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Cactus Needle 2 vs GLM-5.3-Flash
Side-by-side specs, pricing & capabilities · Updated September 2026
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| Organization | ||
| OpenTools Score | 75 463 | |
| Family | Needle | GLM |
| Status | Current | Current |
| Release Date | Aug 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Context Window | 256 tokens | 1.3M tokens |
| Input Price | Free | $0.07/M tokens |
| Output Price | Free | $0.25/M tokens |
| Pricing Notes | Apache 2.0 model artifact; runtime cost depends on local hardware, not token API pricing. | OpenRouter lists a limited-time discounted price of $0.075/M input and $0.25/M output. Standard first-party style pricing is commonly $0.15/M input and $0.50/M output; cache-read pricing may vary by provider. |
| Capabilities | tool-usestructured-outputjson-schemadevice-controledge-inferenceoffline | textvisionvideo-inputcodetool-usereasoninglong-contextopen-weights |
| Training Cutoff | — | Not disclosed |
| Max Output | 256 tokens | 131K tokens |
| API Identifier | Cactus-Compute/needle2 | z-ai/glm-5.3-flash |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Mobile Actions Ordered Strict Exact Match | 63.7cactus-compute | — |
| BFCL v4 Single-Turn Overall | 42.6cactus-compute | — |
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v4.1.1 | — | 57artificial-analysis |
| MMLU | — | 88.1official |
| View Cactus Needle 2 | View GLM-5.3-Flash | |
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| Model | Input | Output | Total / mo | vs Best |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cactus Needle 2Cheapest | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | — |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | $0.08 | $0.13 | $0.20 | +0% |
Cactus Compute
Cactus Needle 2
Cactus Needle 2 is a 45M-parameter, 14 MB agentic model for tiny devices. It focuses on tool calling, device control, schema-constrained JSON, and structured extraction; Cactus reports 28 MB session RAM, 800+ tok/s prefill, and 500+ tok/s decode on Raspberry Pi 5.
Z.ai
GLM-5.3-Flash
GLM-5.3-Flash is Z.ai’s open-weight GLM-5 model for efficient coding, long-horizon agent tasks, and long-context multimodal reasoning. It uses a hybrid sparse and linear attention design with 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters.
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