DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) vs GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI)
Reading a 26.2K-token pull request costs $0.0115 on DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI), 2.9× the $0.0039 it costs on GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI). Both sit in the economy price tier, so the choice between them is about review quality more than budget. The benchmark cannot separate their recall: DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) minus GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) is −12 pts (95% interval −24 pts to 0 pts).
Side by side
| Figure | DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) | GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) |
|---|---|---|
| Price tier | Economy | Economy |
| Bugs caughtshare of known bugs | 49% | 61% (better) |
| False alarmsper clean PR | 1.3 (better) | 1.8 |
| Cost per reviewmeasured | $0.0178 | $0.0035 (better) |
| Cost per bug caught | $0.0309 | $0.0066 (better) |
| Exact linecatches on the expected lines | 88% | 89% (better) |
| Review timemean | 137s (better) | 254s |
| Typical review calllist price | $0.0147 | $0.0051 (better) |
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.44 | $0.15 (better) |
| Output / 1M tokens | $1.32 | $0.50 (better) |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
Head to head
The known bugs both were scored on, by who caught each in at least one run.
By language
| Model | All | TypeScript6 bugs | Go4 bugs | Java4 bugs | Rust4 bugs | C#3 bugs | JavaScript3 bugs | Kotlin3 bugs | PHP3 bugs | Python3 bugs | Ruby3 bugs | Swift3 bugs | C++2 bugs | C1 bug |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) | 49% | 46% | 25% | 55% | 46% | 22% | 56% | 61% | 78% | 61% | 44% | 67% | 50% | 0% |
| GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) | 61% | 57% | 31% | 45% | 88% | 30% | 67% | 89% | 33% | 78% | 67% | 67% | 100% | 67% |
Of the 42 known bugs both were scored on, both caught 28 and neither caught 5. DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) caught 2 bugs that GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) missed: 2 in PHP. GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) caught 7 bugs that DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) missed: 1 in C, 1 in C++, 1 in C#, 1 in JavaScript, 1 in Ruby, 1 in Rust and 1 in TypeScript.
On pull requests with no known bug, DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) raised 1.3 false alarms per review and GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) 1.8. A measured review cost $0.0178 on DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI), 5.0× the cost of $0.0035 on GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI).
| Pull request | Language · kind | DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) | GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI) |
|---|---|---|---|
| doctrine/ormFix collection filtering API for IN/NOT IN comparisons that require type conversions | PHP · Logic | 3/3 | 0/3 |
| symfony/symfony[Security] Allow multiple OIDC discovery endpoints | PHP · Security | 1/3 | 0/3 |
| OrchardCMS/OrchardCoreSimplify using `StringValues` in Liquid templates | C# · Security | 0/3 | 2/3 |
| c-ares/c-aresEvent Thread could stall when not notified of new queries on existing connections that are in a bad state | C · Resource handling | 0/3 | 2/3 |
| ggml-org/llama.cpprpc : cache and reuse compute graphs | C++ · Security | 0/3 | 3/3 |
| nushell/nushellreorganize nushell configuration | Rust · Error handling | 0/4 | 2/4 |
| rails/railsReimplement Action Cable redis adapter with redis-client | Ruby · Logic | 0/3 | 2/3 |
| sindresorhus/p-throttleAdd `weight` option | JavaScript · Logic | 0/3 | 2/3 |
| trpc/trpcfix(server): pass maxDurationMs timeout signal to subscription handlers | TypeScript · Concurrency | 0/1 | 2/3 |
Defects caught over all runs: a PR reviewed three times with one known bug shows 3/3 when it was caught every time.
Every bug each was scored on: DeepSeek V4 Flash (Workers AI) and GLM-5.3 Flash (Workers AI).