Muse Spark 1.2 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

  • Muse Spark 1.2 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1482 and 1480).
  • Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
  • On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Spark 1.2 wins 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 3 (Muse Spark 1.2: Terminal-Bench 4.0, SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
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LatestMuse Spark 1.2 1482Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 1480

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Models (2/6)
  • Muse Spark 1.2
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
The model
LabMetaGoogle
Released2026-08-052026-02-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$1.25$2
Output, per 1M tokens$4.25$12
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1482#17 of 3511480#19 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1533#52 of 1241447#78 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1304#17 of 1461296#22 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1505#18 of 3461484#48 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1483#31 of 3391486#28 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1435#56 of 3491482#14 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1490#20 of 3511485#30 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1463#39 of 3511466#35 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal6.06%#46 of 552.52%#49 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects86.60%#14 of 8578.80%#28 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works79.10%#27 of 11532.03%#72 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—88.48%#6 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions32.80%#17 of 769.29%#62 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research43.75%#22 of 8520.67%#62 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes49.35%#24 of 10759.06%#2 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias—96.37%#3 of 92
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—95.45%#1 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering88.28%#20 of 13890.99%#4 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad—98.13%#1 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text86.13%#22 of 9388.21%#10 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal—1.43%#35 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Muse Spark 1.2 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Muse Spark 1.2 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1482 and 1480). Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview. On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Spark 1.2 wins 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 3 (Muse Spark 1.2: Terminal-Bench 4.0, SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench).

Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.2 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $12 for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

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