Model comparison
DeepSeek-V3 vs Muse Spark 1.1
Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 4.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Muse Spark 1.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.
DeepSeek
MetaSummary
- They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-V3 scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Spark 1.1 in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 47.1 to 20.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LMCA: 15.5% for DeepSeek-V3 and 49.9% for Muse Spark 1.1.
- DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper at $0.24 / $0.90 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.1.
- Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 164K.
- DeepSeek-V3 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 49.9 |
| Released | 2024-12-26 | 2026-04-08 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 164K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 164K | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.24 | $1.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.90 | $4.25 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 42.3 (#106), Muse Spark 1.1: 51.3 (#40)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.8% | 58.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1368 | 1498 |
| DeepSWE | — | 53.3% |
| Aider Polyglot | 55.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1542 |
| WeirdML | 36.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 50% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 70.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 62.2% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 86.6% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-V3: —, Muse Spark 1.1: 30.8 (#73)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 31.8% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 40.5% |
| GBAEval | — | 7.9% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 15% |
| METR Time Horizons | 49.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 6,520 |
Reasoning Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 20.5 (#236), Muse Spark 1.1: 47.1 (#44)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 15.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1365 | 1486 |
| DTBench | 64.8% | 94.4% |
| LMCA | 15.5% | 49.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 135.94 | 154.21 |
| SimpleBench | 27.2% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 52.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 84.9% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 65.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 60.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 52.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | 87.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.1 | — |
| HellaSwag | 88.9% | — |
| LiveBench | 66.9% | — |
| PIQA | 84.7% | — |
| WinoGrande | 85.2% | — |
Math Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 32.1 (#219), Muse Spark 1.1: 45.5 (#76)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1373 | 1483 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 37.8% | — |
| ProofBench | — | 39% |
| Omni-MATH | 40.3% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 73.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 75.5% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 1.7% | — |
Knowledge Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 37.5 (#155), Muse Spark 1.1: 53.1 (#59)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1351 | 1478 |
| GPQA Diamond | 67.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 57.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 72.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 26.1% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 6.1% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 53.8% | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 95.3% | — |
| MMLU | 87.2% | — |
| TriviaQA | 82.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
DeepSeek-V3: —, Muse Spark 1.1: 42.6 (#29)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1293 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1465 |
Multilingual Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 48.5 (#143), Muse Spark 1.1: 56.7 (#17)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1358 | 1472 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1391 | 1518 |
| LMArena French | 1385 | 1494 |
| LMArena German | 1374 | 1466 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1333 | 1451 |
| LMArena Korean | 1319 | 1458 |
| LMArena Russian | 1373 | 1483 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1358 | 1464 |
Instruction Following Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 72.8 (#130), Muse Spark 1.1: 76.5 (#39)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1345 | 1457 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.5% | — |
| IFEval | 83.2% | — |
Long Context Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 34.0 (#253), Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#58)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1352 | 1462 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50% | — |
Writing & Preference Muse Spark 1.1 leads
DeepSeek-V3: 57.4 (#130), Muse Spark 1.1: 73.4 (#11)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-V3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1375 | 1479 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1364 | 1437 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1472 | 1927 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1389 | 1485 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 77% | — |
| WildBench | 83% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1260 |
| LiveBench Language | 49.1% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-V3 better than Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index. DeepSeek-V3 costs 4.9× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Muse Spark 1.1's lead doesn't matter for your workload.
Which is cheaper, DeepSeek-V3 or Muse Spark 1.1?
DeepSeek-V3 is cheaper. It lists at $0.24 per million input tokens and $0.90 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.1 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.
Is DeepSeek-V3 or Muse Spark 1.1 better for coding?
Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.3 versus 42.3 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Muse Spark 1.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 164K.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-V3 and Muse Spark 1.1 share?
23 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-V3 has 60 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.1 has 37.