Model comparison
Muse Spark vs Qwen3 8B
Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
Meta
Alibaba (Qwen)Summary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 36.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.8% for Muse Spark and 56.8% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 33.7 |
| Released | 2026-04-08 | 2025-04 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | — | 131K |
| Max output | — | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.18 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $0.70 |
| Results tracked | 27 | 11 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Spark leads
Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69), Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 51.5% | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Muse Spark: —, Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |
Reasoning Muse Spark leads
Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67), Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 11.3% | 0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | 136.17 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |
Math Muse Spark leads
Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66), Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | 56.1% |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |
Knowledge Muse Spark leads
Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13), Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | 56.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1464 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | — |
| LMArena French | 1497 | — |
| LMArena German | 1497 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1472 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | — |
Long Context Muse Spark leads
Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69), Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | — |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39), Qwen3 8B: —
| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Muse Spark better than Qwen3 8B?
Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Muse Spark or Qwen3 8B better for coding?
Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen3 8B share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.