Comparing 2 models

Muse Spark 1.3 vs GLM 5.2

Benchmarks through

Verdict

Muse Spark 1.3 places higher on 3 of the 3 tasks where both are ranked. GLM 5.2 costs 36.7x less per input token. Only GLM 5.2 has open weights for self-hosting.

  • Choose Muse Spark 1.3 for Structured Data Extraction (#5), JSON & Schema Output (#5), Value LLM (#5).
  • Choose GLM 5.2 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 1.3
Model 2GLM 5.2
Best for
a General Assistant (#4)
Best Cheap LLM for High Volume (#2)
Provider
meta
z-ai
Context
1.0MBest
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$1.25
$0.034Best
Output / 1M
$4.25Best
$7
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
—
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
—
yesBest
Released
Sep 2, 2026
Jun 13, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationMuse Spark 1.3GLM 5.2Source
Design Arena Coding1350 Elo1287 Elosource · 2026-10-23
Design Arena Full-stack Agent1295 Elo1241 Elosource · 2026-10-22
Design Arena UI1342 Elo1294 Elosource · 2026-10-23
Design Arena Web-app Agent1297 Elo1222 Elosource · 2026-10-23
Design Arena Website1345 Elo1285 Elosource · 2026-10-23
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)74% ± 2.659.2% ± 3source · 2026-09-18
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)74.4% ± 2.659.2% ± 3source · 2026-09-16
LiveBench Agentic Coding64.1%51.8%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Coding81.1%79.7%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Data Analysis79.6%73.7%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Instruction Following78%62.3%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Language82.8%76.2%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Math96.0%89.8%source · 2026-10-18
LiveBench Reasoning89.7%78.6%source · 2026-10-18
LMArena Agent3.42.1source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery6.10.7source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability51.3source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Task Outcome5.33.8source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination0.60.7source · 2026-10-20
LMArena Creative Writing1462 Elo1462 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Instruction Following1479 Elo1466 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Long Query1489 Elo1479 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Math1502 Elo1484 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Text1496 Elo1475 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena Text Factuality1480 Elo1463 Elosource · 2026-10-22
LMArena WebDev1657 Elo1604 Elosource · 2026-10-22
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)99.2% ± 0.686.4% ± 4.2source · 2026-09-17

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