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Model comparison

Muse Spark 1.2 vs QwQ-32B

Muse Spark 1.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 16 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark 1.2 Meta

50.3

Rank #48 Confirmed

QwQ-32B Alibaba (Qwen)

39.8

Rank #159 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 16 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher in 7 categories and QwQ-32B in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Muse Spark 1.2 leads 51.3 to 23.7.
  • QwQ-32B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.339.8
Released2026-08-052024-11-28
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1.05M—
Max output131K—
Input $ / M tokens$1.25—
Output $ / M tokens$4.25—
Results tracked3136

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 49.2 (#51), QwQ-32B: 35.4 (#226)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Coding14951333
DeepSWE54.9%—
Aider Polyglot—20.9%
LMArena WebDev1533—
FrontierSWE12%—
SciCode56.4%—
WeirdML60.3%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—44.6%
LiveBench Coding—72.2%
BigCodeBench Complete—54.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 29.4 (#87), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
APEX-Agents36.4%—
GDP.pdf16%—

Reasoning Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 51.3 (#34), QwQ-32B: 23.7 (#174)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Hard Prompts14861325
Epoch Capabilities Index154.87137.6
SimpleBench74.5%—
NYT Connections (extended)79.2%—
CritPt17.7%—
Chess Puzzles—5%
LiveBench Reasoning—83.5%
DTBench94.7%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—65%
LMCA48.4%—
ForecastBench—58.3
LiveBench—72%

Math Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 46.4 (#70), QwQ-32B: 38.0 (#143)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Math14711359
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—59.2%
ProofBench43%—
LiveBench Math—77.8%

Knowledge Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 54.1 (#53), QwQ-32B: 37.2 (#158)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Expert14801324
GPQA Diamond—65.3%
SimpleQA Verified60.3%—
Confabulations—15.6%

Multimodal Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.2: 43.4 (#25), QwQ-32B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Vision1305—

Multilingual Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 57.1 (#11), QwQ-32B: 44.8 (#176)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Non-English14781305
LMArena Chinese15111378
LMArena French15131336
LMArena Russian14871297
LMArena Spanish14981354
LMArena German—1313
LMArena Japanese—1262
LMArena Korean—1279

Instruction Following Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 76.7 (#36), QwQ-32B: 72.6 (#137)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Instruction Following14611297
LiveBench Instruction Following—81.8%

Long Context QwQ-32B leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 45.2 (#48), QwQ-32B: 49.0 (#11)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Longer Query14751308
Fiction.LiveBench—83.3%

Writing & Preference Muse Spark 1.2 leads

Muse Spark 1.2: 72.3 (#14), QwQ-32B: 50.6 (#180)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2QwQ-32B
LMArena Text14821329
LMArena Creative Writing14491288
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18401257
LMArena Multi-Turn14941314
Short-Story Creative Writing—80.2%
LiveBench Language—51.4%

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark 1.2 better than QwQ-32B?

Muse Spark 1.2 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 39.8 on the Noometry Index.

Is Muse Spark 1.2 or QwQ-32B better for coding?

Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 35.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.2 and QwQ-32B share?

16 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.2 has 31 scored results on Noometry and QwQ-32B has 36.

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