# Muse Spark vs Qwen3 8B

> Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-qwen3-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 5

## Summary

- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 5 categories and Qwen3 8B in 0 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 36.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 89.8% for Muse Spark and 56.8% for Qwen3 8B.
- Qwen3 8B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 33.7 |
| Rank | 46 | 238 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.18 |
| Output $/M | — | $0.70 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- Qwen3 8B: 34.0 (#248)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 51.5% | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Muse Spark: —
- Qwen3 8B: 30.2 (#78)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | — | 42.6% |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- Qwen3 8B: 16.6 (#303)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 11.3% | 0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | 136.17 |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | — |
| DTBench | — | 59.7% |
| LMCA | — | 8.8% |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- Qwen3 8B: 34.9 (#191)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | 56.1% |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- Qwen3 8B: 36.1 (#173)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | 56.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 4.8% |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | — |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | — |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- Qwen3 8B: 37.9 (#210)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 62.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- Qwen3 8B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than Qwen3 8B?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 33.7 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark or Qwen3 8B better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 34.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen3 8B share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3 8B has 11.