Model Comparison
GPT-5.6 Sol vs GLM-5.3 Flash
Too close to call: the best configurations, GPT-5.6 Sol (low) and GLM-5.3 Flash (max), are 78 Elo apart, and their 95% ranges overlap. Among 78 models, each ranked by its best configuration, GPT-5.6 Sol is #8 and GLM-5.3 Flash is #12. Cost per script: $0.113 for GPT-5.6 Sol (low) and $0.022 for GLM-5.3 Flash (max).
Last updated , from board data generated at 01:13 UTC.
Picks and Verdict
PickGPT-5.6 Sol
GPT-5.6 Sol (low)
Pick GPT-5.6 Sol (low) when you're iterating live, at about a minute and $0.113 a script.
PickGLM-5.3 Flash
GLM-5.3 Flash (max)
Pick GLM-5.3 Flash (max) for most scripts at $0.022, about a fifth of the price of GPT-5.6 Sol (low), when a five-minute wait is fine.
The board can't separate anything on this page. GPT-5.6 Sol (low), GPT-5.6 Sol (ultra) and GLM-5.3 Flash (max) sit within 78 Elo of each other, and all three ranges overlap, GLM's only at its top edge. The model ranking has them four places apart, GPT-5.6 Sol the #8 model of 78 and GLM-5.3 Flash the #12 model, each ranked by its best setting. So I'd decide on the bill and the clock. GLM costs $0.022 a script. GPT-5.6 Sol costs $0.113 at low, about five times that, and about 17 times at ultra. Ultra rates 5 Elo below low, inside overlapping ranges, so it's the setting I'd skip. GPT-5.6 Sol earns its price on speed and substance. At low it returns a script in about a minute, where GLM takes about five, and it's about four points ahead on substance. GLM lands much closer to the requested length, seven points ahead of Sol at low, and it follows YouTube structure a little better than either Sol setting. If a five-minute wait is fine, I'd run GLM. If I'm iterating live, I'd run GPT-5.6 Sol at low.
Disclosure: GPT-5.6 Sol and GLM-5.3 Flash each come from the same lab as one of the judges (GPT-6.1 Sol and GLM 5.3 Flash). Neither is scored by its own lab alone (how the panel works). The judge analysis measures how much each judge favors its own lab.
How to Read the Writing Score, Writing Elo and 95% Ranges
Writing Score and Writing Elo. The Writing Score (0 to 100) is the weighted average of the nine metric scores: seven from the judges, Length Adherence from code and the Slop Score half from each. The Writing Elo is a rating from pairwise comparisons: on each script, each configuration's average across its drafts is compared with every other configuration's, and gaps within the draft-to-draft variation count as draws. Elo rewards winning often, so the two can put configurations in a different order.
Elo ranges. Each 95% range shows how far a configuration's Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently. It comes from resampling every configuration's recorded draft scores on each reference script and ranking again. Comparing two separate ranges does not test the Elo gap between them: ranges far apart are strong evidence for the order, and overlapping ranges do not mean a tie. The reference scripts stay fixed, so the ranges say nothing about new scripts. The methodology page has the full description.
All Thinking Levels of Both Models
Every ranked configuration of GPT-5.6 Sol and GLM-5.3 Flash, scored on the same 10 scripts by the same four judges.
- Each row is one configuration: the model at one thinking level. The dot is its Writing Elo, a rating from pairwise comparisons of the scores on each script, and the bar is its 95% range: how far that Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently.
- When two bars overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations. Bars far apart are strong evidence for the order.
- The table under the chart lists the same configurations in the same order and adds the Writing Score (the 0 to 100 consensus of the judges and code), cost, time and configuration rank (the place among all configurations on the board).
Shaded rows are the configurations chosen for the metric comparison below.
| Configuration | Writing Elo | 95% Range | Writing Score | Cost / Script | Time / Script | Reasoning Tokens | Configuration Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPT-5.6 Sol (low) | 2218 | 2181 to 2251 | 82.3 | $0.113 | 0.9 min | N/A | #16 |
| GPT-5.6 Sol (ultra) | 2213 | 2173 to 2266 | 82.3 | $0.367 | 4.1 min | N/A | #18 |
| GLM-5.3 Flash (max) | 2140 | 2093 to 2186 | 81.8 | $0.022 | 5.2 min | 37,224 | #23 |
Cost is one script at the API list price of the route used, uncached and without judging. Time is the average for one accepted script, retries included. N/A under Reasoning Tokens means the board has no separate reasoning count for that route.
Computed Findings Across Thinking Levels
Each finding is computed from the configurations above. Where two 95% ranges overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations.
- Best Configurations Head to Head. GPT-5.6 Sol (low) at Elo 2218 (range 2181 to 2251) and GLM-5.3 Flash (max) at Elo 2140 (range 2093 to 2186) have overlapping 95% ranges, so the board cannot separate the two best configurations.
- Cheapest Configuration Overlapping the Top One. GLM-5.3 Flash (max), at $0.022 per script, is the cheapest configuration whose 95% range overlaps that of GPT-5.6 Sol (low), at $0.113 per script: 2093 to 2186 against 2181 to 2251, so the board cannot separate them. GPT-5.6 Sol (low) costs about 5.1 times as much per script.
- Cheapest GPT-5.6 Sol Configuration Above GLM-5.3 Flash's Best. The cheapest GPT-5.6 Sol configuration with a higher Writing Elo than GLM-5.3 Flash (max), at Elo 2140 and $0.022 per script, is GPT-5.6 Sol (low), at Elo 2218 and $0.113 per script. Their 95% ranges overlap, so the board cannot separate them. It costs about 5.1 times as much per script.
- Lowest to Highest Thinking Level. GPT-5.6 Sol moves -5 Elo from low to ultra, at about 3.2 times the cost per script.
Two Chosen Configurations Compared
Pick one configuration of each model to compare their metric scores, consistency across drafts and per-script scores. Each menu starts on the model's best configuration.
Scores by Metric
GPT-5.6 Sol (low) scores higher on seven of the nine metrics and GLM-5.3 Flash (max) on two. Weighted by each metric's share of the Writing Score, Substance, Accuracy & Value does the most to put GPT-5.6 Sol (low) ahead, with a 4.3-point lead on that metric. The weight beside each metric is its share of the Writing Score.
Consistency Across Drafts
| GPT-5.6 Sol (low) | GLM-5.3 Flash (max) | |
|---|---|---|
| Score spread across drafts (±) | 1.27 | 1.62 |
| Lowest script score | 79.8 Script 4 | 80.3 Script 4 |
| Highest script score | 84.2 Script 9 | 83.8 Script 9 |
| Range across scripts | 4.4 | 3.5 |
Spread is how much the Writing Score moves between a configuration's drafts, and lower is steadier. Green marks the better number in each row.
Scores by Script
Writing Score on each reference script. Gap is GPT-5.6 Sol (low) minus GLM-5.3 Flash (max), and the higher score is in bold.
| Script | GPT-5.6 Sol (low) | GLM-5.3 Flash (max) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script 1 opinion / warning explainer | 82.1 | 81.1 | +1.0 |
| Script 2 news-analysis / skeptical explainer | 82.5 | 81.5 | +1.0 |
| Script 3 personal roadmap / opinion | 82.3 | 81.0 | +1.3 |
| Script 4 short explainer | 79.8 | 80.3 | -0.5 |
| Script 5 news-analysis / opinion explainer | 83.2 | 82.1 | +1.1 |
| Script 6 founder announcement / personal origin story | 82.8 | 82.9 | -0.1 |
| Script 7 personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study | 82.0 | 83.5 | -1.5 |
| Script 8 product release announcement / personal observation | 82.6 | 80.8 | +1.8 |
| Script 9 career guide / hiring analysis | 84.2 | 83.8 | +0.4 |
| Script 10 engineering process walkthrough / presentation adaptation | 82.0 | 81.2 | +0.8 |
Scorecards and Thinking Pages
Each configuration name in the table above opens its own scorecard.
Compare With Another Model
Pick a second model. A pair with its own written match-up opens that page, and any other pair opens in the comparison tool.
Nearby Match-Ups by Best Writing Elo
Every configuration wrote five drafts for each of the same 10 briefs, from the same prompt. Generation was closed-book, with the prompt as the only source and no web search or other tools. Each judge scores every draft once: Claude Opus 5.5 at medium effort through the Claude Code subscription, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium reasoning through the Codex CLI, GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter, and Jev 1.13, a typed judge from TypeSafe that answers each metric as a multiple-choice question. The channel's finished script is their reference for the voice, and it gets no score on the board itself.
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