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Glm 5p3 Flash Us vs Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
This page is context-first: how much text each model can take in one request. Full specs adds capabilities and limits; the pricing matrix below is only about $/million tokens from hosts that list both models.
Model
Glm 5p3 Flash Us
Context window
1.0M
1,048,576 tokens · ~786K words
Model
Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
Context window
131K
131,072 tokens · ~98K words
Context window · side by side
Bar length is relative to the larger of the two windows (100% = max of this pair). This is not pricing.
Glm 5p3 Flash Us has about 8× the context window of the other in this pair.
Glm 5p3 Flash Us has 700% more context capacity (1048K vs 131K tokens). Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is 20% cheaper on input.
Quick verdicts
Short takeaways — validate with your own workloads.
Long document processing
Use Glm 5p3 Flash Us. Its 1048K context fits entire documents without chunking (vs 131K).
RAG / high-volume retrieval
Use Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking. Input tokens are 20% cheaper — critical when sending large retrieved contexts.
Full specs
Context, output, capabilities, and dates. Green highlights the favorable value where we compute a winner.
| Spec | Glm 5p3 Flash Us | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens (1048K) | 131,072 tokens (131K) |
| Max output tokens | N/A | 32,768 tokens (32K) |
| Speed tier | Fast | Fast |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Function calling | Yes | Yes |
| Extended thinking | No | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | No |
| Batch API | No | No |
| Release date | N/A | Oct 2025 |
Pricing matrix
Dollar rates only: hosts that list both models, per 1M tokens. For how much text fits, use the context section above — not this table.
| Provider | Glm 5p3 Flash Us in | Glm 5p3 Flash Us out | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking in | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fireworks | $0.225/M | $0.750/M | — | — |
| Openrouter | — | — | $0.180/M | $2.10/M |
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