Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Overall
70
vs
Overall
35

Claude Haiku 5.5 is clearly better. It wins 73 of the 80 test cases where they differ.

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Task by task

A score turns orange only when that model wins clearly more of the task's test cases. Under each score, the average time per test case on the machine it ran on. Claude Haiku 5.5 spends 1.2× as many thinking tokens per test case.

Thinking tokensAnswer tokens
TaskAB
Overall
7025.5s
3.9K, 78% thinking2.8K, 89% thinking
3555.5s
Agents
6139.5s
3.7K, 61% thinking607, 81% thinking
1037.0s
Structured Extraction
9013.5s
2.6K, 83% thinking2.7K, 93% thinking
4847.2s
Coding
8630.6s
6.8K, 76% thinking5.3K, 83% thinking
541m 52s
Grounded Answers
7613.9s
2.2K, 78% thinking2.9K, 93% thinking
3756.8s
Instruction Following
9431.5s
4.3K, 82% thinking2K, 77% thinking
4340.8s
Business Logic
6726.0s
5.5K, 95% thinking5.8K, 98% thinking
331m 18s
Security & permissions
6723.4s
2.7K, 70% thinking963, 81% thinking
5525.2s
Diagnosis & investigation
1725.5s
2.3K, 50% thinking563, 63% thinking
027.0s

What you'd run

The build behind each score. Orange marks the faster, smaller, cheaper or longer-context side.

SpecAB
Speed
225 tok/s (better)
60 tok/s
Machine
Hosted
Hosted
Memory at 32K
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Context
1M
1M
Cost per run
$0.42
$0.19 (better)
Cost per case
$0.0028
$0.0013 (better)
Time per case
25.5s (better)
55.5s
Quantization
—
FP8
Harness
openrouter
openrouter

The race

No lead changes

Each model's running score as the test cases go by. The dashed line is a perfect run.

Claude Haiku 5.5GLM 5.3 Flash
025507510050100150Perfect run7035

Every test case

153 test cases

Each square is one test case, colored by the model that scored higher.

73 won by Claude Haiku 5.57 won by GLM 5.3 Flash73 tied