GLM-5.3 Flash tip: Use 'high' reasoning to save 50% tokens

zainhas · x · 2026-08-28

Benchmarks show GLM-5.3 Flash achieves 28% accuracy on both 'high' and 'max' reasoning effort settings. However, 'max' consumes an average of 140k tokens, while 'high' only uses 70k. For most tasks, setting the parameter to 'high' is sufficient and cuts costs in half.

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