Comparing 2 models

Muse Spark 1.2 vs GLM 5.3

Benchmarks through

Verdict

Muse Spark 1.2 and GLM 5.3 are not yet ranked on the same task, so compare the specifications below. GLM 5.3 costs 15.8x less per input token. Only GLM 5.3 has open weights for self-hosting.

  • Choose GLM 5.3 for you need to self-host.

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1Muse Spark 1.2
Model 2GLM 5.3
Best for
Document Parsing (#4)
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#2)
Provider
meta
z-ai
Context
1.0MBest
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$1.25
$0.079Best
Output / 1M
$4.25Best
$4.80
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
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Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
—
yesBest
Released
Aug 5, 2026
Aug 14, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationMuse Spark 1.2GLM 5.3Source
Design Arena Coding1315 Elo1307 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena UI1302 Elo1314 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena Website1315 Elo1298 Elosource · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Agentic Coding57.6%60.9%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Coding77.5%79.0%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Data Analysis76.5%70.2%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Instruction Following74.3%69.3%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Language78.6%79.9%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Math91.2%87.9%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Reasoning90%85.8%source · 2026-10-16
LMArena Agent-6.52source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery5.8-0.1source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability-8.30.4source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Task Outcome-7.93.8source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination0.20.6source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Creative Writing1440 Elo1456 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1462 Elo1476 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1476 Elo1481 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1476 Elo1491 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1493 Elo1479 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1481 Elo1466 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena WebDev1533 Elo1621 Elosource · 2026-10-13
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)60.3% ± 1.641% ± 1.6source · 2026-08-27

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.