Head-to-head comparison across 5benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Gemini 3.5 Flash
88
Muse Spark
82
Verified leaderboard positions: Gemini 3.5 Flash #7 · Muse Spark unranked
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Muse Spark only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+18.2 difference
Coding
+7.2 difference
Reasoning
+32.2 difference
Knowledge
+7.6 difference
Multimodal
+1.6 difference
Gemini 3.5 Flash
Muse Spark
$1.5 / $9
N/A
284.2 t/s
N/A
18.55s
N/A
1M
262K
Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Muse Spark only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 88 to 82. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 3.5 Flash's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 74.7 against 42.5. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is ARC-AGI-2, 72.1% to 42.5%. Muse Spark does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 3.5 Flash gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Muse Spark.
Gemini 3.5 Flash is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 88 to 82. The biggest single separator in this matchup is ARC-AGI-2, where the scores are 72.1% and 42.5%.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 58 versus 50.4. Inside this category, HLE is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Muse Spark has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 61.7 versus 54.5. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 74.7 versus 42.5. Inside this category, ARC-AGI-2 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 77.2 versus 59. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 3.5 Flash has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 83.8 versus 82.2. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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