Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 87 to 35. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 82.3 against 14.6. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 85 to 14.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is the reasoning model in the pair, while GLM-4.5-Air is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark gives you the larger context window at 256K, compared with 128K for GLM-4.5-Air.
Pick GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-4.5-Air only becomes the better choice if you would rather avoid the extra latency and token burn of a reasoning model.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
85.6
GLM-4.5-Air
30.3
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
82.3
GLM-4.5-Air
14.6
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
88.3
GLM-4.5-Air
39.6
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
92.7
GLM-4.5-Air
42.6
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
78.3
GLM-4.5-Air
31.1
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
92
GLM-4.5-Air
68
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
90.8
GLM-4.5-Air
59.1
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark
96.7
GLM-4.5-Air
44.4
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark is ahead overall, 87 to 35. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 85 and 14.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.3 versus 31.1. Inside this category, MMLU is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 82.3 versus 14.6. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 96.7 versus 44.4. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 92.7 versus 42.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 85.6 versus 30.3. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 88.3 versus 39.6. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 92 versus 68. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 90.8 versus 59.1. Inside this category, MMLU-ProX is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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