Muse Spark 1.1 vs Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.1 leads Muse Spark 1.3 on coding, 70.3 to 57.4 on the Vibe Coding Index, at about the same output price ($4.25 vs $4.25 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 77 benchmarks have a result for both.
Muse Spark 1.1 or Muse Spark 1.3: which to pick
Pick Muse Spark 1.1 for coding: it scores 70.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.4 for Muse Spark 1.3, though on 3 benchmarks against 4.
Pick Muse Spark 1.3 for work measured by LMArena WebDev or AA Coding Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 77
- Muse Spark 1.1 only
- 27
- Muse Spark 1.3 only
- 19
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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
Muse Spark 1.1
Muse Spark 1.1 scores 70.3 against 57.4.
3 and 4 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 leads, 48.1 against 33.7.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 leads, 55.5 against 25.8.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Muse Spark 1.1 has a GPQA Diamond result, 91.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Muse Spark 1.1 has a MMLU Pro result, 88.7%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 leads, 1356 against 1270.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
No call
Both take 1.05M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
No call
Muse Spark 1.1 $0.0034, Muse Spark 1.3 $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Muse Spark 1.1 has the number, $0.43.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Muse Spark 1.1 70.3 from 3 benchmarks, Muse Spark 1.3 57.4 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 11.8 points apart on average over 11 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- AA Agentic Index: Muse Spark 1.1 25.8 against Muse Spark 1.3 55.5, 29.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Both cost $4.25 per million output tokens.
- Context window
- Both take 1.05M tokens.
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 | Muse Spark 1.1 | Bars | Muse Spark 1.3 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 1 | 11 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 11 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 8 | ||
| Math | 0 | 4 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 6 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 8 | ||
| General | 1 | 25 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 75 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index111
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 90.2% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1542 | 1659 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| AA Coding Index | 71.3 | 75.8 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 85.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 82.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 10.6% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 72.2% | 82.9% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 31.1% | 27.6% | Muse Spark 1.1 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | 0.5% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.9% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 69.3% | 72.3% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 59.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.4% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| SciCode | 58.8% | 59.7% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| FrontierSWE | Not measured | 25.8% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1688.3 | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1498 | 1510 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1498 | 1511 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1532 | 1672 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1540 | 1653 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1540 | 1640 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | 42.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | 41.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 33.7 | 48.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.1 | 157.2 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index011
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 25.8 | 55.5 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1207 | 1297 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1199 | 1295 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1175 | 1217 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1178 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1103 | 1241 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1183 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1145 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1134 | 1217 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1021 | 1075 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 68.6% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 80.0% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 40.4% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 57.2% | 58.9% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 36.0% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 38.0% | 40.9% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 56.4% | 62.7% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | Not measured | 4.3% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 1.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 31.8% | 58.6% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $6,520 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| MCP Atlas | 88.1% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 89.7% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.8% | 94.1% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 46.2% | 48.7% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Chess puzzles | 34.0% | 37.0% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 25.0% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1485 | 1503 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1478 | 1519 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1480 | 1500 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1305 | 1330 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1287 | 1296 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Scale run) | Not measured | 25.4% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 99.2% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 74.4% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 46.3% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| ProofBench | 39.0% | 58.0% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: math | 1482 | 1497 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1487 | 1491 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| MathArena | 42.5% | 43.0% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 88.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 85.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 71.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 79.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 66.1% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 57.8% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1484 | 1507 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1479 | 1493 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1481 | 1499 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1470 | 1490 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| PRBench Finance | 55.0% | 59.5% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| PRBench Legal | 57.0% | 61.6% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index08
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1270 | 1356 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1287 | 1350 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1269 | 1328 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1267 | 1344 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1259 | 1358 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1276 | 1352 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1234 | 1301 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1269 | 1283 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 74.8% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index125
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 79.6% | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 61.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 45.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 88.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 66.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 77.7% | 83.0% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| DTBench | 94.4% | 96.5% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMCA | 49.9% | 53.9% | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 52.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1478 | 1490 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1457 | 1479 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1435 | 1462 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision | 1293 | 1308 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1478 | 1495 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1471 | 1481 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1515 | 1532 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1469 | 1513 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1450 | 1470 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1459 | 1490 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1492 | 1511 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1464 | 1496 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1482 | 1491 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1499 | 1490 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1484 | 1487 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1462 | 1488 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1448 | 1470 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1438 | 1457 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1292 | 1298 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1348 | 1384 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1301 | 1319 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1288 | 1293 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1253 | 1296 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| LMArena Document | 1465 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| MultiChallenge | 75.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1260 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.1 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | Muse Spark 1.3 | 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
Same cost
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Same cost
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Same cost
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 | Meta Muse Spark 1.1 | Meta Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Meta |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | July 16, 2026 | September 2, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.25 | $4.25 |
| Coding index | 70.3 | 57.4 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.43 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than Muse Spark 1.3 for coding?
Pick Muse Spark 1.1 for coding: it scores 70.3 on the Vibe Coding Index against 57.4 for Muse Spark 1.3, though on 3 benchmarks against 4. Pick Muse Spark 1.3 for work measured by LMArena WebDev or AA Coding Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.1 or Muse Spark 1.3?
Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.3 costs $1.25 and $4.25. Cost per solved task is known for Muse Spark 1.1 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Muse Spark 1.1 or Muse Spark 1.3?
Neither: both take 1.05M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Muse Spark 1.1 vs Muse Spark 1.3 comparison based on?
77 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Muse Spark 1.1's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Muse Spark 1.3's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.