GLM-5.3 vs. GLM-5.3 Flash on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
Source
www.together.ai
Date
Terms in this piece · Glossary
distillation — Training a small, cheap model to imitate a big one's outputs, keeping much of the capability at a fraction of the cost.
Why it matters
A measured case for cascade routing in coding agents: run the cheap model first and escalate only when tests fail, for 80.9% solved at $1.70 against 69.0% at $3.99 — with a regression run to catch Flash breaking already-passing tests.
