# Muse Spark 1.1 vs phi-3-medium 14B

> Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-1-1-vs-phi-3-medium-14b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in 3 categories and phi-3-medium 14B in 0 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 52.8 to 9.1.
- phi-3-medium 14B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 49.9 | 29.1 |
| Rank | 43 | 306 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $4.25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark 1.1: 50.8 (#38)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 36.3 (#198)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 53.3% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1542 | — |
| SciCode | 58.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 37.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1497 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 48.7% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark 1.1: 33.9 (#45)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| τ²-bench Banking | 40.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 7.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 15% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,520 | — |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark 1.1: 45.9 (#41)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.32 | 121.18 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 84.9% | — |
| CritPt | 15.1% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1486 | — |
| DTBench | 94.4% | — |
| LMCA | 49.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 52.5% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 55.8% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 81.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 82.4% |
| WinoGrande | — | 81.5% |

## Math

- Muse Spark 1.1: 44.0 (#67)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 25.2 (#249)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 39% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1477 | — |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 17.6% |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark 1.1: 52.8 (#55)
- phi-3-medium 14B: 9.1 (#301)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 27.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 57.8% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1480 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 91.6% |
| MMLU | — | 78% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 87.4% |
| TriviaQA | — | 73.9% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark 1.1: 41.9 (#28)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1292 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1465 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark 1.1: 56.8 (#16)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1471 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1518 | — |
| LMArena French | 1494 | — |
| LMArena German | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1445 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1482 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1471 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark 1.1: 76.8 (#36)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1457 | — |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#55)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1463 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark 1.1: 73.6 (#11)
- phi-3-medium 14B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | phi-3-medium 14B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1440 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1927 | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1260 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1484 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than phi-3-medium 14B?

Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 29.1 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark 1.1 or phi-3-medium 14B better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.8 versus 36.3 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.1 and phi-3-medium 14B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.1 has 36 scored results on Noometry and phi-3-medium 14B has 13.