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Model comparison

Muse Spark 1.2 vs Pixtral 12B

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark 1.2 Meta

50.3

Rank #48 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

31.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral 12B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Muse Spark 1.2 leads 43.4 to 23.9.
  • Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.2.
  • Muse Spark 1.2 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index50.331.3
Released2026-08-052024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$4.25$0.15
Results tracked312

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
DeepSWE54.9%—
LMArena WebDev1533—
FrontierSWE12%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML60.3%—
LMArena Coding1495—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
APEX-Agents36.4%—
GDP.pdf16%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
SimpleBench74.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.2%—
CritPt17.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
DTBench94.7%—
LMCA48.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.87—

Math Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
ProofBench43%—
LMArena Math1471—

Knowledge Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
SimpleQA Verified60.3%—
LMArena Expert1480—

Multimodal Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25), Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
LMArena Vision13051009
GeoBench—37%

Multilingual Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
LMArena Non-English1478—
LMArena Chinese1511—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena Russian1487—
LMArena Spanish1498—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1461—

Long Context Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1475—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Pixtral 12B
LMArena Text1482—
LMArena Creative Writing1449—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
LMArena Multi-Turn1494—

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark 1.2 better than Pixtral 12B?

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.2 or Pixtral 12B?

Pixtral 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.2 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Muse Spark 1.2 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.2 and Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.2 has 31 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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