# Muse Spark 1.2 vs Phi-2

> Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-1-2-vs-phi-2
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both.
- Phi-2 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 50.3 | — |
| Rank | 48 | — |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $4.25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 54.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1533 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 12% | — |
| SciCode | 56.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1495 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 45.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 54.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 36.4% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 16% | — |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.87 | 107.94 |
| SimpleBench | 74.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 79.2% | — |
| CritPt | 17.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1486 | — |
| DTBench | 94.7% | — |
| LMCA | 48.4% | — |
| Adversarial NLI | — | 42.5% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 59.4% |
| HellaSwag | — | 53.6% |
| WinoGrande | — | 54.7% |

## Math

- Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 43% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1471 | — |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 60.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1480 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 75.9% |
| MMLU | — | 58.4% |
| OpenBookQA | — | 73.6% |
| TriviaQA | — | 45.2% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1478 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1511 | — |
| LMArena French | 1513 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1487 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1498 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1461 | — |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1475 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14)
- Phi-2: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | Phi-2 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1482 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1449 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1494 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark 1.2 better than Phi-2?

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#48); Phi-2 does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.2 and Phi-2 share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.2 has 31 scored results on Noometry and Phi-2 has 11.