Noometry

Model comparison

Muse Spark vs Qwen3.6 Plus

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 47.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 23 shared benchmarks.

Muse Spark Meta

50.3

Rank #41 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Plus Alibaba (Qwen)

47.3

Rank #54 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 23 benchmarks with published results for both. Muse Spark scores higher in 6 categories and Qwen3.6 Plus in 2 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Muse Spark leads 65.7 to 56.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 51.5% for Muse Spark and 40.7% for Qwen3.6 Plus.

Side by side

Muse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
ProviderMetaAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index50.347.3
Released2026-04-082026-03-31
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.50
Output $ / M tokens—$3
Results tracked2737

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Category by category

Coding Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 45.6 (#65), Qwen3.6 Plus: 40.6 (#125)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
SciCode51.5%40.7%
LMArena Coding14821467
SWE-bench Verified—57.9%
LMArena WebDev—1461
ALE-Bench—670.15

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Muse Spark: —, Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
Vending-Bench 2—5,115

Reasoning Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 34.9 (#61), Qwen3.6 Plus: 28.5 (#89)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
CritPt11.3%2.9%
LMArena Hard Prompts14751449
Epoch Capabilities Index152.09147.67
NYT Connections (extended)—60.3%
Chess Puzzles—17%
Thematic Generalization—59.5%
Mystery Game Puzzles—12%
DTBench—81.9%
LMCA—33.1%

Math Qwen3.6 Plus leads

Muse Spark: 46.8 (#57), Qwen3.6 Plus: 50.6 (#44)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202588.9%93.3%
LMArena Math14551450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)39%26.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)14.6%8.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—38.2%
ProofBench17%—

Knowledge Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 65.7 (#12), Qwen3.6 Plus: 56.1 (#40)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
GPQA Diamond89.8%88.4%
LMArena Expert14581456
Humanity's Last Exam40.6%—
SimpleQA Verified—44.1%

Multimodal Not comparable

Muse Spark: 42.7 (#23), Qwen3.6 Plus: —

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Vision1306—
LMArena Document1444—

Multilingual Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 56.3 (#23), Qwen3.6 Plus: 53.5 (#66)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Non-English14641424
LMArena Chinese15071478
LMArena French14971454
LMArena German14971451
LMArena Korean14571381
LMArena Russian14671434
LMArena Spanish14711432
LMArena Japanese—1389

Instruction Following Too close to call

Muse Spark: 76.1 (#47), Qwen3.6 Plus: 75.2 (#70)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Instruction Following14431425

Long Context Too close to call

Muse Spark: 44.4 (#65), Qwen3.6 Plus: 45.1 (#48)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Longer Query14511440
CL-bench—20.3%

Writing & Preference Muse Spark leads

Muse Spark: 66.2 (#37), Qwen3.6 Plus: 62.4 (#78)

BenchmarkMuse SparkQwen3.6 Plus
LMArena Text14741437
LMArena Creative Writing14601405
LMArena Multi-Turn14771438

Frequently asked questions

Is Muse Spark better than Qwen3.6 Plus?

Muse Spark is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.3 to 47.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Muse Spark or Qwen3.6 Plus better for coding?

Muse Spark scores higher on coding benchmarks: 45.6 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Muse Spark and Qwen3.6 Plus share?

23 benchmarks have published results for both models. Muse Spark has 27 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Plus has 37.

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