# Muse Spark 1.2 vs StarCoder 2 7B

> Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#44); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-1-2-vs-starcoder-2-7b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 7B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark 1.2 leads 48.6 to 34.2.
- StarCoder 2 7B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 49.8 | 36.5 |
| Rank | 44 | — |
| Context | 1.05M | — |
| Input $/M | $1.25 | — |
| Output $/M | $4.25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark 1.2: 48.6 (#49)
- StarCoder 2 7B: 34.2

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| DeepSWE | 54.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1532 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 12% | — |
| SciCode | 56.4% | — |
| WeirdML | 60.3% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1497 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 27.7% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 29.9% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark 1.2: 29.5 (#77)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 36.4% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 16% | — |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark 1.2: 50.4 (#32)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 155.18 | 92.92 |
| SimpleBench | 74.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 79.2% | — |
| CritPt | 17.7% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1490 | — |
| DTBench | 94.7% | — |
| LMCA | 48.4% | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Muse Spark 1.2: 43.8 (#68)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| ProofBench | 43% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 32.7% |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark 1.2: 53.9 (#49)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 60.3% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1485 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 38.7% |
| MMLU | — | 38.8% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark 1.2: 42.6 (#24)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1304 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark 1.2: 57.4 (#10)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1479 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1519 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1494 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark 1.2: 77.1 (#30)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1466 | — |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark 1.2: 45.4 (#35)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1483 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark 1.2: 72.6 (#14)
- StarCoder 2 7B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark 1.2 | StarCoder 2 7B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1486 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1444 | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1504 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark 1.2 better than StarCoder 2 7B?

Muse Spark 1.2 has enough public results to be ranked (#44); StarCoder 2 7B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Muse Spark 1.2 or StarCoder 2 7B better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 48.6 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.2 and StarCoder 2 7B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.2 has 28 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 7B has 7.