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Model comparison

Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Muse Spark 1.3

Gemini 3.6 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.1 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 35 shared benchmarks.

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Muse Spark 1.3 Meta

54.8

Rank #27 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 35 benchmarks with published results for both. Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher in 2 categories and Muse Spark 1.3 in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 67.8 to 42.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath Tier 4: 22% for Gemini 3.6 Flash and 46.3% for Muse Spark 1.3.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.3.

Side by side

Gemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
ProviderGoogleMeta
Noometry Index54.154.8
Released2026-07-212026-09-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1.05M1.05M
Max output66K131K
Input $ / M tokens$0.75$1.25
Output $ / M tokens$3.75$4.25
Results tracked4637

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark 1.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48), Muse Spark 1.3: 56.6 (#21)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena WebDev15381657
SciCode52.7%59.7%
LMArena Coding14911514
DeepSWE46.7%—
FrontierCode34.4%—
CursorBench—41.6%
WeirdML56.1%—
ALE-Bench715.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Muse Spark 1.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65), Muse Spark 1.3: 38.6 (#30)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
APEX-Agents46.9%57.8%
GDP.pdf14%27.6%

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22), Muse Spark 1.3: 54.0 (#27)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
NYT Connections (extended)89%85.1%
CritPt10.6%26%
Chess Puzzles43%38%
LMArena Hard Prompts14851503
Mystery Game Puzzles30%25%
DTBench95.5%96.5%
LMCA44.9%53.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.25156.75
ARC-AGI-260.4%—
ARC-AGI-191.2%—
Bench to the Future 3—0.14

Math Muse Spark 1.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40), Muse Spark 1.3: 73.1 (#21)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)58.9%74.4%
FrontierMath Tier 422%46.3%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.2%99.2%
ProofBench36%58%
LMArena Math15051494
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions70.8%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8), Muse Spark 1.3: 42.6 (#95)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena Expert14881516
GPQA Diamond94.1%—
SimpleQA Verified66.2%—

Multimodal Muse Spark 1.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64), Muse Spark 1.3: 43.7 (#22)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena Vision12981309
LMArena Document14561471
Blueprint-Bench 231.2%—
Furniture Assembly23.3%—

Multilingual Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19), Muse Spark 1.3: 57.4 (#8)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena Non-English14691481
LMArena Chinese15311529
LMArena French15041524
LMArena German14781515
LMArena Japanese14761474
LMArena Korean14311501
LMArena Russian14871490
LMArena Spanish14751490

Instruction Following Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33), Muse Spark 1.3: 77.5 (#22)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena Instruction Following14661477

Long Context Too close to call

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50), Muse Spark 1.3: 45.6 (#32)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena Longer Query14741488

Writing & Preference Muse Spark 1.3 leads

Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27), Muse Spark 1.3: 73.6 (#9)

BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena Text14791490
LMArena Creative Writing14651455
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16041906
LMArena Multi-Turn14811482

Frequently asked questions

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash better than Muse Spark 1.3?

Gemini 3.6 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 score almost the same on the Noometry Index (54.1 vs 54.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Muse Spark 1.3?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.3 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.

Is Gemini 3.6 Flash or Muse Spark 1.3 better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.3 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.6 versus 50.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Both accept 1.05M tokens.

How many benchmarks do Gemini 3.6 Flash and Muse Spark 1.3 share?

35 benchmarks have published results for both models. Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46 scored results on Noometry and Muse Spark 1.3 has 37.

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