Toyota Glanza vs Maruti Baleno: Same Car, ₹1 Lakh Apart

Both facelifts share the same new engine and the same Level 2 ADAS, so the real question is whether Toyota’s longer warranty is worth the price gap.

The 2026 Toyota Glanza facelift starts at ₹6.99 Lakh, exactly ₹1 Lakh above the Maruti Suzuki Baleno facelift it is built on. Buy the Glanza for Toyota’s longer warranty and three years of free roadside assistance. Buy the Baleno if you would rather keep that ₹1 Lakh, because the car underneath is the same one either way.

Same Engine, Same ADAS: What Actually Changed

Both hatchbacks got facelifted within six weeks of each other this year: the Baleno on September 5, the Glanza on October 14. Both switched to the same new 1.2-litre, three-cylinder Z12E petrol engine, making 83hp and 112Nm, with a CNG version at 70hp and 102Nm. Both get a 5-speed manual or a 5-speed AMT. And both picked up Level 2 ADAS for the first time, with adaptive cruise control, autonomous emergency braking, lane-keep assist and high-beam assist, built around a radar hidden in the grille.

None of that is a coincidence. The Glanza has been a rebadged Baleno since 2019, under the Toyota-Suzuki alliance, and the facelift changed nothing about that arrangement.

The Price Gap, Variant by Variant

The Toyota tax is not a one-time thing at the base trim. It holds at roughly ₹80,000 to ₹1 Lakh across the range, whichever variant you pick.

That ADAS suite, by the way, is not standard on either car. Autocar India and AckoDrive both confirm it is locked to the top trim alone, the Alpha(O) on the Baleno and the V(O) on the Glanza. Every cheaper variant of both cars skips it entirely.

What the Extra Money Actually Buys: Warranty

This is the real reason to pick the Glanza over the Baleno, and it has been Toyota’s pitch on every rebadged Maruti it sells. The Glanza carries a 3-year or 1,00,000km standard warranty, extendable to 5 years or 2,20,000km, plus three years of free roadside assistance, per AckoDrive and CarOnPhone’s coverage of the facelift. The Baleno’s standard cover is 2 years or 40,000km, extendable to 5 years or 1,00,000km, the same terms Maruti has offered on the Baleno for years.

Maruti’s counter-argument is its service network, which is larger and more widely spread across smaller towns than Toyota’s. If you live somewhere a Toyota dealer is a two-hour drive away, that convenience can outweigh the extra warranty years on paper.

On-Road Price and EMI in Mumbai

The ex-showroom gap widens slightly once tax and insurance are added, because both scale with the car’s price. On The Spec’d’s Mumbai on-road price page for the Glanza, the base E Petrol MT comes to about ₹8.15 Lakh on the road (₹76,890 road tax at Maharashtra’s 11% rate, plus roughly ₹38,280 insurance and ₹1,200 for FASTag and accessories), against about ₹13,699 a month as an EMI on 20% down over 5 years. The Baleno’s Mumbai on-road price page puts the Sigma Petrol MT at about ₹7.01 Lakh on the road, with a roughly ₹11,771 EMI.

That is a ₹1.14 Lakh on-road gap and about ₹1,928 more a month, on The Spec’d’s own estimates built from the ex-showroom price and Maharashtra’s road-tax rules. These are estimates, not dealer quotes, and both tax and insurance change outside Mumbai.

On mileage, both cars claim the identical ARAI figures for the identical engine: 23.8 kmpl on the manual, 24.77 kmpl on the AMT, and 33.61 km/kg on CNG. Neither facelift has been out long enough for an independent real-world test or a body of owner reports on forums like Team-BHP, so treat those numbers as claimed, not proven, until one shows up.

Which Variant Should You Actually Buy

If you are paying the Toyota premium anyway, do not pay more of it than you need to. Autocar India’s own variant guide for the facelift recommends the mid-spec G, the only trim besides S offered with every engine and gearbox combination, and at ₹9.33 Lakh for the G Petrol AMT, that is our pick too. Skip the V(O): its Level 2 ADAS is useful on a highway but adds ₹1.65 Lakh for features like lane-keep assist that mostly nag you in Indian city traffic rather than help. If you are buying the Baleno instead, the equivalent call is the Zeta Petrol AMT at ₹8.49 Lakh, for the same reason.

See every variant side by side on The Spec’d’s Baleno vs Glanza comparison page, or check the full price ladder on the Glanza’s own vehicle page.

Is the Toyota Glanza mechanically different from the Maruti Baleno?

No. Both share the same platform, the same new 1.2-litre three-cylinder engine, the same transmissions and the same ADAS hardware. The differences are the front and rear styling, badging, interior trim, warranty terms and price.

Is Toyota’s warranty worth paying ₹1 Lakh more for?

It depends on how long you plan to keep the car and how far you drive. Toyota’s 5-year/2,20,000km extended cover and free 3-year roadside assistance are genuinely longer than Maruti’s 5-year/1,00,000km extended cover on the Baleno. If you drive more than 20,000km a year or keep cars past five years, the gap matters. If you sell within three years and stay under Maruti’s basic 40,000km cover anyway, it matters less.

Which has better real-world mileage, the Glanza or the Baleno?

Nobody can say yet. Both run the identical engine and claim identical ARAI figures, but both facelifts are too new for independent real-world tests or enough owner-reported data to exist. Expect them to perform the same once that data arrives, since there is no mechanical difference to explain a gap.