Kimi K2.6 vs Muse Spark Open
Updated October 21, 2026. 17 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Muse Spark Open for coding: it scores 62.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.2 for Kimi K2.6.
Pick Kimi K2.6 when output tokens cost 1.2x less, or when what matters is Code migration (Vals AI) or Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 17
- Kimi K2.6 only
- 92
- Muse Spark Open only
- 9
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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, four public coding benchmarks
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open scores 62.1 against 44.2.
1 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Kimi K2.6 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 27.0.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Kimi K2.6 has a AA Agentic Index result, 20.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Kimi K2.6 has a GPQA Diamond result, 89.1%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Kimi K2.6 has a MMLU Pro result, 87.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open leads, 1311 against 1269.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open takes 1.05M tokens against 262K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Kimi K2.6
Kimi K2.6 $0.0024, Muse Spark Open $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Kimi K2.6 has the number, $0.35.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Kimi K2.6 44.2 from 1 benchmark, Muse Spark Open 62.1 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 14.3 points apart on average over 4 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI): Kimi K2.6 37.9% against Muse Spark Open 76.2%, 38.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Kimi K2.6 $3.41 against Muse Spark Open $4.25 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Kimi K2.6 takes 262K 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 | Kimi K2.6 | Bars | Muse Spark Open | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 6 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 3 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 2 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 4 | 13 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index16
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 73.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1509 | 1528 | Muse Spark Open |
| AA Coding Index | 61.8 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 86.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 76.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 6.6% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 37.9% | 76.2% | Muse Spark Open |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 27.8% | 21.2% | Kimi K2.6 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 53.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| SciCode | 51.5% | 58.4% | Muse Spark Open |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| WeirdML | 55.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1092.7 | 1590.1 | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1489 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1484 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1505 | 1529 | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1485 | 1495 | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1521 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 27.0 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 150.9 | 155.1 | Muse Spark Open |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 20.5 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1268 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1155 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1156 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1166 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1120 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1141 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1184 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1128 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1276 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| 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) | 44.9% | 61.3% | Muse Spark Open |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 12.4% | 26.3% | Muse Spark Open |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 15.9% | 38.5% | Muse Spark Open |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 57.9% | 53.7% | Kimi K2.6 |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 95.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| APEX-Agents | Not measured | 33.4% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 4.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $6,205 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 73.7% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 91.1% | 89.0% | Kimi K2.6 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 37.5% | 43.9% | Muse Spark Open |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 90.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 20.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 18.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| EBR-bench | 2.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1470 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1491 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1471 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1298 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1310 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 96.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 57.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 25.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| ProofBench | 16.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1474 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1480 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 87.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 84.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 61.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 66.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 74.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 65.8% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 40.1% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 34.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1468 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1457 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1462 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1445 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1269 | 1311 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1266 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1251 | 1290 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1249 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1268 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1272 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1181 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1164 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 60.3% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 60.2% | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 56.6% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 50.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 78.2% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 56.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| IFBench | 76.0% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 81.0% | 78.3% | Kimi K2.6 |
| DTBench | 90.9% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMCA | 37.3% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 21.7% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| ExploitBench | 18.4% | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1455 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1451 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1434 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1282 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1460 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1446 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1520 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1451 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1443 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1427 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1471 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1464 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1446 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1438 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1453 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1468 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1439 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1428 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1287 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1346 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1291 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1280 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1273 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1451 | Not measured | Only Kimi K2.6 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Kimi K2.6 | 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
Kimi K2.6 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Kimi K2.6 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Kimi K2.6 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 | MoonshotAI Kimi K2.6 | Meta Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | April 20, 2026 | October 15, 2026 |
| Context window | 262K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.65 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $3.41 | $4.25 |
| Coding index | 44.2 | 62.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.35 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Kimi K2.6 better than Muse Spark Open for coding?
Pick Muse Spark Open for coding: it scores 62.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 44.2 for Kimi K2.6. Pick Kimi K2.6 when output tokens cost 1.2x less, or when what matters is Code migration (Vals AI) or Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Kimi K2.6 or Muse Spark Open?
Kimi K2.6 costs $0.65 per million input tokens and $3.41 per million output tokens; Muse Spark Open costs $1.25 and $4.25. Cost per solved task is known for Kimi K2.6 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Kimi K2.6 or Muse Spark Open?
Muse Spark Open, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Kimi K2.6 vs Muse Spark Open comparison based on?
17 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Kimi K2.6's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Muse Spark Open's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.