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DeepSeek V4 Flash vs GLM 4.5

Side by side · benchmarks, pricing, and signals you can act on.

Winner summary

DeepSeek V4 Flash wins 1 of 1 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena.

Category leads
arena·DeepSeek V4 Flash
Hype vs Reality
DeepSeek V4 Flash
#31 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GLM 4.5
#23 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
10.8x better value than GLM 4.5
DeepSeek V4 Flash
533.3 pts/$
$0.13/M
GLM 4.5
49.4 pts/$
$1.40/M
Vendor risk
One or more vendors flagged
DeepSeek logo
DeepSeek
$3.4B·Tier 1
Higher risk
z-ai logo
z-ai
private · undisclosed
Unknown
Head to head
DeepSeek V4 FlashGLM 4.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
DeepSeek V4 Flash leads by +22.9
DeepSeek V4 Flash
1433.8
GLM 4.5
1410.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashGLM 4.5
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1433.81410.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
DeepSeek logoDeepSeek V4 Flash$0.08$0.171.0M tokens (~524 books)$1.05
z-ai logoGLM 4.5$0.60$2.20131K tokens (~66 books)$10.00