# Muse Spark vs o1

> Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-o1
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 22

## Summary

- They share 22 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 8 categories and o1 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 41.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is Humanity's Last Exam: 40.6% for Muse Spark and 8% for o1.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 40.9 |
| Rank | 46 | 143 |
| Context | — | 200K |
| Input $/M | — | $15 |
| Output $/M | — | $60 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- o1: 46.1 (#70)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1367 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 61.7% |
| SciCode | 51.5% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 47.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 69.7% |
| CadEval | — | 56% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 89% |
| MBPP+ | — | 80.2% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark: —
- o1: 24.6 (#117)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 51.1% |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- o1: 27.9 (#111)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | 1371 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | 141.91 |
| SimpleBench | — | 41.7% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 30.7% |
| CritPt | 11.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 15% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.7% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 91.6% |
| DTBench | — | 74.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65.5% |
| LMCA | — | 22.3% |
| LiveBench | — | 75.7% |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- o1: 36.1 (#175)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | 73.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | 1388 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | 9.3% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 14.7% |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 80.3% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 94.7% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- o1: 41.5 (#110)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | 76.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | 8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | 1361 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 41.1% |
| Confabulations | — | 11.7% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- o1: 34.2 (#93)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | 1168 |
| GeoBench | — | 80% |
| VPCT | — | 37% |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 41.4% |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- o1: 48.6 (#142)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1464 | 1358 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | 1394 |
| LMArena French | 1497 | 1344 |
| LMArena German | 1497 | 1337 |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | 1396 |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | 1356 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1472 | 1345 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1346 |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)
- o1: 74.8 (#86)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | 1367 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.5% |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- o1: 50.3 (#9)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | 1378 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- o1: 55.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | o1 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | 1366 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | 1348 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | 1369 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 70.2% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 65.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than o1?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 40.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark or o1 better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (46.2 vs 46.1); test both on your own repository before choosing.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and o1 share?

22 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and o1 has 52.