GLM 5 Turbo vs Muse Spark 1.1
Verdict
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 58.4.
- GLM 5 Turbo is stronger in agents & tools.
- Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in composite, instruction following, knowledge, long context, coding, human preference, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
- They cost about the same ($1.90 per 1M blended).
- Muse Spark 1.1 streams 9.9× faster (179 vs 18 tokens per second).
| Metric | GLM 5 Turbo | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 58.4 | 65.0 |
| Agents & tools score | 63.1 | 62.3 |
| Composite score | 62.9 | 72.6 |
| Instruction following score | 71.8 | 77.8 |
| Knowledge score | 56.6 | 73.3 |
| Long context score | 62.4 | 65.5 |
| Coding score | – | 68.0 |
| Human preference score | – | 66.4 |
| Maths score | – | 52.2 |
| Multimodal score | – | 65.0 |
| Reasoning score | – | 69.3 |
| Blended price $/M | $1.90 | $2.00 |
| Output speed | 18 tok/s | 179 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 7.9 s | 2.3 s |
| Context window | 200k | 1.0M |
| SimpleQA Verified | – | 57.8% |
| SciCode | – | 58.2% |
| APEX-Agents | – | 41.9% |
| ProofBench | – | 39.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | – | 154.6 |
| LMArena Text | – | 1494 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | – | 1513 |
| LMArena Coding | – | 1533 |
| LMArena WebDev | – | 1542 |
| LMArena Vision | – | 1293 |
| LMArena Agent | – | -3 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 26.6 | 34.3 |
| IFBench | 73.2% | – |
| AA-LCR | 71.7% | 77.7% |
| AA-Omniscience | -16.4 | 28.1 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 33.3% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 84.8% | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 27.8% | 46.2% |
| SciCode (AA) | – | 58.8% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 98.5% | – |
| SWE-Bench Pro | – | 61.5% |
| MCP Atlas | – | 88.1% |
| MultiChallenge | – | 75.3% |
| PRBench Finance | – | 55.0% |
| PRBench Legal | – | 57.0% |
| MultiNRC | – | 65.6% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | – | 1260 |
Data as of 2026-09-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
GLM 5 Turbo vs Muse Spark 1.1: questions
- Is GLM 5 Turbo better than Muse Spark 1.1?
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 58.4. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.1 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-13, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is GLM 5 Turbo better than Muse Spark 1.1 for agentic tasks?
- GLM 5 Turbo scores higher in agentic tasks (63 vs 62 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, GLM 5 Turbo or Muse Spark 1.1?
- GLM 5 Turbo is cheaper: $1.90 against $2.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, GLM 5 Turbo or Muse Spark 1.1?
- Muse Spark 1.1 streams faster: 179 against 18 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.0M against 200k tokens.