# DeepSeek Coder 1.3B vs Muse Spark

> Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); 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
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- 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 in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark leads 46.2 to 31.2.
- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 35.0 | 50.6 |
| Rank | — | 46 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: 31.2 (#287)
- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | — | 51.5% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 22.8% | — |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1481 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 29.6% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 60.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 54.8% | — |

## Reasoning

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 63.6 | 152.04 |
| CritPt | — | 11.3% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1474 |
| WinoGrande | 53.3% | — |

## Math

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 88.9% |
| ProofBench | — | 17% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1455 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 39% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 14.6% |
| GSM8K | 4.4% | — |

## Knowledge

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 40.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1457 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 25.4% | — |
| MMLU | 25.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1306 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1444 |

## Multilingual

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1464 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1509 |
| LMArena French | — | 1497 |
| LMArena German | — | 1497 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1466 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1472 |

## Instruction Following

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1442 |

## Long Context

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1451 |

## Writing & Preference

- DeepSeek Coder 1.3B: —
- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)

| Benchmark | DeepSeek Coder 1.3B | Muse Spark |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1474 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1459 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1477 |

## FAQ

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

Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); DeepSeek Coder 1.3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 31.2 in the Noometry coding category.

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

1 benchmark has published results for both models. DeepSeek Coder 1.3B has 9 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark has 27.