# Muse Spark vs StarCoder 2 3B

> Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/muse-spark-vs-starcoder-2-3b
- Last updated: 2026-10-11
- Shared benchmarks: 1

## Summary

- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 1 category and StarCoder 2 3B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark leads 46.2 to 33.5.
- StarCoder 2 3B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Noometry Index | 50.6 | 36.3 |
| Rank | 46 | — |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69)
- StarCoder 2 3B: 33.5

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 51.5% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1481 | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 21.4% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 27.4% |

## Reasoning

- Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 152.04 | 88.76 |
| CritPt | 11.3% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1474 | — |
| WinoGrande | — | 57.1% |

## Math

- Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 88.9% | — |
| ProofBench | 17% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1455 | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 39% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 14.6% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 21.6% |

## Knowledge

- Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 89.8% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 40.6% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1457 | — |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | — | 34.2% |
| MMLU | — | 36.6% |

## Multimodal

- Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1306 | — |
| LMArena Document | 1444 | — |

## Multilingual

- Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| 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)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1442 | — |

## Long Context

- Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1451 | — |

## Writing & Preference

- Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39)
- StarCoder 2 3B: —

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | StarCoder 2 3B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1474 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1459 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1477 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Muse Spark better than StarCoder 2 3B?

Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); StarCoder 2 3B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

### Is Muse Spark or StarCoder 2 3B better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 33.5 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and StarCoder 2 3B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and StarCoder 2 3B has 7.