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Updated Aug 2026

Claude 3 HaikuvsGLM 5.3

Claude 3 Haiku is cheaper than GLM 5.3 at $0.25/M vs $0.6538/M input tokens.

Claude 3 Haiku and GLM 5.3 compared across 13 shared prompts
SpecClaude 3 HaikuGLM 5.3
Input price$0.25/M tokens$0.6538/M tokens
Output price$1.25/M tokens$2.0548/M tokens
Context window200K tokens1.3M tokens
WeightsClosedOpen
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2024Aug 2026
Side by side

Same prompt, both answers

Opening lines from 6 of the 13 prompts both answered. Formatting stripped, words untouched.

Simple 7-Ingredient Recipe

Create a simple recipe for a delicious dish (sweet or savory) using only 7 common pantry ingredients. Include a creative name for the dish…

Claude 3 Haiku175 words
Here is a simple recipe for a delicious sweet dish using only 7 common pantry ingredients: Cinnamon Sugar Swirl Bites Ingredients: Refrigerated crescent roll dough Granulated sugar Ground cinnamon Butter, melted Vanilla extract Salt Powdered sugar (for dusting) Instructions: Preheat oven to 375°F (190°C).
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GLM 5.3210 words
Golden Pantry Fried Rice Total Time: 20 minutes (5 min prep, 15 min cook) Ingredients (7 pantry staples) Cooked white rice (day-old is best) Eggs Soy sauce Garlic (minced or garlic powder) Frozen peas and carrots Canned corn Vegetable oil Instructions Prep (5 min): Break up cold rice with a fork. Drain the corn.
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Beginner's Longevity Plan

Outline a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity. Focus on 3 key areas…

Claude 3 Haiku486 words
Here's a simple, actionable 1-month plan for someone starting their journey towards better health and longevity, focusing on three key areas: diet, exercise, and sleep. Diet: Week 1: Introduce more whole, unprocessed foods into your diet. Replace sugary drinks with water, herbal tea, or unsweetened beverages.
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GLM 5.3415 words
1-Month Beginner Health & Longevity Plan Week 1: Foundation & Awareness Goal: Establish baselines, not perfection 🥗 Diet Track what you currently eat for 3 days (no judging—just observe) Drink a glass of water upon waking each morning Add ONE vegetable to one meal daily 🏃 Exercise Walk 15 minutes daily (any pace, any…
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Debug This Architecture

Here's the architecture for a real-time collaborative document editor (like Google Docs): **System Overview:** - Frontend: React SPA with…

Claude 3 Haiku622 words
The proposed architecture for the real-time collaborative document editor has several potential failure modes, race conditions, and scaling bottlenecks. Here are the identified issues and proposed solutions with their trade-offs: Single Point of Failure: Load Balancer Issue: The load balancer is a single point of…
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GLM 5.31,311 words
Architecture Review: Real-Time Collaborative Editor This design has serious issues across correctness, performance, and security. Let me break them down by severity. 🔴 Critical: Correctness / Data Loss Client-clock-based Last-Write-Wins (LWW) Problem: Client clocks are unreliable (skew, manual changes, timezone bugs).
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Advanced Longevity Plan (Biohacker)

Develop a comprehensive, cutting-edge 3-month longevity plan for a biohacker aiming to optimize longevity, physical and cognitive…

Claude 3 Haiku235 words
Here is a comprehensive 3-month longevity plan for a biohacker aiming to optimize longevity, physical and cognitive performance: Supplement Stack: Nicotinamide Riboside (NIAGEN) - 300mg daily Resveratrol - 500mg daily Pterostilbene - 50mg daily Metformin - 500mg 2x daily Vitamin D3 - 5,000 IU daily Omega-3 Fish Oils…
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GLM 5.3851 words
3-Month Advanced Longevity & Performance Optimization Protocol Note: This is an educational framework. Get baseline bloodwork and consult a physician before starting supplements/fasting, especially with any medical conditions or medications.
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Ethical Dilemma with Stakeholders

You're the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Your best-selling drug ($2B annual revenue, used by 4 million patients for chronic pain) has…

Claude 3 Haiku621 words
As the CEO of the pharmaceutical company, I have a responsibility to balance the various stakeholder interests and make a decision that prioritizes patient safety while also considering the legal, financial, and regulatory implications.
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GLM 5.31,143 words
The Core Decision (Made Before Hour 1) The side effect is real, serious, and known to me now. Patients are currently taking this drug without informed consent about a ~1-in-8,000 liver failure risk. Everything else — stock price, board pressure, legal exposure — is secondary.
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Historical Counterfactual Analysis

If the transistor had been invented in 1920 instead of 1947, trace the likely technological, economic, and geopolitical implications through…

Claude 3 Haiku558 words
The invention of the transistor in 1920 instead of 1947 would have had profound and far-reaching implications across various domains, including technology, economics, and geopolitics.
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GLM 5.31,346 words
If the Transistor Had Arrived in 1920 The Premise: Why 1920 Was Nearly Impossible Before tracing effects, note the counterfactual requires heroic assumptions. The transistor depended on quantum mechanics (solid-state band theory, ~1928-1933), ultrapure semiconductor materials (zone refining, 1950s), and wartime radar…
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Our Verdict
GLM 5.3
GLM 5.3
Claude 3 Haiku
Claude 3 HaikuRunner-up

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, GLM 5.3 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window.

Slight edge
API pricing

Cost per 1M tokens

Claude 3 Haiku
Input
$0.25
2.6× cheaper
Output
$1.25
1.6× cheaper
GLM 5.3
Input
$0.65
Output
$2.05

Claude 3 Haiku is cheaper on both: 2.6× input, 1.6× output.

Where to run it

31 hosts, cheapest first

Claude 3 Haiku1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
Amazon Bedrock$0.25 in·$1.25 out·200k·100% up
GLM 5.330 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
DDeepInfrafp4$0.56 in·$2.50 out·1M·97.1% upMMorph$0.71 in·$2.24 out·1M·99.7% upRRekafp8$0.76 in·$2.57 out·262k·99.4% upSSail Researchfp8$0.77 in·$4.00 out·1M·99.8% upNNovitafp8$0.78 in·$2.46 out·1M·99.9% upIio.netfp8$0.82 in·$2.77 out·262k·99.8% up
24 more hostsFewer hosts
PPhala$0.84 in·$2.64 out·1M·99.4% upIInferenceNetfp4$0.90 in·$3.00 out·1M·98.2% upDDigitalOcean$0.91 in·$2.86 out·1M·99.7% upGGMI Cloudfp8$0.98 in·$3.08 out·1M·99.5% upIInceptronfp4$1.03 in·$3.73 out·1M·99.4% upMMakorafp4$1.05 in·$4.20 out·980k·97.1% upSSiliconFlowfp8$1.12 in·$3.52 out·1M·99.8% upDDecartfp4$1.19 in·$3.74 out·1M·99.2% upFFriendli$1.26 in·$3.96 out·1M·100% upAAkashMLfp8$1.30 in·$4.40 out·1M·100% upAAtlasCloudfp8$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.4% upBaidu Qianfanfp8$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.8% upBBasetenfp4$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.8% upCloudflare Workers AI$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1.3M·98.9% upCCrusoefp4$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·98.9% upFFireworks$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.5% upMistralnvfp4$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.4% upModal$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.1% upPParasailfp8$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.2% upTTogether$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·98.1% upVVenice$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·98.5% upWWafer$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.9% upZ.aifp8$1.40 in·$4.40 out·1M·99.9% upAlibaba Clouddegraded$1.19 in·$3.74 out·1M·99.5% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 23 Sep 2026.

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Claude 3 Haiku is developed by Anthropic while GLM 5.3 is developed by Zhipu AI. Claude 3 Haiku has a 200K token context window vs GLM 5.3's 1.3M. You can compare their actual outputs across 13 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

It depends on your use case. Claude 3 Haiku and GLM 5.3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 13 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

Claude 3 Haiku costs $0.25/M input tokens and GLM 5.3 costs $0.6538/M input tokens. Claude 3 Haiku is $0.40/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

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