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GLM-5.3vsMuse Spark 1.2

GLM-5.3 leads 12 of 19 shared benchmarks. Muse Spark 1.2 is 1.1x cheaper per token. Muse Spark 1.2 has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
12 – 7
GLM-5.3 leads
Cheaper per token
Muse Spark 1.2
1.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Muse Spark 1.2
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Z.ai · Meta
GLM-5.3
Z.ai · released 2026-08-18
text
Context
1M
Max out
131K
Input /1M
$1.4 ↗
Output /1M
$4.4 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.26
Scores
57 · 9 core
Muse Spark 1.2
Meta · released 2026-08-05
textvisionvideoaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
—
Input /1M
$1.25 ↗
Output /1M
$4.25 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
23 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGLM-5.3Muse Spark 1.2ΔEdge
Reported by both · 19
LMArena Elo1478.5 ↗1493.5 ↗-15Muse Spark 1.2
APEX-Agents (Mercor)56.6% ↗36.4% ↗+20.2 ptGLM-5.3
DeepSWE v1.166.9% ↗59.3% ↗+7.6 ptGLM-5.3
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)69% ↗54.9% ↗+14.1 ptGLM-5.3
FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs)30.2% ↗12% ↗+18.2 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)60.9% ↗57.6% ↗+3.3 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)79% ↗77.5% ↗+1.5 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)70.2% ↗76.5% ↗-6.3 ptMuse Spark 1.2
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)69.3% ↗74.3% ↗-5 ptMuse Spark 1.2
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)79.9% ↗78.6% ↗+1.3 ptGLM-5.3
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)87.9% ↗91.2% ↗-3.3 ptMuse Spark 1.2
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)85.8% ↗90% ↗-4.2 ptMuse Spark 1.2
LMArena Agent (LMArena)0.0236 ↗-0.0327 ↗+0.1GLM-5.3
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1623 ↗1531.8 ↗+91.2GLM-5.3
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)66.2% ↗74.5% ↗-8.3 ptMuse Spark 1.2
SimpleQA Verified41% ↗epoch run60.3% ↗epoch run-19.3 ptMuse Spark 1.2
Terminal-Bench 2.188.2% ↗82.9% ↗+5.3 ptGLM-5.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)38.9% ↗6.1% ↗+32.8 ptGLM-5.3
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)75.4% ↗60.3% ↗+15.1 ptGLM-5.3
Only GLM-5.3 reports · 24
GPQA Diamond90.9% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Agents' Last Exam28.5% ↗not reported——
Agents' Last Exam (ALE-CLI)28.5% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench v1.0.648.2% ↗not reported——
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)21% ↗epoch runnot reported——
CyberGym84.5% ↗not reported——
ExploitBench54.4% ↗not reported——
ExploitGym 2h105 ↗not reported——
ExploitGym 6h130 ↗not reported——
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)29.3% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)68.8% ↗epoch runnot reported——
FrontierSWE78.1% ↗not reported——
GDPval-AA v21769 ↗not reported——
HLE (with tools)62.5% ↗not reported——
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)33% ↗epoch runnot reported——
NL2Repo58% ↗not reported——
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)91.1% ↗epoch runnot reported——
PostTrainBench39.8% ↗not reported——
ProgramBench (Almost Solved)19% ↗not reported——
SWE-Marathon v1.142.5% ↗not reported——
Terminal-Bench 3.028.3% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon Verified73% ↗not reported——
Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs)8163.61 ↗not reported——
Z.ai Code Bench (max effort)34.5% ↗not reported——
Only Muse Spark 1.2 reports · 4
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1292.8 ↗——
MCP Atlasnot reported90.3% ↗——
SAGE (Vals AI)not reported47.7% ↗——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)not reported75.9% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is GLM-5.3 minus Muse Spark 1.2 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecGLM-5.3Muse Spark 1.2Edge
Context window1M tokens1.0M tokensMuse Spark 1.2
Max output131K tokens——
Input price / 1M$1.4 ↗$1.25 ↗Muse Spark 1.2
Output price / 1M$4.4 ↗$4.25 ↗Muse Spark 1.2
Cached input / 1M$0.26 ↗$0.15 ↗Muse Spark 1.2
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$5.8$5.5Muse Spark 1.2
Modalitiestexttext · vision · video · audioMuse Spark 1.2
Released2026-08-182026-08-05—
Cited benchmark scores5723—
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