GLM-5.3 vs. Claude Fable 5 on DeepSWE: Cost, Coding, and Routing
We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5. A tie on pass@1, but GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 and costs 5.4x less: \$3.99 per rollout vs. \$21.63.
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We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and Claude Fable 5. A tie on pass@1, but GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 and costs 5.4x less: \$3.99 per rollout vs. \$21.63.
We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on GLM-5.3 and GPT-5.6 Sol. Sol leads pass@1 by 3.7 points; GLM-5.3 wins pass@4 at half the cost, and a GLM-first cascade hits 85.9%.
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We ran 904 DeepSWE rollouts on DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 and Claude Fable 5. Fable leads pass@1 at 90x the cost; Pro wins pass@4, and a Pro-first cascade hits 82.7%.