Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct vs GLM 5.3 Flash
GLM 5.3 Flash leads llmrun Score 124.1 to 87.1; neither fits 24 GB.
Run GLM 5.3 Flash in the cloud →
Model A · Meta
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct401.6B · 17B active · Other · Apr 2025
Model B · Z.ai
GLM 5.3 Flash321.3B · 18.3B active · 1M context · MIT · Aug 2026
Choose GLM 5.3 Flash if you want…
Higher llmrun Score
124.1 vs 87.1
Stronger at reasoning
127.4 vs 85.5
Stronger at coding
116.9 vs 80.9
Ahead on the benchmarks
7 of 7 shared boards
Lighter on memory
194.6 vs 265.1 GB at Q4_K_M
Also does function-calling
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct doesn't list it
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct: no clear edge over GLM 5.3 Flash in the data we have.
On your hardware
Each model at its default quant (Q4_K_M), a smaller one when it must. Estimates, ±20%.
8 GB
RTX 4060 · 8 GB tier
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
12 GB
RTX 3060 12GB · 12 GB tier
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
16 GB
RTX 5060 Ti 16GB · 16 GB tier
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
24 GBreference
RTX 4090 · 24 GB tier
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
32 GB
RTX 5090 · 32 GB tier
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
48 GB
RTX A6000 · 48 GB tier
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
Mac 32 GB
Mac Mini M4 · Macs
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
Mac 64 GB
Mac Studio M4 Max · Macs
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 100.7 GB
Mac 128 GB
Mac Studio M4 Max · Macs
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Doesn't fit
smallest quant needs 129.2 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
IQ2_S · ~41 tok/s
112.8 GB · up to 16Kfits
Reference GPU: RTX 4090. Tinted cell = the better pick on that machine (fits, more headroom, or at least 10% faster).
Overall
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
GLM 5.3 Flash
Coding
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
GLM 5.3 Flash
Agents
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
no data
GLM 5.3 Flash
Math
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
no data
GLM 5.3 Flash
Science
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
GLM 5.3 Flash
Reasoning
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
GLM 5.3 Flash
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct · #78 of 106 open models · #74 of 102 that fit ≤512 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash · #12 of 106 open models · #6 of 89 that fit ≤256 GB
Benchmarks
7 shared boards: Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct leads 0, GLM 5.3 Flash leads 7 · Benchmarks imported Nov 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
67.0%#38/100 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
90.1%#11/100 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Aug 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
20.6%#56/88 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
93.9%#11/88 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Aug 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
0.0%#20/22 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
65.8%#3/22 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Aug 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
31.7%#57/72 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
51.6%#11/72 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Aug 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
4.4%#21/22 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
91.0%#4/22 open
IndependentEpoch AI · Aug 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
173.0#48/48 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
303.6#44/48 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Aug 2026
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
0.0%#67/84 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Apr 2025
GLM 5.3 Flash
15.4%#10/84 open
Lab-reportedEpoch AI · Aug 2026
33 more boards (other shared and single-model boards)
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
1327.0#90/188 open
ArenaLMArena · Oct 2026
GLM 5.3 Flash
1476.5#4/188 open
ArenaLMArena · Oct 2026
Only Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct (9)
- Humanity's Last Exam5.7%
- MMLU-Pro80.5%
- Aider Polyglot15.6%
- SimpleBench27.7%
- MATH Level 573.0%
- WeirdML24.5%
- DTBench61.9%
- Fiction.LiveBench46.2%
- LMCA15.9%
Only GLM 5.3 Flash (23)
- LiveBench Coding79.0
- LiveBench Reasoning77.6
- FrontierMath55.8%
- LMArena WebDev1606.6
- LiveBench Math81.2
- FrontierMath Tier 417.1%
- DeepSWE63.4%
- FrontierCode31.8%
- APEX-Agents52.8%
- Chess Puzzles21.0%
- LiveBench 2026 Reasoning77.6
- Mystery Game Puzzles8.0%
- GDP.pdf14.0%
- LiveBench 2026 Browser84.0
- LiveBench 2026 Data Analysis76.4
- CursorBench36.8%
- FrontierSWE18.1%
- LiveBench 2026 Coding80.6
- LiveBench 2026 Long-Horizon28.4
- Surface Evolver Bench52.5%
- LiveBench 2026 Design77.2
- ProofBench21.0%
- LiveBench 2026 Research70.1
VRAM by quantization
Memory to load the model and 2K context; below it, the total at 32K and 128K context. Lighter side in bold.
Q2_K
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
188 GB145.6 GB file
32K 204 GB · 128K 257 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
138 GB114.2 GB file
32K 161 GB · 128K 234 GB
Q3_K_S
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
193 GB172.7 GB file
32K 210 GB · 128K 262 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
Q3_K_M
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
215 GB191.1 GB file
32K 232 GB · 128K 284 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
158 GB149.1 GB file
32K 181 GB · 128K 254 GB
Q4_0
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
221 GB226.8 GB file
32K 237 GB · 128K 290 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
Q4_K_M
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
265 GB242.8 GB file
32K 282 GB · 128K 334 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
195 GB188.7 GB file
32K 217 GB · 128K 290 GB
Q5_K_M
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
315 GB284.5 GB file
32K 331 GB · 128K 384 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
231 GB244.7 GB file
32K 253 GB · 128K 326 GB
Q6_K
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
364 GB328.8 GB file
32K 381 GB · 128K 434 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
267 GB~265.1 GB file
32K 290 GB · 128K 362 GB
Q8_0
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
442 GB425.8 GB file
32K 458 GB · 128K 511 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
323 GB341.0 GB file
32K 346 GB · 128K 418 GB
13 more quants
IQ2_XXS
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
121 GB135.2 GB file
32K 138 GB · 128K 191 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
90.2 GB101.8 GB file
32K 113 GB · 128K 185 GB
IQ2_XS
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
not listed
GLM 5.3 Flash
98.2 GB92.1 GB file
32K 121 GB · 128K 193 GB
IQ2_S
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
not listed
GLM 5.3 Flash
102 GB113.6 GB file
32K 125 GB · 128K 197 GB
IQ2_M
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
149 GB141.2 GB file
32K 166 GB · 128K 218 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
IQ3_XXS
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
171 GB169.3 GB file
32K 188 GB · 128K 240 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
126 GB120.4 GB file
32K 149 GB · 128K 221 GB
IQ3_S
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
not listed
GLM 5.3 Flash
138 GB149.6 GB file
32K 161 GB · 128K 234 GB
IQ3_M
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
not listed
GLM 5.3 Flash
146 GB150.7 GB file
32K 169 GB · 128K 242 GB
IQ4_XS
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
237 GB214.3 GB file
32K 254 GB · 128K 307 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
175 GB156.8 GB file
32K 197 GB · 128K 270 GB
IQ4_NL
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
248 GB225.8 GB file
32K 265 GB · 128K 318 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
Q4_1
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
248 GB250.7 GB file
32K 265 GB · 128K 318 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
Q4_K_S
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
248 GB227.8 GB file
32K 265 GB · 128K 318 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
Q5_K_S
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
304 GB275.7 GB file
32K 320 GB · 128K 373 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
not listed
BF16
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
883 GB801.5 GB file
32K 900 GB · 128K 953 GB
GLM 5.3 Flash
644 GB641.6 GB file
32K 667 GB · 128K 740 GB
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct
Ollama · Q4_K_M
ollama run hf.co/unsloth/Llama-4-Maverick-17B-128E-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_MGLM 5.3 Flash
Ollama · Q4_K_M
ollama run hf.co/batiai/GLM-5.3-Flash-GGUF:Q4_K_M| Spec | Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct | GLM 5.3 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Publisher | Meta | Z.ai |
| Parameters | 401.6B | 321.3B |
| Active parameters | 17B per token | 18B per token |
| Architecture | — | Glm5NextForConditionalGeneration |
| Context | — | 1M tokens |
| Modalities | Vision | Vision, Function-calling |
| License | Other | MIT |
| Released | Apr 2025 | Aug 2026 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Which is better, Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct or GLM 5.3 Flash?
GLM 5.3 Flash leads llmrun Score 124.1 to 87.1; neither fits 24 GB. Choose GLM 5.3 Flash for higher llmrun Score and stronger at reasoning.
Which needs less VRAM, Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct or GLM 5.3 Flash?
At Q4_K_M, Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct requires 265.1 GB while GLM 5.3 Flash needs 194.6 GB, making GLM 5.3 Flash the easier model to run on your local setup.
Can I run Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct or GLM 5.3 Flash on a 16 GB GPU?
Llama 4 Maverick 17B 128E Instruct does not fit (smallest quant needs 129.2 GB); GLM 5.3 Flash does not fit (smallest quant needs 100.7 GB).