs →
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