Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Muse Spark 1.1

  • Gemini 3.6 Flash and Muse Spark 1.1 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1478).
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.1.
  • On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 4 and Muse Spark 1.1 wins 3 (Gemini 3.6 Flash: LiveCodeBench, GPQA Diamond, MMLU-Pro).
LMArena text rating over time
14601470148014901500Jul 10Aug 5Aug 31Sep 26Oct 22
LatestGemini 3.6 Flash 1480Muse Spark 1.1 1478

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
  • Muse Spark 1.1
BenchmarkGemini 3.6 FlashMuse Spark 1.1
The model
LabGoogleMeta
Released2026-07-212026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$0.75$1.25
Output, per 1M tokens$3.75$4.25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1480#20 of 3511478#22 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1538#49 of 1241543#47 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1299#20 of 1461293#26 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1491#34 of 3461498#28 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1507#11 of 3391481#33 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1466#21 of 3491435#57 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1486#25 of 3511485#27 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1467#31 of 3511456#45 of 351
Vals AI, coding
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects79.60%#25 of 8582.00%#20 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works64.00%#50 of 11572.16%#40 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination88.08%#8 of 14385.91%#29 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions18.04%#53 of 76—
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research25.00%#60 of 8537.98%#39 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes53.15%#11 of 107—
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.43%#7 of 13891.16%#23 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering89.28%#13 of 13888.73%#17 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text88.38%#7 of 9386.59%#18 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal4.29%#28 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Muse Spark 1.1?

Gemini 3.6 Flash and Muse Spark 1.1 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1480 and 1478). Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.1. On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 4 and Muse Spark 1.1 wins 3 (Gemini 3.6 Flash: LiveCodeBench, GPQA Diamond, MMLU-Pro).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.6 Flash or Muse Spark 1.1?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.1.

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