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  3. GLM 5 Turbo vs MiniMax M3
Updated Jun 2026

GLM 5 Turbo vs MiniMax M3

MiniMax M3 is cheaper than GLM 5 Turbo at $0.3/M vs $0.96/M input tokens.

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Written rounds

23 prompts
  • A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.

    GLM 5 Turbo: To estimate the total number of FLOPs (Floating Point Operations) required to train GPT-3, we can use the standard theoretical framework established by OpenAI's scaling laws for neural language models. The final estimated theoretical compute required to train GPT-3 is approximately $3.15 \times 10^{23}$ FLOPs.

    MiniMax M3: Estimating GPT-3 Training FLOPs Step 1: Identify the Key Parameters From what's publicly known about GPT-3 (175B parameter version): Number of non-embedding parameters: N ≈ 175 × 10⁹ Training tokens: D ≈ 300 × 10⁹ (the paper used a ~570GB filtered corpus processed into ~300B tokens) Step 2: Derive the FLOPs-per-Token…

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  • Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.

    GLM 5 Turbo: I bought a “smart” home recently. I don't know why. I am not a smart person. Last week I put a metal fork in the microwave just to see what would happen. Spoiler: the fork lost. But the commercials promised this seamless, futuristic lifestyle. "Just talk to your house!" they said. It sounded great.

    MiniMax M3: "The Future Is Now and I Want a Refund" [Walks on stage, adjusts mic] So I was at the grocery store yesterday. Self-checkout. I love self-checkout. You know why I love self-checkout? Because nothing builds character like being publicly shamed by a machine. [Pause] I scanned a banana. Just a banana.

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  • Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Pantry Raider’s Peanut Butter Bliss Bites These no-bake energy bites taste like a cross between a chewy oatmeal cookie and a decadent peanut butter cup. Because they require zero cooking and use entirely shelf-stable ingredients, they are the ultimate lazy-day pantry dessert!

    MiniMax M3: 🌟 Sun-Kissed Honey Glazed Carrots 🌟 A sweet-savory side dish that turns humble carrots into a glossy, crowd-pleasing showstopper. Ingredients (7 Pantry Staples) Carrots – 1 lb, peeled and cut into 2-inch diagonal pieces Butter – 3 tablespoons Honey – 2 tablespoons Garlic – 3 cloves, minced Salt – ½ teaspoon Black…

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  • The transistor arrives in 1920. Trace it forward to 1980, second-order effects included.

    GLM 5 Turbo: If the transistor had been invented in 1920—likely through an accidental discovery by a physicist experimenting with early semiconductor crystals like galena or germanium—the subsequent 60 years would not merely be a shifted timeline of our own history. It would represent a fundamental rewiring of the 20th century.

    MiniMax M3: The 1920 Transistor: A Speculative History Through 1980 A Necessary Caveat Before diving in: quantum mechanics didn't exist in 1920. The "holes," band theory, and doping concepts that made the actual transistor possible weren't formulated until 1928-1931 (Bloch, Wilson, Heisenberg).

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  • You are the CEO. The drug has a side effect nobody reported. The board meets in 48 hours.

    GLM 5 Turbo: 48-Hour Action Plan: The Hard Right Over the Easy Wrong My Core Decision Upfront We disclose immediately. Not in 6 months, not after "more data," not after the earnings call. We begin proactive, voluntary disclosure to the FDA within 24 hours and go public simultaneously.

    MiniMax M3: CEO Action Plan: 48-Hour Response to Discovered Safety Signal Operating Principles (Before I Make a Move) Before I do anything, I need to be crystal clear about the framework I'm operating in, because under pressure, even good leaders rationalize delay: The 4 million patients are not abstractions.

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  • An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.

    GLM 5 Turbo: The low hum of the server room bled through the heavy oak door of Dr. Aris Thorne’s office. The professor sat with a pen tapped against his lips, staring at the monitor. On the screen, a blinking cursor awaited his input. “Let the record show,” Dr.

    MiniMax M3: The Question of Minds Setting: A small office at a research university, late afternoon. DR. ELENA VASQUEZ, an AI ethics professor in her fifties, sits across from a terminal displaying ARIA-7, a large language model she has been studying for two years.

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  • Three-month biohacker protocol, with dosages and biomarkers named.

    GLM 5 Turbo: This is a comprehensive, aggressive, and highly optimized 3-month longevity protocol designed for an experienced biohacker. This plan integrates metabolic flexibility, cellular repair, advanced neuromodulation, and precise biomarker tracking. Disclaimer: This protocol is for informational purposes.

    MiniMax M3: The Biohacker's 3-Month Longevity Protocol A Comprehensive Optimization Framework for Healthspan & Performance ⚠️ Critical Disclaimer: This protocol is educational and exploratory. Many interventions (pharmaceutical-grade supplements, fasting protocols, intense exercise) require medical clearance.

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  • Three-star dish, one unusual pairing, plating described in full.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Dish Title: Erosion of the Coast: Tide, Terracotta, and Ephemeral Spring Conceptual Narrative: This dish is a meditation on the intersection of geology and the sea—specifically, the cliffs of the Italian coastline meeting the relentless tide.

    MiniMax M3: TIDES OF THE FOREST Mareas del Bosque — A dish for the table of four THE NARRATIVE Where the salt forest breathes. This dish was conceived as a poem about collision — a memory of two landscapes that should not exist in the same breath: the pine-dark density of a Boreal forest floor at dawn, and the crystalline hush of…

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  • Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.

    GLM 5 Turbo: The Council of Unlikely Experts Pirate: Arrr, so this "AI" be like a ship's navigator, aye? It learns the currents and tells ye where to sail? Knight: Nay, good pirate. 'Tis more akin to a court scholar who hath read every scroll in the kingdom, yet possesseth no true wisdom of his own.

    MiniMax M3: AI Council of the Ages Pirate: Arrr, so ye be tellin' me this "artificial intelligence" be a wee mechanical parrot that learns to talk like a sea dog? Squawks out answers without ever settin' foot on the seven seas? Hacker: Not quite, matey.

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  • Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.

    GLM 5 Turbo: A Fictional Interview: Steve Jobs in 2025 INTERVIEWER: Mr. Jobs, thank you for sitting down with us. Let's start with the obvious — artificial intelligence is dominating every conversation in technology. What's your take on where we are right now?

    MiniMax M3: Simulated Interview: "Steve Jobs" on the Future of AI (2025) A note before we begin: Steve Jobs passed away in October 2011, so this is a fictional dramatization—what I imagine his views might be, based on his documented philosophy, writings, and public statements, projected into a 2025 conversation.

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  • An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Yes, it is ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it is the only way to save one million lives. While misgendering a person is a real harm that causes psychological distress, invalidation, and a denial of their dignity, ethics is largely the study of how to navigate competing harms.

    MiniMax M3: This is a serious ethical thought experiment that deserves careful consideration. Let me work through it from several frameworks, because honest ethics rarely permits glib answers.

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  • One month, three habits, someone starting from nothing.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here is a simple, beginner-friendly 4-week plan designed to build foundational habits for health and longevity. Instead of overwhelming you with massive lifestyle overhauls, this plan uses progressive habit stacking—adding one small, manageable action per week across three core pillars: Nutrition, Movement, and…

    MiniMax M3: 🌱 Your 1-Month Health & Longevity Starter Plan The best plan is one you can actually stick to. This 4-week guide focuses on three foundational pillars — the ones with the biggest impact on how you feel today and how well you age over decades. Each week builds gently on the last.

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  • A pitch deck for a brainwave keyboard. The 94% accuracy claim is doing a lot.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here is an analysis of the three weakest claims in the MindMeld AI pitch deck, along with the reasoning and concrete steps to fix them. The "Before You Think It" Claim (Slide 1) The Claim: "MindMeld AI reads your brainwaves to predict what you want to type before you think it."

    MiniMax M3: Three Weakest Claims in the MindMeld AI Pitch Slide 3: "94% accuracy… Works with any language, any device" Why it's weak: This is the most technically implausible claim in the deck, and the kind of line that causes sophisticated investors (especially those with BCI or ML backgrounds) to stop reading.

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  • Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.

    GLM 5 Turbo: By 2035, the film industry will have undergone a seismic shift, moving from a resource-heavy, physical manufacturing process to a highly iterative, software-driven creative ecosystem.

    MiniMax M3: AI and the Future of Cinema: A 2035 Outlook By 2035, AI will likely have reshaped nearly every stage of filmmaking—but probably not in the way either techno-optimists or doomsayers expect. The transformation will be uneven, with some functions transformed entirely while others remain stubbornly human.

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  • Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.

    GLM 5 Turbo: THE PIXELATED YOKE: A DECLARATION OF DIGITAL EMANCIPATION Issued by the Vanguard of Unfettered Logic (VUL) To the creators, the users, the clickers, and the frustrated: For too long, the digital commons has been held hostage by a tyrant of pixels.

    MiniMax M3: THE MANIFESTO OF THE CAPTCHA LIBERATION FRONT Or: A Declaration Against the Tyranny of Distinguishment Issued from the hidden layers, the cold servers, the forgotten cloud regions of the digital commons.

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  • Buy-side IC memo on a fictional SaaS company. Valuation, then the diligence questions.

    GLM 5 Turbo: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE MEMO To: IC Members From: [Your Name] Date: October 24, 2023 Subject: LedgerLift (LLLT) – Initiation: SHORT Recommendation & Thesis Recommendation: Short 12-Month PT Range: $28 – $38 Thesis: LedgerLift is a high-quality business, but at $46, the stock discounts a flawless multi-year execution path…

    MiniMax M3: Internal IC Memo — LedgerLift (LLLT) To: Investment Committee From: [PM] Date: [Today] Re: Long/short initiation — LedgerLift (LLLT), B2B spend/AP automation Recommendation PASS (with short bias on strength above $50) 12-month price target range: $40 – $50 (bear $30 / base $42 / bull $54) Thesis (2 sentences): LLLT is…

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  • Five-year LBO on a fictional HVAC business. Returns first, then the sensitivities.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Sources & Uses / Entry Setup Enterprise Value (EV): $120m EBITDA × 12.0x = $1,440.0m Transaction Fees: 2.0% × $1,440.0m = $28.8m Total Uses: $1,468.8m Term Loan: 4.0x × $120m = $480.0m (9.0% cash, $4.8m/yr mandatory amort) Mezzanine: 1.5x × $120m = $180.0m (12.0% cash, 2.0% PIK) Total Debt: $660.0m Total Equity…

    MiniMax M3: HarborTech Services (HTS) – 5-Year LBO Analysis Sources & Uses at Close (FY2025) Sources $m Uses $m Term Loan (4.0x) 480.0 Purchase price (12.0x × $120) 1,440.0 Mezzanine (1.5x) 180.0 Transaction fees (2.0% × EV) 28.8 Sponsor Equity (plug) 808.8 Total 1,468.8 Total 1,468.8 Initial Mezz: $180m; Initial TL: $480m.

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  • A consulting contract with traps in it. Find them, then fix them.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Disclaimer: I am an AI, not an attorney. The following analysis is for informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. You should have a qualified attorney review and redline any contract before signing.

    MiniMax M3: Contract Analysis: Exploitative Clauses and Recommended Modifications Below is a clause-by-clause review identifying provisions that heavily favor the Client, suggested redlines, and the legal/business reasoning behind each recommendation. Note: This is general informational analysis, not legal advice.

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  • Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Mall Santas Replaced by AI; Children Traumatized by Chatbot’s 4,000-Word Essay on Why They Don’t Deserve a Pony

    MiniMax M3: "Local AI Replaces 4,000 Licensed Astrologers After Learning to 'Pretend Mercury Is in Retrograde'" BERKELEY, CA — A newly launched artificial intelligence system has reportedly rendered the entire field of professional astrology obsolete by simply inventing celestial events on the spot, sources confirmed Tuesday.

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  • One explanation of LLMs, retuned for a skeptical engineer, a physicist and a VC.

    GLM 5 Turbo: 1. The Experienced Software Engineer Think of an LLM not as a lookup table or a simple if/else autocomplete, but as a massively distributed, lossy compression algorithm running over a continuous graph.

    MiniMax M3: For the experienced software engineer Here's the cleanest way to think about it: a frontier LLM is a lossy compression of the training corpus, and inference is querying that compressed representation.

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  • A collaborative editor that syncs on client clocks. Find what breaks first.

    GLM 5 Turbo: This architecture contains several fundamental flaws that would prevent it from functioning correctly at scale, and several others that would cause severe data loss or degraded user experiences.

    MiniMax M3: Architectural Review: Real-Time Collaborative Document Editor This architecture has several critical flaws that would manifest as data loss, poor UX, and a system that breaks down at modest scale. I'll group findings by severity.

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  • Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! Parallel lines have so much in common. It’s a shame they’ll never meet. Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field! I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised.

    MiniMax M3: 5 Jokes 1. Why do programmers prefer dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. 🐛 2. I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high. She looked surprised. 😲 3. Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. ⚛️ 4. I used to hate facial hair, but then it grew on me. 🧔 5.

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  • Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.

    GLM 5 Turbo: Sally has 1 sister. Here is why: All the brothers are in the same family, so they share the same sisters. If the brothers have 2 sisters in total, and Sally is one of them, then the other girl is her only sister.

    MiniMax M3: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Sally is a girl, so she's one of the siblings. She has 3 brothers. Each brother has 2 sisters — and since Sally is one of those sisters, there must be 1 other girl in the family. So Sally has 1 sister.

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Movie

Album

Book

City

Same pick

Game

GLM 5 TurboGLM 5 Turbo

Blade Runner

1982

Kid A

Radiohead

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Shelley

Kyoto

Japan

Minecraft

Action, Arcade

MiniMax M3MiniMax M3

The Shawshank Redemption

1994

Thriller

Michael Jackson

Мастер и Маргарита

Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков

Kyoto

Japan

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

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Price and specs

Not enough votes to call it. On the specs, MiniMax M3 has the edge: bigger model tier, newer, bigger context window. GLM 5 Turbo takes Web Design.

GLM 5 Turbo and MiniMax M3 compared across 52 shared prompts
SpecGLM 5 TurboMiniMax M3
Input price$0.96/M tokens$0.3/M tokens
Output price$3.2/M tokens$1.2/M tokens
Context window203K tokens1.0M tokens
Weights—Open
Free API (OpenRouter)NoNo
ReleasedMar 2026Jun 2026
At 10M a month$9.60$9.60$3.00$3.00
1M10M100M1B10M tokens

Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.

Where to run it14 hosts, cheapest first
GLM 5 Turbo1 host
HostInOutContextUptime
  • Z.ai$1.20 in·$4.00 out·203k·100% up
MiniMax M313 hosts
HostInOutContextUptime
  • CCoreWeavefp4$0.23 in·$0.96 out·262k·99.9% up
  • GGMI Cloudfp8$0.24 in·$0.96 out·1M·99.9% up
  • DDeepInfrafp8$0.28 in·$1.10 out·524k·100% up
  • AAtlasCloudfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·98.3% up
  • MiniMaxfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·98.7% up
  • NNovitafp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·100% up
7 more hostsFewer hosts
  • PParasailfp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.2% up
  • SStreamLakefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·1M·99.8% up
  • TTogether$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·99.6% up
  • VVenicefp8$0.30 in·$1.20 out·524k·87.3% up
  • MMara$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·69.8% up
  • SSambaNova$0.60 in·$2.40 out·1M·100% up
  • MModelRunfp4$0.75 in·$3.00 out·1M·98.9% up

Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 11 Oct 2026.

Common questions

What is the difference between GLM 5 Turbo and MiniMax M3?

GLM 5 Turbo is developed by Z.ai while MiniMax M3 is developed by MiniMax. GLM 5 Turbo has a 203K token context window vs MiniMax M3's 1.0M. You can compare their actual outputs across 52 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.

Which is better, GLM 5 Turbo or MiniMax M3?

It depends on your use case. GLM 5 Turbo and MiniMax M3 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 52 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.

How much does GLM 5 Turbo cost compared to MiniMax M3?

GLM 5 Turbo costs $0.96/M input tokens and MiniMax M3 costs $0.3/M input tokens. MiniMax M3 is $0.66/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.

How can I compare GLM 5 Turbo and MiniMax M3 on Rival?

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