Qwen3.8-Max vs Muse Spark 1.2

  • Qwen3.8-Max and Muse Spark 1.2 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1484 and 1482).
  • Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8-Max.
  • On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Qwen3.8-Max wins 4 and Muse Spark 1.2 wins 4 (Qwen3.8-Max: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Legal Research Bench, MMLU-Pro).
LMArena text rating over time
14701480149015001510Aug 2Aug 22Sep 11Oct 1Oct 22
LatestQwen3.8-Max 1484Muse Spark 1.2 1482

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Models (2/6)
  • Qwen3.8-Max
  • Muse Spark 1.2
BenchmarkQwen3.8-MaxMuse Spark 1.2
The model
LabAlibabaMeta
Released2026-09-032026-08-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$2$1.25
Output, per 1M tokens$6$4.25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1484#15 of 3511482#17 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1673#12 of 1241533#52 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1313#10 of 1461304#17 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1503#21 of 3461505#18 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1501#15 of 3391483#31 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1477#16 of 3491435#56 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1497#16 of 3511490#20 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1481#18 of 3511463#39 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score59.05%#11 of 27—
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal34.34%#18 of 556.06%#46 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects85.60%#16 of 8586.60%#14 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works64.70%#49 of 11579.10%#27 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests57.19%#10 of 28—
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination87.85%#10 of 143—
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools58.83%#23 of 31—
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks61.66%#5 of 31—
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions32.09%#22 of 7632.80%#17 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks73.90%#5 of 28—
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research46.15%#17 of 8543.75%#22 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes40.67%#62 of 10749.35%#24 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not93.69%#6 of 138—
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering88.60%#18 of 13888.28%#20 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text88.03%#12 of 9386.13%#22 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal12.86%#13 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Qwen3.8-Max or Muse Spark 1.2?

Qwen3.8-Max and Muse Spark 1.2 are level on LMArena’s text leaderboard (1484 and 1482). Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8-Max. On the 8 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Qwen3.8-Max wins 4 and Muse Spark 1.2 wins 4 (Qwen3.8-Max: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Legal Research Bench, MMLU-Pro).

Which is cheaper, Qwen3.8-Max or Muse Spark 1.2?

Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $2 / $6 for Qwen3.8-Max.

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