Model comparison

Mercury vs Muse Spark

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 8 shared benchmarks.

Mercury Inception

37.6

Rank #199 Confirmed

Muse Spark Meta

50.6

Rank #46 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 8 benchmarks with published results for both. Mercury scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Spark in 6 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Muse Spark leads 66.0 to 46.2.

Side by side

Mercury and Muse Spark specifications
MercuryMuse Spark
ProviderInceptionMeta
Noometry Index37.650.6
Released—2026-04-08
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked927

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark leads

Mercury: 38.7 (#170), Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Coding13221481
SciCode—51.5%

Reasoning Muse Spark leads

Mercury: 17.5 (#293), Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Hard Prompts12851474
Kagi LLM Benchmark21.6%—
CritPt—11.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index—152.04

Math Not comparable

Mercury: —, Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—88.9%
ProofBench—17%
LMArena Math—1455
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—39%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—14.6%

Knowledge Not comparable

Mercury: —, Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
GPQA Diamond—89.8%
Humanity's Last Exam—40.6%
LMArena Expert—1457

Multimodal Not comparable

Mercury: —, Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Vision—1306
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Muse Spark leads

Mercury: 41.6 (#206), Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Non-English12601464
LMArena Chinese—1509
LMArena French—1497
LMArena German—1497
LMArena Korean—1459
LMArena Russian—1466
LMArena Spanish—1472

Instruction Following Muse Spark leads

Mercury: 65.2 (#224), Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Instruction Following12391442

Long Context Muse Spark leads

Mercury: 38.4 (#198), Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Longer Query12661451

Writing & Preference Muse Spark leads

Mercury: 46.2 (#221), Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMercuryMuse Spark
LMArena Text12821474
LMArena Creative Writing11911459
LMArena Multi-Turn12821477

Frequently asked questions

Is Mercury better than Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 37.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Mercury or Muse Spark better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 38.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Mercury and Muse Spark share?

8 benchmarks have published results for both models. Mercury has 9 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark has 27.

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