DeepSeek V3 vs GLM-5

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	DeepSeek V3 Open-weights model with strong reasoning at very low inference cost.	GLM-5 Zhipu AI's MIT-licensed 744B-parameter MoE model targeting complex systems engineering and agentic tasks.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	open source	open source
Pricing	free	free
Strengths	+ Open weights + Very low inference cost + Strong reasoning benchmarks	+ MIT-licensed open weights + Designed specifically for agentic and tool-use workloads + Sparse attention architecture reduces long-context serving cost + 40B active parameters keep inference cost moderate for its class
Tradeoffs	− Geopolitical considerations for some enterprises	− 744B total parameters still demand multi-GPU infrastructure to self-host − Smaller first-party API ecosystem than DeepSeek or Alibaba
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