# Muse Spark vs Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct

> Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-qwen3-next-80b-a3b-instruct
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 16

## Summary

- They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 8 categories and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 41.8.
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 43.0 |
| Rank | 46 | 102 |
| Context | — | 131K |
| Input $/M | — | $0.50 |
| Output $/M | — | $2 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 42.5 (#98)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1440 |
| SciCode | 51.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 31.1 (#81)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | 1428 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 66.7% |
| CritPt | 11.3% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | — |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 38.8 (#126)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1455 | 1440 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 46.7% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 41.8 (#106)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | 1417 |
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 78.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 9.3% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 63% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 52.1 (#93)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1464 | 1407 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | 1460 |
| LMArena French | 1497 | 1413 |
| LMArena German | 1497 | 1417 |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | 1364 |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | 1404 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1472 | 1435 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1395 |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 70.8 (#159)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | 1389 |
| IFEval | — | 81% |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 37.0 (#223)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | 1403 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 55.6% |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct: 58.0 (#121)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | 1417 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | 1334 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | 1416 |
| WildBench | — | 80.7% |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 43.0 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark or Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3-Next 80B-A3B Instruct has 25.