Model comparison

Muse Spark 1.1 vs Pixtral 12B

Muse Spark 1.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#51); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark 1.1 Meta

49.9

Rank #51 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

31.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in 1 category and Pixtral 12B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 42.6 to 23.9.
  • Pixtral 12B is cheaper at $0.15 / $0.15 per million input/output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.1.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse Spark 1.1 and Pixtral 12B specifications
Muse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index49.931.3
Released2026-04-082024-09-01
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M128K
Max output131K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1.25$0.15
Output $ / M tokens$4.25$0.15
Results tracked372

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 51.3 (#40), Pixtral 12B: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
DeepSWE53.3%—
LMArena WebDev1542—
SciCode58.8%—
LMArena Coding1498—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 30.8 (#73), Pixtral 12B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
APEX-Agents31.8%—
τ²-bench Banking40.5%—
GBAEval7.9%—
GDP.pdf15%—
Vending-Bench 26,520—

Reasoning Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 47.1 (#44), Pixtral 12B: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
NYT Connections (extended)84.9%—
CritPt15.1%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1486—
DTBench94.4%—
LMCA49.9%—
Surface Evolver Bench52.5%—
Epoch Capabilities Index154.21—

Math Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 45.5 (#76), Pixtral 12B: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
ProofBench39%—
LMArena Math1483—

Knowledge Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 53.1 (#59), Pixtral 12B: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
SimpleQA Verified57.8%—
LMArena Expert1478—

Multimodal Muse Spark 1.1 leads

Muse Spark 1.1: 42.6 (#29), Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Vision12931009
GeoBench—37%
LMArena Document1465—

Multilingual Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 56.7 (#17), Pixtral 12B: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Non-English1472—
LMArena Chinese1518—
LMArena French1494—
LMArena German1466—
LMArena Japanese1451—
LMArena Korean1458—
LMArena Russian1483—
LMArena Spanish1464—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 76.5 (#39), Pixtral 12B: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1457—

Long Context Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 44.8 (#58), Pixtral 12B: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1462—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.1: 73.4 (#11), Pixtral 12B: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Pixtral 12B
LMArena Text1479—
LMArena Creative Writing1437—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1927—
EQ-Bench 41260—
LMArena Multi-Turn1485—

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than Pixtral 12B?

Muse Spark 1.1 has enough public results to be ranked (#51); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.1 or Pixtral 12B?

Pixtral 12B is cheaper. It lists at $0.15 per million input tokens and $0.15 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.1 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Muse Spark 1.1 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.1 and Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.1 has 37 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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