Model comparison
Ministral 3B vs Muse Spark
Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
Mistral AI
MetaSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Ministral 3B scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Spark in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 10.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 25.3% for Ministral 3B and 89.8% for Muse Spark.
- Ministral 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Ministral 3B | Muse Spark | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Mistral AI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 26.2 | 50.6 |
| Released | 2024-10-01 | 2026-04-08 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |
| Context window | 131K | — |
| Max output | 262K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.10 | — |
| Results tracked | 6 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 51.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1481 |
Reasoning Muse Spark leads
Ministral 3B: 18.4 (#282), Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.1 | 152.04 |
| CritPt | — | 11.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1474 |
| DTBench | 51.7% | — |
| LMCA | 5.5% | — |
Math Muse Spark leads
Ministral 3B: 26.6 (#258), Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 88.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 17% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.4% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 39% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |
Knowledge Muse Spark leads
Ministral 3B: 10.4 (#302), Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 25.3% | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 40.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 7.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1457 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1444 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1509 |
| LMArena French | — | 1497 |
| LMArena German | — | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1466 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1472 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1442 |
Long Context Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1451 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Ministral 3B: —, Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
| Benchmark | Ministral 3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1474 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1477 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Ministral 3B better than Muse Spark?
Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 26.2 on the Noometry Index.
How many benchmarks do Ministral 3B and Muse Spark share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Ministral 3B has 6 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark has 27.