# Muse Spark vs Phi-3.5-mini

> Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-phi-3-5-mini
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 0

## Summary

- The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark leads 46.2 to 34.6.
- Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Microsoft |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 36.9 |
| Rank | 46 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 51.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 32.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 38.5% |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 11.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | — |
| PIQA | — | 81% |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 86.2% |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | — |
| BoolQ | — | 78% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1464 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | — |
| LMArena French | 1497 | — |
| LMArena German | 1497 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1472 | — |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | — |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- Phi-3.5-mini: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Phi-3.5-mini |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Muse Spark or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.