Model comparison
Muse Spark 1.1 vs StarCoder 2 3B
Muse Spark 1.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#43); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
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NVIDIASummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 50.8 to 32.9.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 49.9 | 35.8 |
| Released | 2026-04-08 | 2024-02-22 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1.05M | — |
| Max output | 131K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1.25 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $4.25 | — |
| Results tracked | 36 | 7 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Spark 1.1 leads
Muse Spark 1.1: 50.8 (#38), StarCoder 2 3B: 32.9
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1542 | — |
| SciCode | 58.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1497 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 33.9 (#45), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | 40.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 7.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 15% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,520 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 45.9 (#41), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.32 | 88.01 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 84.9% | — |
| CritPt | 15.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1486 | — |
| DTBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMCA | 49.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 52.5% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |
Math Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 44.0 (#67), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 39% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1477 | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 52.8 (#55), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 57.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1480 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |
Multimodal Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 41.9 (#28), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1465 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 56.8 (#16), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1471 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1518 | — |
| LMArena French | 1494 | — |
| LMArena German | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1482 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1471 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 76.8 (#36), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1457 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#55), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1463 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Muse Spark 1.1: 73.6 (#11), StarCoder 2 3B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1440 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1927 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1260 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than StarCoder 2 3B?
Muse Spark 1.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#43); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Is Muse Spark 1.1 or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?
Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.8 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.1 and StarCoder 2 3B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.1 has 36 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.