Kimi K3 vs Muse Spark

  • Kimi K3 and Muse Spark are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1475 and 1474).
  • On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Kimi K3 wins 5 and Muse Spark wins 1 (Kimi K3: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, GPQA Diamond).
LMArena text rating over time
14601468147514831490Apr 26May 26Jul 26Sep 26Oct 26
LatestKimi K3 1475Muse Spark 1474

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Kimi K3
  • Muse Spark
BenchmarkKimi K3Muse Spark
The model
LabMoonshot AIMeta
Released2026-07-16—
WeightsOpenProprietary
Context window1M—
Input, per 1M tokens$0.24—
Output, per 1M tokens$10.80—
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1475#25 of 3511474#26 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1655#17 of 124—
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image—1306#15 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1508#16 of 3461481#56 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1493#20 of 3391456#65 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1456#28 of 3491459#26 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1495#17 of 3511474#41 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1485#16 of 3511443#58 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score52.95%#20 of 27—
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal17.17%#34 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects93.40%#8 of 8574.40%#45 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works84.97%#16 of 11519.67%#84 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests28.59%#23 of 28—
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination87.19%#18 of 143—
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools60.01%#21 of 31—
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks57.95%#11 of 31—
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions33.37%#15 of 76—
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks71.72%#10 of 28—
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research46.15%#16 of 85—
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes49.36%#23 of 10751.31%#16 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not92.93%#12 of 13889.65%#28 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering87.97%#22 of 13887.32%#30 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad—96.88%#3 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text88.15%#11 of 9387.40%#16 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal1.43%#38 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Kimi K3 or Muse Spark?

Kimi K3 and Muse Spark are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1475 and 1474). On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Kimi K3 wins 5 and Muse Spark wins 1 (Kimi K3: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench, GPQA Diamond).

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