Model comparison
Magistral Small vs Muse Spark
Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MetaSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Magistral Small scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Spark in 4 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 30.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 30% for Magistral Small and 88.9% for Muse Spark.
- Magistral Small has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Magistral Small | Muse Spark | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 29.9 | 50.3 |
| Released | 2025-06-10 | 2026-04-08 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 40K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $1.50 | — |
| Results tracked | 10 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Spark leads
Magistral Small: 37.8 (#172), Muse Spark: 45.6 (#65)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.2% | 51.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1482 |
Reasoning Muse Spark leads
Magistral Small: 6.9 (#345), Muse Spark: 34.9 (#61)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0.3% | 11.3% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.19 | 152.09 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 6.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1475 |
| DTBench | 61.3% | — |
Math Muse Spark leads
Magistral Small: 24.9 (#253), Muse Spark: 46.8 (#57)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 30% | 88.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 17% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 39% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |
Knowledge Muse Spark leads
Magistral Small: 30.9 (#215), Muse Spark: 65.7 (#12)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 56.1% | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1458 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Muse Spark: 42.7 (#23)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1444 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Muse Spark: 56.3 (#23)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1507 |
| LMArena French | — | 1497 |
| LMArena German | — | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1457 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1467 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1471 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Muse Spark: 76.1 (#47)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1443 |
Long Context Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Muse Spark: 44.4 (#65)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1451 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Magistral Small: —, Muse Spark: 66.2 (#37)
| Benchmark | Magistral Small | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1474 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1460 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1477 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Magistral Small better than Muse Spark?
Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 29.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Magistral Small or Muse Spark better for coding?
Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.6 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Magistral Small and Muse Spark share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Magistral Small has 10 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark has 27.