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Voxtral Small 24B 2507 vs GLM 5.3 Flash

Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.

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Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.

Voxtral Small 24B 2507 does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.

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Voxtral Small 24B 2507

Blended / 1M
$0.150
Context
33K
Released
Oct 30, 2025
Overall score
Not evaluated
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GLM 5.3 Flash

Blended / 1M
$0.237
Context
1.3M
Released
Aug 26, 2026
Overall score
71.6
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Specs and pricing

MetricVoxtral Small 24B 2507GLM 5.3 Flash
LiveBench overall

Mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better.

71.6
Cost per point

Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability.

$0.0161
Blended price / 1M

3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic.

$0.150win$0.237
Input price / 1M$0.100win$0.150
Output price / 1M$0.300win$0.500
Cached input / 1M

Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one.

$0.010win$0.050
Context window33K1.3Mwin
Max output tokens26K944Kwin

Benchmarks by category

An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — Voxtral Small 24B 2507 on top, GLM 5.3 Flash below, both out of 100.

Agentic coding
56.8
Coding
79.0
Reasoning
77.6
Mathematics
81.2
Data analysis
76.4
Language
77.3
Instruction following
52.8

What each one costs to run

Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.

WorkloadVoxtral Small 24B 2507GLM 5.3 Flash
Support chatbot

1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests

$41.52/mo$68.80/mo
RAG assistant

8K in / 600 out × 100K requests

$62.00/mo$110.00/mo
Coding agent

40K in / 4K out × 20K requests

$53.60/mo$104.00/mo
Document extraction

20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests

$118.00/mo$182.50/mo
Bulk classification

500 in / 20 out × 5M requests

$235.00/mo$375.00/mo
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Which should you pick?

You need to fit large documents in one call

GLM 5.3 Flash

Wider context window — 1.3M against 33K.

You are cost-constrained

Voxtral Small 24B 2507

Cheaper on blended list price at $0.150 per million tokens.

Voxtral Small 24B 2507 vs GLM 5.3 Flash FAQ

Which is better, Voxtral Small 24B 2507 or GLM 5.3 Flash?

Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. Voxtral Small 24B 2507 does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.

Is Voxtral Small 24B 2507 cheaper than GLM 5.3 Flash?

Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Voxtral Small 24B 2507 lists at $0.150 per million tokens and GLM 5.3 Flash at $0.237 — Voxtral Small 24B 2507 is 1.6× cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — Voxtral Small 24B 2507 charges $0.100 in and $0.300 out, GLM 5.3 Flash charges $0.150 and $0.500 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.

Does Voxtral Small 24B 2507 or GLM 5.3 Flash have a bigger context window?

GLM 5.3 Flash has the larger context window: 33K for Voxtral Small 24B 2507 against 1.3M for GLM 5.3 Flash. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.

Do Voxtral Small 24B 2507 and GLM 5.3 Flash support prompt caching?

Both publish a cached-input rate: $0.010 per million for Voxtral Small 24B 2507 and $0.050 for GLM 5.3 Flash, against full input rates of $0.100 and $0.150. On a workload with a long stable prefix — a system prompt, a tool schema, a retrieved corpus — that changes the economics more than the headline price does.

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How these numbers are produced

  • Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
  • ScoresLiveBench release 2026-06-25, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
  • Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
  • “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.

Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.