Model comparison

Muse Spark vs Qwen3-30B-A3B

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark Meta

50.6

Rank #46 Confirmed

Qwen3-30B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

38.9

Rank #179 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-30B-A3B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 41.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.8% for Muse Spark and 70.1% for Qwen3-30B-A3B.
  • Qwen3-30B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse Spark and Qwen3-30B-A3B specifications
Muse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.638.9
Released2026-04-082025-04-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—41K
Max output—16K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.12
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked2732

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.5 (#194)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
SciCode51.5%33.3%
LMArena Coding14811416
WeirdML—29.8%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark: —, Qwen3-30B-A3B: 29.8 (#82)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—41.4%

Reasoning Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 22.2 (#204)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
CritPt11.3%0.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts14741398
Epoch Capabilities Index152.04139.63
Kagi LLM Benchmark—54.9%
Chess Puzzles—8%
DTBench—69.3%
LMCA—22.4%

Math Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 37.4 (#157)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%70.3%
LMArena Math14551394
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—47.8%
ProofBench17%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 41.8 (#105)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
GPQA Diamond89.8%70.1%
LMArena Expert14571396
Humanity's Last Exam40.6%—
Confabulations—12.3%

Multimodal Not comparable

Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24), Qwen3-30B-A3B: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Vision1306—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 49.5 (#132)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Non-English14641372
LMArena Chinese15091433
LMArena French14971418
LMArena German14971380
LMArena Korean14591331
LMArena Russian14661370
LMArena Spanish14721404
LMArena Japanese—1337

Instruction Following Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 72.0 (#142)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following14421363

Long Context Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 31.0 (#283)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query14511379
Fiction.LiveBench—40.6%

Writing & Preference Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39), Qwen3-30B-A3B: 55.6 (#143)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3-30B-A3B
LMArena Text14741384
LMArena Creative Writing14591317
LMArena Multi-Turn14771378
Short-Story Creative Writing—75.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark better than Qwen3-30B-A3B?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 38.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Muse Spark or Qwen3-30B-A3B better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 37.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen3-30B-A3B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-30B-A3B has 32.

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