Muse Spark 1.3 vs Mistral Small 3.2 24B
Mistral Small 3.2 24B costs 14.2x less per output token than Muse Spark 1.3 ($0.30 vs $4.25 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 5 benchmarks have a result for both.
Muse Spark 1.3 or Mistral Small 3.2 24B: which to pick
Only Muse Spark 1.3 has a coding score, 57.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Small 3.2 24B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Mistral Small 3.2 24B for output tokens 14.2x cheaper ($0.30 vs $4.25 per million).
- Shared results
- 5
- Muse Spark 1.3 only
- 87
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 1 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
No call
Only Muse Spark 1.3 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Muse Spark 1.3 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 48.1.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Muse Spark 1.3 has a AA Agentic Index result, 55.5.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 leads, 1356 against 896.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 takes 1.05M tokens against 256K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Mistral Small 3.2 24B
Muse Spark 1.3 $0.0034, Mistral Small 3.2 24B $0.0003 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Muse Spark 1.3 57.4 from 4 benchmarks, Mistral Small 3.2 24B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Web design, 55.0 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: websites: Muse Spark 1.3 1356 against Mistral Small 3.2 24B 896, 57.5 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Muse Spark 1.3 $4.25 against Mistral Small 3.2 24B $0.30 per million output tokens, 14.2x apart.
- Context window
- Muse Spark 1.3 takes 1.05M tokens, Mistral Small 3.2 24B 256K.
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 1.3 | Bars | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web design | 5 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 5 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlySix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index18 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 90.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1659 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 75.8 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 10.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 27.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 43.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 72.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 69.4% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| SciCode | 59.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 25.8% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1688.3 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1510 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1511 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1672 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1653 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1640 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 48.1 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 157.2 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 55.5 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1297 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1295 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1218 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1241 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1219 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1062 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LiveBench research | 68.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 40.4% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 58.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 40.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 62.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 58.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 94.1% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 37.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 25.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1503 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1519 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1500 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1330 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1296 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 12 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 99.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 74.4% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| ProofBench | 58.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1497 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1491 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text: science | 1507 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1493 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1499 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1490 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1356 | 896 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1349 | 907 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1328 | 889 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1343 | 929 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1358 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1352 | 907 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1301 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1278 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LiveBench design | 74.8% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index27 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 79.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 83.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| DTBench | 96.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMCA | 53.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1490 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1479 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1462 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1308 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1495 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1481 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1532 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1513 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1470 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1490 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1511 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1496 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1491 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1490 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1487 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1488 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1470 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1457 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1298 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1384 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1319 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1293 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1296 | Not measured | Only Muse Spark 1.3 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B | 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
Mistral Small 3.2 24B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Mistral Small 3.2 24B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Mistral Small 3.2 24B 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 | Meta Muse Spark 1.3 | Mistral Small 3.2 24B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Mistral AI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | September 2, 2026 | June 20, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 256K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.10 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.25 | $0.30 |
| Coding index | 57.4 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Muse Spark 1.3 better than Mistral Small 3.2 24B for coding?
Only Muse Spark 1.3 has a coding score, 57.4 on the Vibe Coding Index; Mistral Small 3.2 24B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Mistral Small 3.2 24B for output tokens 14.2x cheaper ($0.30 vs $4.25 per million).
Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.3 or Mistral Small 3.2 24B?
Muse Spark 1.3 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens; Mistral Small 3.2 24B costs $0.10 and $0.30. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Muse Spark 1.3 or Mistral Small 3.2 24B?
Muse Spark 1.3, with 1.05M tokens against 256K.
How many benchmarks is the Muse Spark 1.3 vs Mistral Small 3.2 24B comparison based on?
5 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Muse Spark 1.3's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Mistral Small 3.2 24B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.