Compare Coding Qwen4 Max Preview from Qwen and GLM 5.3 from Z.AI on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Coding Qwen4 Max Preview
GLM 5.3Coding Qwen4 Max Preview offers lower-cost access to Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen4-Max-Preview through the official Token Plan for coding, frontend design, and agentic tasks. Try it out and share your feedback. This preview service may be unstable and is recommended for testing and evaluation.
GLM-5.3 is Z.AI’s coding and agentic reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, long-running agent tasks, vulnerability analysis, and other demanding workloads. Building on GLM-5.2, it incorporates further post-training improvements to deliver stronger coding performance, better task execution, and greater token efficiency. We currently offer the production-ready GLM-5.3 API with unlimited concurrency, making it well suited for high-throughput workloads, coding agents, and large-scale automation. For a limited time, GLM-5.3 is available at 10% off.
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Coding Qwen4 Max Preview: $1.059/M output tokens; GLM 5.3: $3.9438/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
GLM 5.3: 0.7s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
GLM 5.3 at 78.5 tok/s and Coding Qwen4 Max Preview at 72.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Coding Qwen4 Max Preview accepts text, image and video input; GLM 5.3 accepts text input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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