# MiniMax-01 vs Muse Spark 1.2

> Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/minimax-01-vs-muse-spark-1-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Muse Spark 1.2 leads 51.3 to 22.4.
- MiniMax-01 is cheaper at $0.20 / $1.10 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.2.
- Muse Spark 1.2 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.
- MiniMax-01 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | MiniMax | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 33.4 | 50.3 |
| Rank | — | 48 |
| Context | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | $0.20 | $1.25 |
| Output $/M | $1.10 | $4.25 |
| Weights | Open | Proprietary |

## Coding

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | — | 54.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1533 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 12% |
| SciCode | — | 56.4% |
| WeirdML | — | 60.3% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1495 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 36.4% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 16% |

## Reasoning

- MiniMax-01: 22.4
- Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | — | 74.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 42.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 79.2% |
| CritPt | — | 17.7% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1486 |
| DTBench | — | 94.7% |
| LMCA | — | 48.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 154.87 |

## Math

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | — | 43% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1471 |

## Knowledge

- MiniMax-01: 33.6
- Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 60.3% |
| Confabulations | 23.9% | — |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1480 |

## Multimodal

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1305 |

## Multilingual

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1478 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1511 |
| LMArena French | — | 1513 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1487 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1498 |

## Instruction Following

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1461 |

## Long Context

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1475 |

## Writing & Preference

- MiniMax-01: —
- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14)

| Benchmark | MiniMax-01 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1482 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1449 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1840 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1494 |

## FAQ

### Is MiniMax-01 better than Muse Spark 1.2?

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); MiniMax-01 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Which is cheaper, MiniMax-01 or Muse Spark 1.2?

MiniMax-01 is cheaper. It lists at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.10 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.2 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Muse Spark 1.2 does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

### How many benchmarks do MiniMax-01 and Muse Spark 1.2 share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. MiniMax-01 has 2 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.2 has 31.