# Muse Spark vs QwQ-32B

> Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-qwq-32b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 19

## Summary

- They share 19 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 37.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 88.9% for Muse Spark and 59.2% for QwQ-32B.
- QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 39.8 |
| Rank | 46 | 159 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | 1333 |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 20.9% |
| SciCode | 51.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 44.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 72.2% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 54.4% |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | 1325 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | 137.6 |
| CritPt | 11.3% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 83.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 65% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 72% |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | 59.2% |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | 1359 |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| LiveBench Math | — | 77.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | 65.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | 1324 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |
| Confabulations | — | 15.6% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- QwQ-32B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1464 | 1305 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | 1378 |
| LMArena French | 1497 | 1336 |
| LMArena German | 1497 | 1313 |
| LMArena Korean | 1459 | 1279 |
| LMArena Russian | 1466 | 1297 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1472 | 1354 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1262 |

## Instruction Following

- Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51)
- QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 81.8% |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 83.3% |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | QwQ-32B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | 1329 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | 1288 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | 1314 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 80.2% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1257 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.4% |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than QwQ-32B?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.6 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Muse Spark or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and QwQ-32B share?

19 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.