Mercury 2.5 vs GLM 5.3

One line per model: the best value available from any of its providers at each point, which is what a caller routing to the healthy endpoint would see.

CompareMercury 2.5GLM 5.3


Mercury 2.5	1/1	100% Inception	100% Inception	100% Inception	2.27s Inception	9.89s Inception	328 tps Inception	260K	$0.040 / $0.150 Inception
GLM 5.3	25/40	100% AkashML	99.98% Friendli	99.94% Sail Research	362ms Together	2.10s AkashML	122 tps Together	1.3M	$0.700 / $2.20 StreamLake

Measured 1m ago. Each figure is the best available across that model's providers.

History

Availability

Best uptime available from any provider. Axis starts at 90%; it expands to 0 when a model falls below.

Time to first token

Fastest P50 available from any provider. Logarithmic axis.

Throughput

Best median tokens per second available.