# Muse Spark vs Qwen1.5-72B

> Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-qwen1-5-72b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 17

## Summary

- They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen1.5-72B in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 11.5.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.8% for Muse Spark and 28.8% for Qwen1.5-72B.
- Qwen1.5-72B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 30.8 |
| Rank | 46 | 285 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 31.9 (#277)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1165 |
| SciCode | 51.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 33.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 40.3% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 59.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 61.6% |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 22.2 (#203)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | 1148 |
| CritPt | 11.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | — |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#205)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1455 | 1164 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 11.5 (#300)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | 28.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | 1136 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- Qwen1.5-72B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 33.2 (#253)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1464 | 1135 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | 1186 |
| LMArena French | 1497 | 1159 |
| LMArena German | 1497 | 1084 |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | 1050 |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | 1104 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1472 | 1110 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1061 |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 59.3 (#256)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | 1141 |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 35.1 (#243)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | 1157 |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- Qwen1.5-72B: 37.3 (#258)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen1.5-72B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | 1166 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | 1137 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | 1160 |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than Qwen1.5-72B?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 30.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark or Qwen1.5-72B better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 31.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen1.5-72B share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen1.5-72B has 22.