Model comparison
Muse Spark 1.1 vs phi-3-medium 14B
Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
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MicrosoftSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 53.1 to 9.1.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 49.9 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-08 | 2024-04-23 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 131K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 13 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Spark 1.1 leads
Muse Spark 1.1: 51.3 (#40), phi-3-medium 14B: 36.8 (#201)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1542 | — |
| SciCode | 58.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1498 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 30.8 (#73), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 31.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 40.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 7.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 15% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,520 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 47.1 (#44), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.21 | 121.23 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 84.9% | — |
| CritPt | 15.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1486 | — |
| DTBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMCA | 49.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 52.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |
Math Muse Spark 1.1 leads
Muse Spark 1.1: 45.5 (#76), phi-3-medium 14B: 27.3 (#250)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 39% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1483 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |
Knowledge Muse Spark 1.1 leads
Muse Spark 1.1: 53.1 (#59), phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#306)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 57.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1478 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 42.6 (#29), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1465 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 56.7 (#17), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1472 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1518 | — |
| LMArena French | 1494 | — |
| LMArena German | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1451 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1458 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1483 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1464 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 76.5 (#39), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1457 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#58), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 73.4 (#11), phi-3-medium 14B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1437 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1927 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1260 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1485 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than phi-3-medium 14B?
Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Muse Spark 1.1 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?
Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.3 versus 36.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.1 and phi-3-medium 14B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.1 has 37 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.