# Muse Spark 1.2 vs QwQ-32B

> Muse Spark 1.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-1-2-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.2 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 1.2 leads 51.3 to 23.7.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 50.3 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 48 | 159 |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $4.25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1495 | 1333 |
| DeepSWE | 54.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1533 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 12% | — |
| SciCode | 56.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 36.4% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 16% | — |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1486 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.87 | 137.6 |
| SimpleBench | 74.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 79.2% | — |
| CritPt | 17.7% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| DTBench | 94.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| LMCA | 48.4% | — |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1471 | 1359 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 59.2% |
| ProofBench | 43% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1480 | 1324 |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 65.3% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 60.3% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1305 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1478 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1511 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1513 | 1336 |
| LMArena Russian | 1487 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1498 | 1354 |
| LMArena German | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1279 |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1461 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1475 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1482 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1449 | 1288 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | 1257 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1494 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark 1.2 better than QwQ-32B?

Muse Spark 1.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark 1.2 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.2 and QwQ-32B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.2 has 31 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.