# Muse Spark 1.1 vs QwQ-32B

> Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-1-1-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 47.1 to 23.7.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 49.9 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 51 | 159 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $4.25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark 1.1: 51.3 (#40)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1498 | 1333 |
| DeepSWE | 53.3% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1542 | — |
| SciCode | 58.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark 1.1: 30.8 (#73)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 31.8% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | 40.5% | — |
| GBAEval | 7.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 15% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,520 | — |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark 1.1: 47.1 (#44)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1486 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.21 | 137.6 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 84.9% | — |
| CritPt | 15.1% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 94.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 49.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 52.5% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Muse Spark 1.1: 45.5 (#76)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1483 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| ProofBench | 39% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark 1.1: 53.1 (#59)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1478 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 57.8% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark 1.1: 42.6 (#29)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1293 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1465 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark 1.1: 56.7 (#17)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1472 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1518 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1494 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1466 | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1451 | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | 1458 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1483 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1464 | 1354 |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark 1.1: 76.5 (#39)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1457 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#58)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1462 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark 1.1: 73.4 (#11)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.1 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1479 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1437 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1927 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1485 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1260 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than QwQ-32B?

Muse Spark 1.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.9 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark 1.1 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.3 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.1 and QwQ-32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.1 has 37 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.