As of August 30, 2026, GLM-5.3-Flash is 59% cheaper per million tokens than Sarvam-105B. GLM-5.3-Flash is $0.15 / $0.50 per million input/output tokens versus Sarvam-105B at $0.80 / $0.80. Sources: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing and https://www.sarvam.ai/
Sources: Z AI pricing (https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing); Sarvam AI pricing (https://www.sarvam.ai/)
GLM-5.3-Flash
Z AI
Input
$0.15
Output
$0.50
Sarvam-105B
Sarvam AI
Input
$0.80
Output
$0.80
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GLM-5.3-FlashSarvam-105BVerdict
GLM-5.3-Flash offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 30, 2026, GLM-5.3-Flash is 59% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens ($0.65 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Sarvam-105B costs $0.80 / $0.80 per million tokens ($1.60 blended). Sources: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing and https://www.sarvam.ai/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
GLM-5.3-Flash Z AI API pricing is $0.15 input and $0.50 output per million tokens via Z AI. Sarvam-105B Sarvam AI API pricing is $0.80 input and $0.80 output per million tokens via Sarvam AI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Sarvam-105B has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 45%. GLM-5.3-Flash does not have that eval on this page yet.
GLM-5.3-Flash supports a 1M token context window, while Sarvam-105B supports 33K tokens. GLM-5.3-Flash offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
GLM-5.3-Flash leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks versus Sarvam-105B's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both GLM-5.3-Flash and Sarvam-105B are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, GLM-5.3-Flash has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call GLM-5.3-Flash through Z AI and Sarvam-105B through Sarvam AI with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published Z AI API pricing and Sarvam AI API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.z.ai/guides/overview/pricing and https://www.sarvam.ai/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
GLM-5.3-Flash supports up to 131K output tokens per request, while Sarvam-105B supports up to an unspecified number of output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Neither GLM-5.3-Flash nor Sarvam-105B has published throughput data on this page yet. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open GLM-5.3-Flash or Sarvam-105B from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. GLM-5.3-Flash costs $0.15/M input and $0.50/M output. Sarvam-105B costs $0.80/M input and $0.80/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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