Noometry

Model comparison

Muse Spark vs Qwen3.6 35B-A3B

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 37.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark Meta

50.3

Rank #41 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba (Qwen)

37.2

Rank #194 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 4 categories and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B in 0 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 51.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 51.5% for Muse Spark and 35.8% for Qwen3.6 35B-A3B.
  • Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.337.2
Released2026-04-082026-04-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window—262K
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.25
Output $ / M tokens—$1.49
Results tracked2714

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 45.6 (#65), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 36.7 (#190)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
SciCode51.5%35.8%
WeirdML—34.5%
LMArena Coding1482—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark: —, Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 21.9 (#126)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
Terminal-Bench—23%

Reasoning Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 34.9 (#61), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 27.2 (#112)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
CritPt11.3%0.3%
Epoch Capabilities Index152.09143.92
NYT Connections (extended)—41.6%
Chess Puzzles—26%
LMArena Hard Prompts1475—
Mystery Game Puzzles—22%
DTBench—73.9%
LMCA—29.7%
Surface Evolver Bench—44.4%

Math Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 46.8 (#57), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 37.9 (#90)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%86.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—20.4%
ProofBench17%—
LMArena Math1455—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—

Knowledge Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 65.7 (#12), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: 51.4 (#63)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
GPQA Diamond89.8%84.8%
Humanity's Last Exam40.6%—
LMArena Expert1458—

Multimodal Not comparable

Muse Spark: 42.7 (#23), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Vision1306—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Not comparable

Muse Spark: 56.3 (#23), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Non-English1464—
LMArena Chinese1507—
LMArena French1497—
LMArena German1497—
LMArena Korean1457—
LMArena Russian1467—
LMArena Spanish1471—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Muse Spark: 76.1 (#47), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Instruction Following1443—

Long Context Not comparable

Muse Spark: 44.4 (#65), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Longer Query1451—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Muse Spark: 66.2 (#37), Qwen3.6 35B-A3B: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 35B-A3B
LMArena Text1474—
LMArena Creative Writing1460—
LMArena Multi-Turn1477—

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark better than Qwen3.6 35B-A3B?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 37.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Muse Spark or Qwen3.6 35B-A3B better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.6 versus 36.7 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 35B-A3B has 14.

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