Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (High)
71
Muse Spark
82
Verified leaderboard positions: DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) #19 · Muse Spark unranked
Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Agentic
+3.6 difference
Coding
+10.5 difference
Knowledge
+6.8 difference
DeepSeek V4 Flash (High)
Muse Spark
$0.14 / $0.28
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1M
262K
Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority or you need the larger 1M context window.
Muse Spark is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 82 to 71. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Muse Spark's sharpest advantage is in agentic, where it averages 59 against 55.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is HLE, 29.4% to 50.4%. DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Muse Spark.
Muse Spark is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 82 to 71. The biggest single separator in this matchup is HLE, where the scores are 29.4% and 50.4%.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 57.2 versus 50.4. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
DeepSeek V4 Flash (High) has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.2 versus 61.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Muse Spark has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 59 versus 55.4. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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