Agentic
Like-for-like- MiniMax M2.7
- 57.0
- Muse Spark
- 59.0
- Weighted basis
- 1 vs 1 rows
- Reading
- Muse Spark leads
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Start free briefUpdated August 21, 2026. Public scores include evidence status and uncertainty. They are not guarantees for a specific workload.
Decision reading
Muse Spark has the higher public score estimate, 70.6 versus 62.85, but the 90% score intervals overlap. Treat that as a lead, not a settled winner.
5 results are shared. Category rows based on different benchmark sets are marked directional and do not name a winner.
Recommendations appear only when a shared evidence basis or an explicit operating constraint supports the call. Secondary and unsupported use cases stay disclosed below the initial list.
Tool use, computer use, and multi-step task completion
Muse Spark
Muse Spark leads on the same 1 weighted benchmark row.
Confidence: limited
Prompts that approach the documented context limit
Muse Spark
Muse Spark has the larger documented context window.
Confidence: documented
Code generation, repair, and software-engineering tasks
Not enough matched evidence
The category averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so they are directional rather than like-for-like.
Confidence: limited
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
The page does not recommend a cost winner because at least one model cannot fit the stated workload in one request. MiniMax M2.7 does not fit this workload in one request. MiniMax M2.7 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate. Muse Spark has no comparable published API token rate.
Confidence: rate-fallback
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Not enough matched evidence
A complete comparable API-rate estimate is not available for both models.
Confidence: listed-rates
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results present for only one model describe coverage, not superiority.
1 category uses different evidence sets. Those rows remain visible for coverage context but do not name a winner.
Each row states whether both averages use the same weighted benchmark set. Directional and not-comparable rows remain visible, but they never receive a winner in this template.
| Category | MiniMax M2.7 | Muse Spark | Weighted basis | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agentic | 57.0 | 59.0 | Like-for-like1 vs 1 rows | Muse Spark leads |
| Coding | 53.3 | 67.8 | Directional only2 vs 2 rows | Directional only |
| Reasoning | Not measured | 42.5 | Not comparable0 vs 1 rows | Not comparable |
| Knowledge | Not measured | 50.4 | Not comparable0 vs 1 rows | Not comparable |
| Math | Not measured | 32.9 | Not comparable0 vs 2 rows | Not comparable |
| Multilingual | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
| Multimodal | Not measured | 82.5 | Not comparable0 vs 2 rows | Not comparable |
| Instruction following | Not measured | Not measured | Not comparable0 vs 0 rows | Not comparable |
Only shared public evidence is shown. Sparse evidence stays a ruled list rather than being closed into a radar shape.
Too few matched category axes support a radar. The ruled list below shows only shared benchmark results; positions use each benchmark’s normalized display scale when available.
SWE-bench Pro
Coding
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Agentic
Three fixed token mixes turn per-token rates into comparable decisions. Each scenario states context fit and whether cached input had to fall back to the published list-input rate.
1K fresh input + 500 output tokens
Muse Spark has no comparable published API token rate.
50K fresh input + 3K output tokens
Muse Spark has no comparable published API token rate.
200K cached + 20K fresh input + 10K output tokens
MiniMax M2.7 does not fit this workload in one request. MiniMax M2.7 has no published cached-input rate, so cached tokens use its listed input rate. Muse Spark has no comparable published API token rate.
Sourced differences are shown directly. Missing facts stay explicit instead of being inferred from a model name or family.
Maximum documented context; output-token limits may be lower.
MiniMax M2.7
200K
Muse Spark
262K
MiniMax M2.7
Not sourced
Muse Spark
Not sourced
A missing cached-input rate falls back to the listed input rate only in the stated workload estimate.
MiniMax M2.7
Not published
Muse Spark
No comparable hosted API rate
MiniMax M2.7
Not sourced
Muse Spark
Not sourced
MiniMax M2.7
Not sourced
Muse Spark
Not sourced
MiniMax M2.7
Not sourced
Muse Spark
Not sourced
MiniMax M2.7
Non-Reasoning
Muse Spark
Reasoning
MiniMax M2.7
Open Weight
Muse Spark
Proprietary
MiniMax M2.7
Open Weight
Muse Spark
Proprietary
MiniMax M2.7
2026-03-18
Muse Spark
2026-04-08
Run the same representative tasks against both endpoints before changing production traffic.
The full public result ledger is available for audit without forcing a wide desktop table onto a phone.
Terminal-Bench 2.0
Muse Spark leads this result
Toolathlon
Not directly comparable
MLE-Bench Lite
Not directly comparable
MM-ClawBench
Not directly comparable
Claw-Eval
Shared sourceMuse Spark leads this result
Gert Labs
Not directly comparable
τ²-bench results
Not directly comparable
DeepSearchQA
Not directly comparable
CyberGym
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified*
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Pro
MiniMax M2.7 leads this result
SWE-Rebench
Not directly comparable
SWE Multilingual
Not directly comparable
Multi-SWE Bench
Not directly comparable
VIBE-Pro
Not directly comparable
NL2Repo
Not directly comparable
Vibe Code Bench
Shared sourceMiniMax M2.7 leads this result
React Native Evals
Not directly comparable
SWE-bench Verified
Not directly comparable
LiveCodeBench Pro
Not directly comparable
ARC-AGI-2
Not directly comparable
GPQA-D
Muse Spark leads this result
MMLU-Pro (Arcee)
Not directly comparable
HLE
Not directly comparable
HLE w/o tools
Not directly comparable
HealthBench Hard
Not directly comparable
MedXpertQA (Text)
Not directly comparable
CharXiv
Not directly comparable
MMMU-Pro
Not directly comparable
ERQA
Not directly comparable
SimpleVQA
Not directly comparable
ScreenSpot Pro
Not directly comparable
ZeroBench
Not directly comparable
MedXpertQA (MM)
Not directly comparable
Muse Spark has the higher public score estimate, 70.6 versus 62.85, but the 90% score intervals overlap. The higher estimate is not a decisive winner because the uncertainty ranges overlap.
The current coding averages use different weighted benchmark sets, so BenchLM does not name a winner from them. Read the shared benchmark rows directly and test the models on the same task set.
Muse Spark leads the like-for-like agentic tasks comparison across 1 shared weighted benchmark row.
Both models do not have comparable published API token rates, so this page does not name a universal price winner.
Muse Spark has the larger documented context window: 262K, compared with 200K.
Last updated August 21, 2026
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