Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Muse Spark
80
Ornith-1.0-9B
52
Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Agentic
+15.9 difference
Coding
+7.7 difference
Muse Spark
Ornith-1.0-9B
N/A
$0 / $0
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
262K
262K
Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Ornith-1.0-9B only becomes the better choice if coding is the priority.
Muse Spark is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 80 to 52. 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 43.1. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is Terminal-Bench 2.0, 59% to 43.1%. Ornith-1.0-9B does hit back in coding, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Muse Spark is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 80 to 52. The biggest single separator in this matchup is Terminal-Bench 2.0, where the scores are 59% and 43.1%.
Ornith-1.0-9B has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 69.4 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 43.1. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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