# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Muse Spark 1.2

> Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/deepseek-coder-1-3b-vs-muse-spark-1-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Spark 1.2 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark 1.2 leads 49.2 to 31.2.
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 50.3 |
| Rank | — | 48 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | — | $4.25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1533 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 12% |
| SciCode | — | 56.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.3% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1495 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 36.4% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 16% |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 154.87 |
| SimpleBench | — | 74.5% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 79.2% |
| CritPt | — | 17.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1486 |
| DTBench | — | 94.7% |
| LMCA | — | 48.4% |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 43% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1471 |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 60.3% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1480 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1305 |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1478 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1511 |
| LMArena French | — | 1513 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1498 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1461 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1475 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1449 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1840 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1494 |

## FAQ

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B better than Muse Spark 1.2?

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is DeepSeek Coder 1.3B or Muse Spark 1.2 better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do DeepSeek Coder 1.3B and Muse Spark 1.2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.2 has 31.