BenchLeader

GPT-5.5 Instant vs Muse Spark 1.1

Verdict
  • Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 60.5.
  • GPT-5.5 Instant is stronger in agents & tools, human preference.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in coding, composite, instruction following, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is 5.6× cheaper ($2.00 vs $11.25 per 1M blended).
  • Muse Spark 1.1 streams 1.5× faster (194 vs 129 tokens per second).
MetricGPT-5.5 InstantMuse Spark 1.1
BenchLeader Index60.565.0
Agents & tools score70.762.7
Coding score61.168.1
Composite score62.972.3
Human preference score67.566.3
Instruction following score69.877.8
Knowledge score69.473.2
Long context score61.465.4
Maths score42.552.2
Multimodal score59.765.0
Reasoning score62.669.2
Blended price $/M$11.25$2.00
Output speed129 tok/s194 tok/s
Time to first answer16.8 s2.6 s
Context window400k1.0M
GPQA Diamond82.5%
FrontierMath Tiers 1–326.3%
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%
OTIS Mock AIME68.1%
SimpleQA Verified57.8%
SciCode48.6%58.2%
APEX-Agents41.9%
ProofBench39.0%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.5154.6
LMArena Text14741492
LMArena Hard Prompts14911511
LMArena Coding15141531
LMArena WebDev1541
LMArena Vision12511293
LMArena Agent-2.6
AA Intelligence Index26.834.3
IFBench71.5%
AA-LCR70.0%77.7%
AA-Omniscience11.228.1
Terminal-Bench Hard42.4%
GPQA Diamond (AA)84.7%89.8%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)21.6%46.2%
SciCode (AA)52.5%58.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)49.4%
SWE-Bench Pro61.5%
MCP Atlas88.1%
MultiChallenge75.3%
PRBench Finance55.0%
PRBench Legal57.0%
MultiNRC65.6%
EQ-Bench 41260

Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

GPT-5.5 Instant vs Muse Spark 1.1: questions

Is GPT-5.5 Instant better than Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 60.5. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.1 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-10, but check the category scores for your use.
Is GPT-5.5 Instant better than Muse Spark 1.1 for coding?
Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in coding (68 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is GPT-5.5 Instant better than Muse Spark 1.1 for agentic tasks?
GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher in agentic tasks (71 vs 63 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 Instant or Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper: $2.00 against $11.25 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, GPT-5.5 Instant or Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 streams faster: 194 against 129 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.0M against 400k tokens.