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Qwen 3.8 Flash Next vs GLM 5.3

Both are SOTA right now. Each row below is one board’s call on the two, and the marked figure is the one that board places higher. No row is added to another, so there is no overall winner: the boards measure different things, and where they split, that is the finding.

Board Qwen 3.8 Flash Next GLM 5.3
Artificial Analysis LLM Leaderboard Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index 39.8 No. 24 of 372 44.8 No. 15 of 372
Arena — Agent Overall -0.007 No. 35 of 49 0.024 No. 24 of 49
Artificial Analysis Coding Agents Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index — 0.536 No. 14 of 22
Arena — Code Overall 1637 No. 16 of 109 1623 No. 20 of 109
Arena — Text Overall (style control) — 1478 No. 27 of 306

Each rank is the board’s own: the rank it publishes, or its place in its own order where it publishes none. The bar is how much of that board the model is ahead of. Scores from different boards cannot be compared.

At a glance

Developer Alibaba Z AI
Weights open closed
Released 2026-08-262026-08-18
Price Blended Price, USD per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output) $0.23$2.15
Value: where it sits on the kill line SOTA SOTA

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next →GLM 5.3 → How the kill line is drawn →

Qwen 3.8 Flash Next against the other SOTA models

GLM 5.3 against the other SOTA models