Model comparison

Muse Spark vs Phi-3.5-mini

Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

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Muse Spark Meta

50.6

Rank #46 Confirmed

Phi-3.5-mini Microsoft

36.9

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • The widest gap is in coding, where Muse Spark leads 46.2 to 34.6.
  • Phi-3.5-mini has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Muse Spark and Phi-3.5-mini specifications
Muse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
ProviderMetaMicrosoft
Noometry Index50.636.9
Released2026-04-082024-08-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked275

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 46.2 (#69), Phi-3.5-mini: 34.6 (#232)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
SciCode51.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—32.8%
LMArena Coding1481—
BigCodeBench Complete—38.5%

Reasoning Not comparable

Muse Spark: 35.9 (#67), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
CritPt11.3%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1474—
Epoch Capabilities Index152.04—
PIQA—81%

Math Not comparable

Muse Spark: 47.8 (#66), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%—
ProofBench17%—
LMArena Math1455—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%—
GSM8K—86.2%

Knowledge Not comparable

Muse Spark: 65.7 (#13), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
GPQA Diamond89.8%—
Humanity's Last Exam40.6%—
LMArena Expert1457—
BoolQ—78%

Multimodal Not comparable

Muse Spark: 43.4 (#24), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Vision1306—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Not comparable

Muse Spark: 56.1 (#24), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Non-English1464—
LMArena Chinese1509—
LMArena French1497—
LMArena German1497—
LMArena Korean1459—
LMArena Russian1466—
LMArena Spanish1472—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Muse Spark: 75.9 (#51), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Instruction Following1442—

Long Context Not comparable

Muse Spark: 44.4 (#69), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Longer Query1451—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Muse Spark: 66.0 (#39), Phi-3.5-mini: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkMuse SparkPhi-3.5-mini
LMArena Text1474—
LMArena Creative Writing1459—
LMArena Multi-Turn1477—

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark better than Phi-3.5-mini?

Muse Spark has enough public results to be ranked (#46); Phi-3.5-mini does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Is Muse Spark or Phi-3.5-mini better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.2 versus 34.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Phi-3.5-mini share?

0 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Phi-3.5-mini has 5.

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