Muse Spark 1.3 vs Qwen3.6 Plus
Verdict
- Muse Spark 1.3 leads on quality: 68.3 vs 59.2.
- Muse Spark 1.3 is stronger in composite, knowledge, long context.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is stronger in agents & tools, coding, human preference, instruction following, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
- Qwen3.6 Plus is 1.8× cheaper ($1.13 vs $2.00 per 1M blended).
- Muse Spark 1.3 streams 4.3× faster (241 vs 56 tokens per second).
| Metric | Muse Spark 1.3 | Qwen3.6 Plus |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 68.3 | 59.2 |
| Composite score | 90.3 | 48.5 |
| Knowledge score | 79.1 | 59.0 |
| Long context score | 68.2 | 65.8 |
| Agents & tools score | – | 57.2 |
| Coding score | – | 52.7 |
| Human preference score | – | 63.7 |
| Instruction following score | – | 73.5 |
| Maths score | – | 56.7 |
| Multimodal score | – | 62.7 |
| Reasoning score | – | 64.2 |
| Blended price $/M | $2.00 | $1.13 |
| Output speed | 241 tok/s | 56 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 30.5 s | 100.5 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 | – | 44.1% |
| SciCode | – | 40.7% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | – | 147.7 |
| LMArena Text | – | 1443 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | – | 1467 |
| LMArena Coding | – | 1495 |
| LMArena WebDev | – | 1461 |
| 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 | 48.2 | 27.0 |
| IFBench | – | 75.2% |
| AA-LCR | 83.0% | 78.3% |
| MMMU-Pro | – | 78.0% |
| AA-Omniscience | 25 | 0.9 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | – | 43.9% |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 93.5% | 88.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 48.7% | 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 |
| PRBench Finance | 59.5% | – |
| PRBench Legal | 61.6% | – |
Data as of 2026-09-14. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
Muse Spark 1.3 vs Qwen3.6 Plus: questions
- Is Muse Spark 1.3 better than Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Muse Spark 1.3 leads on quality: 68.3 vs 59.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.3 is ahead overall as of 2026-09-14, but check the category scores for your use.
- Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.3 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 1.3 or Qwen3.6 Plus?
- Muse Spark 1.3 streams faster: 241 against 56 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- Muse Spark 1.3 accepts more context: 1.0M against 1M tokens.