Grok 4 vs Muse Spark 1.1
Verdict
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 64.9 vs 58.6.
- Grok 4 is stronger in long context, maths.
- Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, instruction following, knowledge, multimodal, reasoning.
- Grok 4 is 1.3× cheaper ($1.56 vs $2.00 per 1M blended).
| Metric | Grok 4 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 58.6 | 64.9 |
| Agents & tools score | 55.3 | 62.3 |
| Coding score | 61.2 | 68.0 |
| Composite score | 57.4 | 72.4 |
| Human preference score | 59.8 | 66.4 |
| Instruction following score | 62.4 | 77.8 |
| Knowledge score | 58.3 | 73.2 |
| Long context score | 69.0 | 65.3 |
| Maths score | 58.0 | 52.2 |
| Multimodal score | 53.8 | 65.0 |
| Reasoning score | 58.3 | 69.3 |
| Blended price $/M | $1.56 | $2.00 |
| Output speed | – | 191 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | – | 2.6 s |
| Context window | 256k | 1.0M |
| GPQA Diamond | 87.0% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 84.0% | – |
| SimpleQA Verified | – | 57.8% |
| Terminal-Bench | 27.2% | – |
| SimpleBench | 60.5% | – |
| Fiction.LiveBench 120k | 96.9% | – |
| SciCode | – | 58.2% |
| Cybench | 43.0% | – |
| WeirdML | 45.7% | – |
| APEX-Agents | 15.2% | 41.9% |
| ProofBench | – | 39.0% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 146.4 | 154.6 |
| LMArena Text | 1411 | 1494 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1420 | 1513 |
| LMArena Coding | 1435 | 1533 |
| LMArena WebDev | – | 1542 |
| LMArena Vision | 1210 | 1293 |
| LMArena Agent | – | -3 |
| AA Intelligence Index | 22.5 | 34.3 |
| IFBench | 53.7% | – |
| AA-LCR | 68.0% | 77.7% |
| MMMU-Pro | 68.8% | – |
| AA-Omniscience | 2.1 | 28.1 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 37.9% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 87.7% | 89.8% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 26.7% | 46.2% |
| SciCode (AA) | – | 58.8% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 74.8% | – |
| AIME (Vals) | 90.6% | – |
| LiveCodeBench | 83.3% | – |
| MMLU-Pro | 85.3% | – |
| LegalBench | 83.2% | – |
| CorpFin | 66.0% | – |
| TaxEval | 65.1% | – |
| MedQA | 92.5% | – |
| MGSM | 90.9% | – |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 57.8% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 88.1% | – |
| IMO 2025 | 21.4% | – |
| MathArena Apex | 2.1% | – |
| SWE-Bench Pro | – | 61.5% |
| MCP Atlas | – | 88.1% |
| MultiChallenge | – | 75.3% |
| PRBench Finance | – | 55.0% |
| PRBench Legal | – | 57.0% |
| MultiNRC | – | 65.6% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | – | 1260 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73.6% | – |
| IFEval (HELM) | 94.9% | – |
| Omni-MATH (HELM) | 60.3% | – |
| WildBench (HELM) | 79.7% | – |
| MMLU-Pro (HELM) | 85.1% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (HELM) | 72.6% | – |
| HELM Capabilities mean | 78.5% | – |
| Aider Polyglot | 79.6% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 79.6% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 29.4% | – |
| BFCL Overall | 63.0% | – |
Data as of 2026-09-12. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Grok 4 vs Muse Spark 1.1: questions
- Is Grok 4 better than Muse Spark 1.1?
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 64.9 vs 58.6. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.1 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-12, but check the category scores for your use.
- Is Grok 4 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 Grok 4 better than Muse Spark 1.1 for agentic tasks?
- Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in agentic tasks (62 vs 55 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Grok 4 or Muse Spark 1.1?
- Grok 4 is cheaper: $1.56 against $2.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.0M against 256k tokens.