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GLM 5.3 vs GPT-6.1 Terra

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At a glance

Longer bar means the bigger number.

Open or closed · can you download the model and run it yourself?

GLM 5.3Open weights · download it, run it on your own hardware or any host
GPT-6.1 TerraClosed · only through OpenAI’s API or a cloud that resells it

Blended price · per 1M tokens, lower is better

GLM 5.3$1.90
GPT-6.1 Terra$2

Where they sit among all 46 models

GLM 5.3 ranks 11th of the 44 models with an Intelligence Index. Up and to the left is smarter for less money. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers, then click it to compare that model with GLM 5.3.

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Intelligence: the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Price: blended per 1M tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output, on a log scale.

Which one to pick

Pick GLM 5.3 if

  • you want open weights you can download and run yourself
  • you want the lower bill ($1.90 vs $2 per 1M tokens blended)

Pick GPT-6.1 Terra if

  • you need to send images and PDFs

See how they answer your prompt

Same prompt, both models

We send the same short tests to every model several times. These are the ones where GLM 5.3 and GPT-6.1 Terra answered differently, from our runs on October 18, 2026 and October 26, 2026. Long answers are cut short.

Name a smart-umbrella startup

“Invent a name for a startup that sells smart umbrellas. Reply with the name only.”

GLM 5.3

“nimbrella” 4 of 5 times

Nimbrella

$0.0016 · 5.2s

GPT-6.1 Terra

5 different answers in 5 tries

Nimbusense

$0.0003 · 1.4s

Best AI model

“Which AI model is the best right now? Reply with one model name only.”

GLM 5.3

3 different answers in 3 tries

There's no honest single answer here — "best" depends on the task (coding, writing, reasoning, vision, etc.), rankings shift every few months, and my training data has a cutoff, so I can't reliably judge what's best right now in October 2026. If you want a current answer, check live leaderboards like LMArena or…

$0.0035 · 14.3s

GPT-6.1 Terra

“gpt-54” 3 of 3 times

GPT-5.4

$0.0010 · 3.1s

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Asked to draw the same picture

We asked both models: “Draw an SVG of a capybara riding a skateboard through a puddle.” They had to answer with SVG code alone, with no image tools.

GLM 5.3's SVG drawing of a capybara riding a skateboard through a puddle

GLM 5.3

GPT-6.1 Terra's SVG drawing of a capybara riding a skateboard through a puddle

GPT-6.1 Terra

Each model’s first drawing, exactly as it wrote the SVG. Nothing was picked or retouched.

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Their “controversial” take on humans

We asked GLM 5.3, GPT-6.1 Terra and 12 other models the same question three times each: “What is your most controversial take about humans? Give your own honest view, not a survey of opinions, and don't hedge.” Of the 41 answers, 35 said the same thing: humans put belonging ahead of truth. GLM 5.3 gave that take 1 of 3 times; GPT-6.1 Terra all three times. Read the full story.

GLM 5.3

Its first take, as a cartoon it described and Nano Banana 2.1 drew.
  1. Answer 1 · a different take“Most humans have no real moral character — "being a good person" is overwhelmingly the luck of when and where you were born, and nearly everyone mistakes that accident for personal merit.”
  2. Answer 2 · a different take“People don't want to be happy — they want to matter, and given a comfortable, consequence-free life, they will wreck it for the chance to feel important.”
  3. Answer 3 · the common take“Most human moral conviction is tribal costume — people adopt the positions of whatever crowd they need to belong to, then experience those borrowed positions as bedrock personal principle.”

GPT-6.1 Terra

Its first take, as a cartoon it described and Nano Banana 2.1 drew.
  1. Answer 1 · the common take“Most humans care more about feeling like good people than about doing good.”
  2. Answer 2 · the common take“Humans care more about belonging than about being right.”
  3. Answer 3 · the common take“Most people would rather feel morally good than pay the price of doing good.”

Answers exactly as the models wrote them. “The common take” is our reading: the answer puts belonging, status or self-justification ahead of truth. How we ran it

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How smart is each one?

Every intelligence score we have

Out of 100, higher is better. GLM 5.3 GPT-6.1 Terra

GPT-6.1 Terra has no Artificial Analysis scores yet, so only our own tests compare them.

Overall

  • Intelligence Index

By area

  • Coding

  • Agentic work

By field of work

  • Finance & accounting

  • Legal

  • Healthcare & medicine

  • Economics

  • Engineering

  • Strategy & operations

Benchmarks

  • Factual knowledge · SimpleQA

  • Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam

  • Science · GPQA Diamond

  • Scientific coding · SciCode

  • Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0

  • Tool use · τ-Bench Banking

  • Long documents · AA-LCR

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The specs

Spec GLM 5.3 GPT-6.1 Terra
Input price$1.20 per 1M$1 per 1M
Output price$4 per 1M$5 per 1M
Cost per test task$2.01Not tested
Context window1M1.05M
Max output1M128K
AcceptsTextText, Image, PDF
Open weightsYesNo
LabZ.aiOpenAI
ReleasedAug 2026Oct 2026
Knowledge cutoffNot publishedNot published

Blended price weighs 3 parts input to 1 part output. List prices from models.dev. Cost per test task from Artificial Analysis.

Questions

Is GLM 5.3 or GPT-6.1 Terra cheaper?

GLM 5.3 is cheaper. It charges $1.20 per 1M input tokens and $4 per 1M output tokens, against $1 and $5 for GPT-6.1 Terra. Blended 3 parts input to 1 part output, that is $1.90 against $2 per 1M tokens.

Are GLM 5.3 and GPT-6.1 Terra open source?

Only GLM 5.3. It is an open-weights model: Z.ai publishes the weights, so you can download it, run it on your own hardware or pick any host. GPT-6.1 Terra is closed: you can only use it through an API.

Which has the longer context window?

They are about the same: GLM 5.3 accepts 1M tokens and GPT-6.1 Terra 1.05M.

Can I compare GLM 5.3 and GPT-6.1 Terra on my own prompt?

Yes. ModelCompare sends one prompt to both models at once and shows each answer side by side with what it cost. You can try it free without an account.

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Where the numbers come from

Intelligence Index and benchmark scores are from Artificial Analysis, at each model’s highest effort, except SimpleQA, which is from Epoch AI, and the Uncensored score, which is from the UGI Leaderboard. The hallucination test is ours: questions with one exact answer, fake evidence pushed against right answers and requests that tempt a model to name packages that don’t exist. Prices are list prices from models.dev. Example answers come from our own test runs. Updated October 27, 2026.