Muse Spark 1.1 vs Kimi K3

  • Muse Spark 1.1 and Kimi K3 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1478 and 1475).
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $0.24 / $11 for Kimi K3.
  • On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Spark 1.1 wins 1 and Kimi K3 wins 6 (Muse Spark 1.1: MMLU-Pro).
LMArena text rating over time
14601470148014901500Jul 10Aug 5Aug 31Sep 26Oct 22
LatestMuse Spark 1.1 1478Kimi K3 1475

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Muse Spark 1.1
  • Kimi K3
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.1Kimi K3
The model
LabMetaMoonshot AI
Released2026-07-162026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$1.25$0.24
Output, per 1M tokens$4.25$10.80
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1478#22 of 3511475#25 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1543#47 of 1241655#17 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1293#26 of 146—
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1498#28 of 3461508#16 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1481#33 of 3391493#20 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1435#57 of 3491456#28 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1485#27 of 3511495#17 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1456#45 of 3511485#16 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score—52.95%#20 of 27
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal—17.17%#34 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects82.00%#20 of 8593.40%#8 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works72.16%#40 of 11584.97%#16 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests—28.59%#23 of 28
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination85.91%#29 of 14387.19%#18 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools—60.01%#21 of 31
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks—57.95%#11 of 31
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions—33.37%#15 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks—71.72%#10 of 28
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research37.98%#39 of 8546.15%#16 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes—49.36%#23 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not91.16%#23 of 13892.93%#12 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering88.73%#17 of 13887.97%#22 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text86.59%#18 of 9388.15%#11 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal—1.43%#38 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Muse Spark 1.1 or Kimi K3?

Muse Spark 1.1 and Kimi K3 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1478 and 1475). Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $0.24 / $11 for Kimi K3. On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Spark 1.1 wins 1 and Kimi K3 wins 6 (Muse Spark 1.1: MMLU-Pro).

Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.1 or Kimi K3?

Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $0.24 / $11 for Kimi K3.

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