Muse Spark 1.1 vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Verdict
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 59.2.
- Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, instruction following, knowledge, multimodal, reasoning.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is stronger in long context, maths.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is 1.8× cheaper ($1.13 vs $2.00 per 1M blended).
- Muse Spark 1.1 streams 3.4× faster (194 vs 56 tokens per second).
| Metric | Muse Spark 1.1 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 65.0 | 59.2 |
| Agents & tools score | 62.7 | 57.0 |
| Coding score | 68.1 | 52.8 |
| Composite score | 72.3 | 48.3 |
| Human preference score | 66.3 | 63.9 |
| Instruction following score | 77.8 | 73.0 |
| Knowledge score | 73.2 | 59.0 |
| Long context score | 65.4 | 65.7 |
| Maths score | 52.2 | 56.7 |
| Multimodal score | 65.0 | 62.4 |
| Reasoning score | 69.2 | 64.3 |
| Blended price $/M | $2.00 | $1.13 |
| Output speed | 194 tok/s | 56 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 2.6 s | 101.1 s |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1M |
| GPQA Diamond | – | 88.4% |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | – | 38.3% |
| OTIS Mock AIME | – | 93.3% |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch) | – | 57.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 57.8% | 44.1% |
| SciCode | 58.2% | 40.7% |
| APEX-Agents | 41.9% | – |
| ProofBench | 39.0% | – |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 154.6 | 147.7 |
| LMArena Text | 1492 | 1444 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1511 | 1468 |
| LMArena Coding | 1531 | 1495 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1541 | 1460 |
| LMArena Vision | 1293 | – |
| LMArena Agent | -2.6 | – |
| LiveBench | – | 68.9% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | – | 75.8% |
| LiveBench Coding | – | 78.2% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | – | 41.4% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | – | 83.7% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | – | 69.9% |
| LiveBench Language | – | 75.0% |
| AA Intelligence Index | 34.3 | 27.0 |
| IFBench | – | 75.2% |
| AA-LCR | 77.7% | 78.3% |
| MMMU-Pro | – | 78.0% |
| AA-Omniscience | 28.1 | 0.9 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | – | 43.9% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 89.8% | 88.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 46.2% | 27.9% |
| SciCode (AA) | 58.8% | – |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | – | 97.7% |
| AIME (Vals) | – | 94.6% |
| LiveCodeBench | – | 86.0% |
| MMLU-Pro | – | 87.7% |
| LegalBench | – | 84.2% |
| CorpFin | – | 61.9% |
| TaxEval | – | 74.7% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | – | 53.2% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | – | 73.4% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | – | 87.4% |
| Vals Index | – | 32.0 |
| 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 | – |
Data as of 2026-09-10. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Muse Spark 1.1 vs Qwen3.6 Plus: questions
- Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Muse Spark 1.1 leads on quality: 65.0 vs 59.2. 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 Muse Spark 1.1 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for coding?
- Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in coding (68 vs 53 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Is Muse Spark 1.1 better than Qwen3.6 Plus for agentic tasks?
- Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in agentic tasks (63 vs 57 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Qwen3.6 Plus is cheaper: $1.13 against $2.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, Muse Spark 1.1 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Muse Spark 1.1 streams faster: 194 against 56 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Muse Spark 1.1 accepts more context: 1.0M against 1M tokens.