Model comparison
Grok 4 vs Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Grok 4 scores higher in 3 categories and Muse Spark 1.3 in 7 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Muse Spark 1.3 leads 73.1 to 48.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 84% for Grok 4 and 99.2% for Muse Spark 1.3.
Side by side
| Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | xAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 48.1 | 54.8 |
| Released | 2025-07-09 | 2026-09-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 131K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $4.25 |
| Results tracked | 48 | 37 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 50.3 (#46), Muse Spark 1.3: 56.6 (#21)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1408 | 1514 |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | — |
| CursorBench | — | 41.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1657 |
| SciCode | — | 59.7% |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 32.3 (#68), Muse Spark 1.3: 38.6 (#30)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | — |
| APEX-Agents | — | 57.8% |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 63% | — |
| GDPval | 21.1% | — |
| Cybench | 43% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 47.3% | — |
| BALROG | 43.6% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 27.6% |
| LMArena Search | 1142 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 66.6% | — |
Reasoning Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 36.7 (#65), Muse Spark 1.3: 54.0 (#27)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 28% | 38% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1409 | 1503 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.44 | 156.75 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 16% | — |
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 85.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 66.7% | — |
| CritPt | — | 26% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 25% |
| DTBench | — | 96.5% |
| LMCA | — | 53.9% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.14 |
| ForecastBench | 60.9 | — |
Math Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 48.4 (#64), Muse Spark 1.3: 73.1 (#21)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 84% | 99.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1422 | 1494 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 74.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 46.3% |
| ProofBench | — | 58% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.3% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 19.7% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 53.8 (#55), Muse Spark 1.3: 42.6 (#95)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1415 | 1516 |
| GPQA Diamond | 87% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.4% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 72.7% | — |
Multimodal Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 33.7 (#94), Muse Spark 1.3: 43.7 (#22)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | 1309 |
| GeoBench | 45% | — |
| LMArena Document | — | 1471 |
Multilingual Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 51.8 (#103), Muse Spark 1.3: 57.4 (#8)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1403 | 1481 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1427 | 1529 |
| LMArena French | 1418 | 1524 |
| LMArena German | 1429 | 1515 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1394 | 1474 |
| LMArena Korean | 1377 | 1501 |
| LMArena Russian | 1410 | 1490 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | 1490 |
Instruction Following Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 79.2 (#5), Muse Spark 1.3: 77.5 (#22)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1387 | 1477 |
| IFEval | 94.9% | — |
Long Context Grok 4 leads
Grok 4: 63.1 (#4), Muse Spark 1.3: 45.6 (#32)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1409 | 1488 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 94.4% | — |
Writing & Preference Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Grok 4: 58.5 (#116), Muse Spark 1.3: 73.6 (#9)
| Benchmark | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1411 | 1490 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1397 | 1455 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1416 | 1482 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 76.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1906 |
| WildBench | 79.7% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Grok 4 better than Muse Spark 1.3?
Muse Spark 1.3 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 48.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Grok 4 or Muse Spark 1.3 better for coding?
Muse Spark 1.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.6 versus 50.3 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Grok 4 and Muse Spark 1.3 share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Grok 4 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.3 has 37.