GLM 5.1 vs Muse Spark 1.1
Verdict
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 60.2.
- GLM 5.1 is stronger in human preference, maths.
- Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, instruction following, knowledge, long context, reasoning, multimodal.
- They cost about the same ($2.00 per 1M blended).
- Muse Spark 1.1 streams 3.0× faster (194 vs 65 tokens per second).
| Metric | GLM 5.1 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 60.2 | 65.0 |
| Agents & tools score | 56.8 | 62.7 |
| Coding score | 57.3 | 68.1 |
| Composite score | 62.4 | 72.3 |
| Human preference score | 66.6 | 66.3 |
| Instruction following score | 73.9 | 77.8 |
| Knowledge score | 56.6 | 73.2 |
| Long context score | 63.3 | 65.4 |
| Maths score | 53.0 | 52.2 |
| Reasoning score | 61.4 | 69.2 |
| Multimodal score | – | 65.0 |
| Blended price $/M | $2.15 | $2.00 |
| Output speed | 65 tok/s | 194 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 60.1 s | 2.6 s |
| Context window | 200k | 1.0M |
| GPQA Diamond | 89.9% | – |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 36.8% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 93.3% | – |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | 74.2% | – |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.0% | 57.8% |
| SimpleBench | 55.1% | – |
| SciCode | 43.8% | 58.2% |
| WeirdML | 57.1% | – |
| APEX-Agents | – | 41.9% |
| ProofBench | 22.2% | 39.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 149.7 | 154.6 |
| LMArena Text | 1466 | 1492 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1489 | 1511 |
| LMArena Coding | 1514 | 1531 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1508 | 1541 |
| LMArena Vision | – | 1293 |
| LMArena Agent | – | -2.6 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 26.4 | 34.3 |
| IFBench | 76.3% | – |
| AA-LCR | 73.7% | 77.7% |
| AA-Omniscience | 0.8 | 28.1 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 43.2% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 86.8% | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 30.1% | 46.2% |
| SciCode (AA) | 44.8% | 58.8% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 97.7% | – |
| AIME (Vals) | 91.9% | – |
| LiveCodeBench | 81.4% | – |
| MMLU-Pro | 86.9% | – |
| LegalBench | 84.4% | – |
| CorpFin | 64.5% | – |
| TaxEval | 71.2% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 56.9% | – |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 76.4% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 84.5% | – |
| AIME 2026 | 95.8% | – |
| HMMT February 2026 | 89.4% | – |
| MathArena Apex | 11.5% | – |
| SWE-Bench Pro | – | 61.5% |
| MCP Atlas | 75.6% | 88.1% |
| MultiChallenge | – | 75.3% |
| PRBench Finance | – | 55.0% |
| PRBench Legal | – | 57.0% |
| MultiNRC | – | 65.6% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | – | 1260 |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
GLM 5.1 vs Muse Spark 1.1: questions
- Is GLM 5.1 better than Muse Spark 1.1?
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 60.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.1 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is GLM 5.1 better than Muse Spark 1.1 for coding?
- Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in coding (68 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is GLM 5.1 better than Muse Spark 1.1 for agentic tasks?
- Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in agentic tasks (63 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, GLM 5.1 or Muse Spark 1.1?
- Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper: $2.00 against $2.15 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, GLM 5.1 or Muse Spark 1.1?
- Muse Spark 1.1 streams faster: 194 against 65 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.0M against 200k tokens.