BenchLeader

Muse Spark 1.3 vs Qwen3.8 27B

Verdict
  • Muse Spark 1.3 (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 59.2.
  • Muse Spark 1.3 (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal, reasoning.
  • Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh) is 2.1× cheaper ($0.938 vs $2.00 per 1M blended).
  • Muse Spark 1.3 (max) streams 5.3× faster (223 vs 42 tokens per second).
MetricMuse Spark 1.3 (max)Qwen3.8 27B (xhigh)
BenchLeader Index69.359.2
Agents & tools score71.167.3
Coding score66.653.2
Composite score90.172.0
Human preference score69.8
Knowledge score76.156.4
Long context score68.067.5
Maths score69.2
Multimodal score67.460.7
Reasoning score83.152.5
Blended price $/M$2.00$0.938
Output speed223 tok/s42 tok/s
Time to first answer34.8 s51.0 s
Context window1.0M262k
SciCode44.7%
LMArena Text1493
LMArena Hard Prompts1516
LMArena Coding1537
LMArena WebDev1652
LMArena Vision1315
LMArena Agent4.2
AA Intelligence Index48.233.9
AA-LCR83.0%82.0%
MMMU-Pro76.3%
AA-Omniscience25-10.0
GPQA Diamond (AA)93.5%90.5%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)48.7%33.9%
SciCode (AA)58.8%46.6%
LiveCodeBench84.0%
MMLU-Pro84.3%
IOI56.6%39.1%
LegalBench82.4%
TaxEval70.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)79.0%58.4%
SWE-bench (Vals)86.0%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)88.9%
Vals Index64.548.5
CritPt24.9%5.4%
GDPval (AA)60.2%48.2%
τ²-Bench Banking (AA)50.5%48.0%
Code Migration47.4%14.2%
Excel Modeling Benchmark67.4%59.7%
Finance Agent v260.0%48.5%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark23.8%11.3%
Legal Research Bench55.3%36.1%
MedCode28.7%
MedScribe83.8%
MMMU-Pro (Vals)83.9%
MortgageTax64.9%
MysteryMechanism36.0%
ProgramBench0.0%
SAGE52.4%
SkillsBench38.1%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)27.8%4.0%
Terminal-Bench Science14.3%1.4%
Vibe Code Bench 1-10020.5%
Vibe Code Bench v1.185.9%64.8%
LMArena Maths1496
LMArena Creative Writing1453
LMArena Instruction Following1483
LMArena Multi-turn1493
LMArena Longer Queries1506
LMArena Document1468
Surface Evolver Bench45.0%

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

Muse Spark 1.3 vs Qwen3.8 27B: questions

Is Muse Spark 1.3 better than Qwen3.8 27B?
Muse Spark 1.3 (max) leads on quality: 69.3 vs 59.2. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Muse Spark 1.3 (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-09-19, but check the category scores for your use.
Is Muse Spark 1.3 better than Qwen3.8 27B for coding?
Muse Spark 1.3 scores higher in coding (67 vs 53 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Is Muse Spark 1.3 better than Qwen3.8 27B for agentic tasks?
Muse Spark 1.3 scores higher in agentic tasks (71 vs 67 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.3 or Qwen3.8 27B?
Qwen3.8 27B is cheaper: $0.938 against $2.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Muse Spark 1.3 or Qwen3.8 27B?
Muse Spark 1.3 streams faster: 223 against 42 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Muse Spark 1.3 accepts more context: 1.0M against 262k tokens.