Muse Spark Open vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Updated October 21, 2026. 12 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 28.6 for Qwen3.5 397B A17B.
Pick Qwen3.5 397B A17B when output tokens cost 1.8x less, or when the benchmark that matters is GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 12
- Muse Spark Open only
- 14
- Qwen3.5 397B A17B only
- 53
- 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 28.6.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B has a AA Intelligence Index result, 21.4.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open leads, 1311 against 1191.
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
Qwen3.5 397B A17B
Muse Spark Open $0.0034, Qwen3.5 397B A17B $0.0016 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Muse Spark Open 62.1 from 2 benchmarks, Qwen3.5 397B A17B 28.6 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Coding, 20.4 points apart on average over 5 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ALE-Bench: Muse Spark Open 1590.1 against Qwen3.5 397B A17B 621.9, 32.3 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Muse Spark Open $4.25 against Qwen3.5 397B A17B $2.34 per million output tokens, 1.8x apart.
- Context window
- Muse Spark Open takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3.5 397B A17B 262K.
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 Open | Bars | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 1 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 2 | 0 | ||
| General | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 11 | 1 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index50
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 73.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1528 | 1400 | Muse Spark Open |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 6.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 76.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 21.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| SciCode | 58.4% | 44.8% | Muse Spark Open |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 40.9% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| ALE-Bench | 1590.1 | 621.9 | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1464 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1463 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1529 | 1388 | Muse Spark Open |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1495 | 1410 | Muse Spark Open |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 21.4 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.1 | 146.8 | Muse Spark Open |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | 80.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench browser | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 18.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 61.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 26.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 38.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 53.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 95.6% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| APEX-Agents | 33.4% | 24.9% | Muse Spark Open |
| Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 73.7% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 89.0% | 89.3% | Qwen3.5 397B A17B |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 43.9% | 29.0% | Muse Spark Open |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 86.4% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 18.0% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1448 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1462 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1450 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1277 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1292 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 88.9% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 31.2% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1453 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1454 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index4 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1457 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1455 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1441 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1435 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1311 | 1191 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 1163 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1290 | 1141 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 1175 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | Not measured | 1161 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 1180 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1139 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LiveBench design | 60.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 60.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Spark Open measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 78.8% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 78.3% | 77.3% | Muse Spark Open |
| DTBench | Not measured | 87.5% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 37.9% | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1437 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1424 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1402 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1262 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1443 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1430 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1498 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1445 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1429 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1384 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1462 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1441 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1430 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1447 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1446 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1441 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1415 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1399 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1268 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1314 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1271 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1262 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1230 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1265 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1260 | Only Qwen3.5 397B A17B measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Spark Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B | 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
Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.5 397B A17B 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 Open | Qwen3.5 397B A17B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Qwen |
| Weights | Open weights | Open weights |
| Released | October 15, 2026 | February 16, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.39 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.25 | $2.34 |
| Coding index | 62.1 | 28.6 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Muse Spark Open better than Qwen3.5 397B A17B for coding?
Pick Muse Spark Open for coding: it scores 62.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 28.6 for Qwen3.5 397B A17B. Pick Qwen3.5 397B A17B when output tokens cost 1.8x less, or when the benchmark that matters is GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Muse Spark Open or Qwen3.5 397B A17B?
Muse Spark Open costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 397B A17B costs $0.39 and $2.34. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Muse Spark Open or Qwen3.5 397B A17B?
Muse Spark Open, with 1.05M tokens against 262K.
How many benchmarks is the Muse Spark Open vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B comparison based on?
12 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Muse Spark Open's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.5 397B A17B's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.