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Model comparison

Muse Spark 1.3 vs Pixtral 12B

Muse Spark 1.3 has enough public results to be ranked (#27); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark 1.3 Meta

54.8

Rank #27 Confirmed

Pixtral 12B Mistral AI

31.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Muse Spark 1.3 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 1.3 leads 43.7 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 1.3.
  • Muse Spark 1.3 accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 128K.
  • Pixtral 12B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
ProviderMetaMistral AI
Noometry Index54.831.3
Released2026-09-022024-09-01
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 1.3: 56.6 (#21), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
CursorBench41.6%—
LMArena WebDev1657—
SciCode59.7%—
LMArena Coding1514—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 38.6 (#30), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
APEX-Agents57.8%—
GDP.pdf27.6%—

Reasoning Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 54.0 (#27), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
NYT Connections (extended)85.1%—
CritPt26%—
Chess Puzzles38%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1503—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench96.5%—
LMCA53.9%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
Epoch Capabilities Index156.75—

Math Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 73.1 (#21), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)74.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 446.3%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202599.2%—
ProofBench58%—
LMArena Math1494—

Knowledge Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 42.6 (#95), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
LMArena Expert1516—

Multimodal Muse Spark 1.3 leads

Muse Spark 1.3: 43.7 (#22), Pixtral 12B: 23.9 (#127)

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
LMArena Vision13091009
GeoBench—37%
LMArena Document1471—

Multilingual Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 57.4 (#8), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
LMArena Non-English1481—
LMArena Chinese1529—
LMArena French1524—
LMArena German1515—
LMArena Japanese1474—
LMArena Korean1501—
LMArena Russian1490—
LMArena Spanish1490—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 77.5 (#22), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
LMArena Instruction Following1477—

Long Context Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 45.6 (#32), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
LMArena Longer Query1488—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Muse Spark 1.3: 73.6 (#9), Pixtral 12B: —

BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Pixtral 12B
LMArena Text1490—
LMArena Creative Writing1455—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1906—
LMArena Multi-Turn1482—

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark 1.3 better than Pixtral 12B?

Muse Spark 1.3 has enough public results to be ranked (#27); Pixtral 12B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.3 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 1.3 lists at $1.25 and $4.25.

Which has the bigger context window?

Muse Spark 1.3 does, with 1.05M tokens against 128K.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark 1.3 and Pixtral 12B share?

1 benchmark has published results for both models. Muse Spark 1.3 has 37 scored results on Noometry and Pixtral 12B has 2.

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