Nova Lite 1.0 vs Muse Spark Open
Updated October 21, 2026. 3 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Only Muse Spark Open has a coding score, 47.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nova Lite 1.0 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Nova Lite 1.0 has the edge where output tokens cost 17.7x less.
- Shared results
- 3
- Nova Lite 1.0 only
- 38
- Muse Spark Open only
- 23
- Like-for-like categories
- 2 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Muse Spark Open has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Nova Lite 1.0 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 6.7.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Muse Spark Open has a Design Arena: websites result, 1313.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open takes 1.05M tokens against 300K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nova Lite 1.0
Nova Lite 1.0 $0.0002, Muse Spark Open $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Nova Lite 1.0 not benchmarked, Muse Spark Open 47.4 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- General, 59.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): Nova Lite 1.0 19.0% against Muse Spark Open 78.3%, 59.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Nova Lite 1.0 $0.24 against Muse Spark Open $4.25 per million output tokens, 17.7x apart.
- Context window
- Nova Lite 1.0 takes 300K tokens, Muse Spark Open 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Nova Lite 1.0 | Bars | Muse Spark Open | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 3 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index13 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 73.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena WebDev | Not measured | 1528 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 6.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 76.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 21.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 16.7% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 58.4% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 0.8% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1590.1 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1239 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1241 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | Not measured | 1529 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | Not measured | 1495 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 6.7 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 155.1 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 80.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 36.0% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 18.9% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 38.5% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 53.7% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 17.5% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 33.4% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 73.7% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.3% | 89.0% | Muse Spark Open |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 4.3% | 43.9% | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1220 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1201 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1226 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 7.0 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 7.0% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1227 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1235 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| MMLU | 77.0% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1232 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1213 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1238 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1219 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index3 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 1313 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 1303 | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 60.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 60.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| IFBench | 34.1% | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 19.0% | 78.3% | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena Text | 1229 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1205 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1197 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 990 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1243 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1208 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1225 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1229 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1153 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1153 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1238 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1226 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1216 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1199 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1234 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1211 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1176 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 999 | Not measured | Only Nova Lite 1.0 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Nova Lite 1.0 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Nova Lite 1.0 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Nova Lite 1.0 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Nova Lite 1.0 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Amazon Nova Lite 1.0 | Meta Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Amazon | Meta |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | December 5, 2024 | October 15, 2026 |
| Context window | 300K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.06 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.24 | $4.25 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 47.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Nova Lite 1.0 better than Muse Spark Open for coding?
Only Muse Spark Open has a coding score, 47.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Nova Lite 1.0 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Nova Lite 1.0 has the edge where output tokens cost 17.7x less.
Which is cheaper, Nova Lite 1.0 or Muse Spark Open?
Nova Lite 1.0 costs $0.06 per million input tokens and $0.24 per million output tokens; Muse Spark Open costs $1.25 and $4.25. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Nova Lite 1.0 or Muse Spark Open?
Muse Spark Open, with 1.05M tokens against 300K.
How many benchmarks is the Nova Lite 1.0 vs Muse Spark Open comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Nova Lite 1.0's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Muse Spark Open's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.