BenchLeader

Grok 4 vs Muse Spark 1.2

Verdict
  • Grok 4 and Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) are level on quality (59.8 vs 60.7).
  • Grok 4 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, instruction following, long context, maths.
  • Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) is stronger in human preference, knowledge, multimodal, reasoning, composite.
  • Grok 4 is 1.3× cheaper ($1.56 vs $2.00 per 1M blended).
MetricGrok 4Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh)
BenchLeader Index59.860.7
Agents & tools score53.450.3
Coding score61.256.7
Human preference score59.870.6
Instruction following score67.7
Knowledge score56.065.2
Long context score77.7
Maths score58.0
Multimodal score54.566.4
Reasoning score58.369.3
Composite score60.4
Blended price $/M$1.56$2.00
Output speed184 tok/s
Time to first answer24.9 s
Context window256k1.0M
GPQA Diamond87.0%
OTIS Mock AIME84.0%
SimpleQA Verified60.3%
Terminal-Bench27.2%
SimpleBench60.5%
Fiction.LiveBench 120k96.9%
SciCode56.4%
Cybench43.0%
WeirdML45.7%60.3%
APEX-Agents15.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.4
LMArena Text14111499
LMArena Hard Prompts14201513
LMArena Coding14351535
LMArena WebDev1534
LMArena Vision12101304
LMArena Agent-1.8
LiveBench78.0%
LiveBench Reasoning90.0%
LiveBench Coding77.5%
LiveBench Agentic Coding57.6%
LiveBench Mathematics91.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis76.5%
LiveBench Language78.6%
AIME (Vals)90.6%
LiveCodeBench83.3%
MMLU-Pro85.3%88.3%
IOI21.8%
LegalBench83.2%85.3%
CorpFin66.0%70.9%
TaxEval65.1%80.4%
MedQA92.5%
MGSM90.9%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)69.7%
SWE-bench (Vals)57.8%86.6%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)88.1%
Vals Index57.0
IMO 202521.4%
MathArena Apex2.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark73.6%
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 mean78.5%
Aider Polyglot79.6%
ARC-AGI-179.6%
ARC-AGI-229.4%
BFCL Overall63.0%

Data as of 2026-09-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Grok 4 vs Muse Spark 1.2: questions

Is Grok 4 better than Muse Spark 1.2?
Grok 4 and Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) are level on quality (59.8 vs 60.7). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-13, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Grok 4 better than Muse Spark 1.2 for coding?
Grok 4 scores higher in coding (61 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is Grok 4 better than Muse Spark 1.2 for agentic tasks?
Grok 4 scores higher in agentic tasks (53 vs 50 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Grok 4 or Muse Spark 1.2?
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 1.2 accepts more context: 1.0M against 256k tokens.