BenchLeader

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Muse Spark 1.1

Verdict
  • GPT-5.5 Pro (xhigh) leads on quality: 67.1 vs 65.2.
  • GPT-5.5 Pro (xhigh) is stronger in maths, reasoning.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, human preference, instruction following, knowledge, multimodal.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is 34× cheaper ($2.00 vs $67.50 per 1M blended).
  • Muse Spark 1.1 streams 52.5× faster (210 vs 4 tokens per second).
MetricGPT-5.5 Pro (xhigh)Muse Spark 1.1
BenchLeader Index67.165.2
Maths score74.562.7
Reasoning score80.169.2
Agents & tools score62.6
Coding score68.0
Human preference score66.2
Instruction following score77.8
Knowledge score70.5
Multimodal score64.8
Blended price $/M$67.50$2.00
Output speed4 tok/s210 tok/s
Time to first answer3.5 s2.9 s
Context window1.1M1.0M
FrontierMath Tiers 1–387.7%
FrontierMath Tier 478.0%
SimpleQA Verified57.8%
SciCode58.2%
APEX-Agents41.9%
ProofBench39.0%
Epoch Capabilities Index154.6
LMArena Text1493
LMArena Hard Prompts1513
LMArena Coding1531
LMArena WebDev1542
LMArena Vision1294
LMArena Agent-3
SWE-Bench Pro61.5%
MCP Atlas88.1%
MultiChallenge75.3%
PRBench Finance55.0%
PRBench Legal57.0%
MultiNRC65.6%
EQ-Bench 41260
ARC-AGI-195.0%
ARC-AGI-284.2%
CritPt30.6%
FORTRESS12.4%
SWE-Bench Pro (private)51.5%
VTB44.8%
LMArena Maths1486
LMArena Creative Writing1451
LMArena Instruction Following1471
LMArena Multi-turn1497
LMArena Longer Queries1481
LMArena Document1480
DeepSWE53.3%
LMCA53.9%
DTBench96.0%
GBAEval7.9%
Vending-Bench 26520.5
GDP.pdf15.0%

Data as of 2026-09-19. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

GPT-5.5 Pro vs Muse Spark 1.1: questions

Is GPT-5.5 Pro better than Muse Spark 1.1?
GPT-5.5 Pro (xhigh) leads on quality: 67.1 vs 65.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-5.5 Pro (xhigh) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-19, but check the category scores for your use.
Which is cheaper, GPT-5.5 Pro or Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper: $2.00 against $67.50 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, GPT-5.5 Pro or Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 streams faster: 210 against 4 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
GPT-5.5 Pro accepts more context: 1.1M against 1.0M tokens.