# GLM-5 vs Muse Spark

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for GLM-5 and Muse Spark across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/glm-5-vs-muse-spark
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GLM-5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Muse Spark leads overall 59.99 to 53.49.
- The clearest category separation is in coding, where the averages are 38.9 for GLM-5 and 51.1 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) in Mathematics, with scores of 16.434% and 39.000%.
- Muse Spark also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | GLM-5 | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Z.AI | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 53.49 | 59.99 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 36 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $3.20 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38.7 (Estimated · #61/119)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 49.8 (Supported · #43/119)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 56.2% | 59% | Muse Spark |
| Claw-Eval | 57.7% | 63.8% | Muse Spark |
| QwenClawBench | 54.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepPlanning | 14.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 38% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 31.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Tasks | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 69.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 43.2% | 43.5% | Muse Spark |
| Gert Labs | 50.99% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 38.9 (Estimated · #65/144)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 51.1 (Supported · #39/144)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.8% | 77.4% | GLM-5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 72.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.1% | 52.4% | GLM-5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 73.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 62.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 74.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 60.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AI-Needle | 63.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 78.5 (#14/49)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 33.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 48.4 (Estimated · #73/171)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 60.3 (Supported · #40/171)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 86% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 86.0% | 89.5% | Muse Spark |
| SuperGPQA | 66.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | 50.4% | Tie |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 89.5 (#6/16)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 55.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 87.2 (#31/125)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 91.9 (#8/125)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 92.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- GLM-5 public-lane score: 56.5 (#7/7)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | GLM-5 | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 93.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 97.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 96.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 82.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 16.434% | 39.000% | Muse Spark |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.100% | 14.600% | Muse Spark |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, GLM-5 or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between GLM-5 and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in coding, where the averages are 38.9 for GLM-5 and 51.1 for Muse Spark.

### How many benchmarks does GLM-5 cover on BenchLM?

GLM-5 currently has 36 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Muse Spark cover on BenchLM?

Muse Spark currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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