Muse Spark 1.3 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

  • Muse Spark 1.3 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1480.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.3.
  • On the 4 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Spark 1.3 wins 3 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 1 (Muse Spark 1.3: Vibe Code Bench, Tax Agent Bench, Legal Research Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
14601468147514831490Jul 21Aug 13Sep 5Sep 28Oct 22
LatestGemini 3.6 Flash 1480

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Muse Spark 1.3
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash
BenchmarkMuse Spark 1.3Gemini 3.6 Flash
The model
LabMetaGoogle
Released2026-09-022026-07-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$1.25$0.75
Output, per 1M tokens$4.25$3.75
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1491#10 of 3511480#20 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1657#16 of 1241538#49 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1308#12 of 1461299#20 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1511#13 of 3461491#34 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1502#13 of 3391507#11 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1462#23 of 3491466#21 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1504#13 of 3511486#25 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1479#21 of 3511467#31 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal10.61%#41 of 55—
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—79.60%#25 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works82.86%#21 of 11564.00%#50 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—88.08%#8 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions35.97%#13 of 7618.04%#53 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research40.87%#29 of 8525.00%#60 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes—53.15%#11 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—93.43%#7 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—89.28%#13 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—88.38%#7 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal4.29%#25 of 424.29%#28 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Muse Spark 1.3 or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Muse Spark 1.3 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1491 against 1480. Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.3. On the 4 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Spark 1.3 wins 3 and Gemini 3.6 Flash wins 1 (Muse Spark 1.3: Vibe Code Bench, Tax Agent Bench, Legal Research Bench).

Which is cheaper, Muse Spark 1.3 or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $1.25 / $4.25 for Muse Spark 1.3.

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