DeepSeek vs GLM vs Hy4: one dev's take on China's crowded model field
IlovedamemesUwU · reddit · 2026-11-04
A developer compares three Chinese models in daily use:
- Hy4: just released and free; much better than its preview at long-running tasks and real work scenarios, with noticeably faster reasoning
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: the author's daily coding agent — cheap and handles anything, but code often has mistakes and needs several rounds of iteration
- GLM 5.3 Flash: strong at understanding and communication, much better at task execution than the old version, but still weak at creative writing (the author occasionally falls back to GLM 4.6); mainly used as a coding model
The author wonders whether these differences matter day-to-day, or whether you need a dedicated model per task.
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