# Gemini 3 Flash vs Muse Spark

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemini 3 Flash and Muse Spark across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemini-3-flash-vs-muse-spark
- Last updated: October 5, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemini 3 Flash only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Muse Spark leads overall 59.99 to 54.48.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 64.7 for Gemini 3 Flash and 91.9 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Claw-Eval in Agentic, with scores of 49.2% and 63.8%.
- Gemini 3 Flash also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 54.48 | 59.99 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 11 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.50 / $3.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 31.1 (Supported · #79/119)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 49.8 (Supported · #43/119)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Claw-Eval | 49.2% | 63.8% | Muse Spark |
| Gert Labs | 56.63% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 11.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 53.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 74.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 34.1 (Supported · #82/144)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 51.1 (Supported · #39/144)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vibe Code Bench | 20.20% | 19.67% | Gemini 3 Flash |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 75.0% | 74.4% | Gemini 3 Flash |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 52.4% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 60.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 76.9 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 78.5 (#14/49)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 86.4% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.1% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 33.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 53.6 (Supported · #57/171)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 60.3 (Supported · #40/171)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 87.9% | 89.6% | Muse Spark |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 88.6% | 87.3% | Gemini 3 Flash |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 64.7 (#70/125)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 91.9 (#8/125)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Gemini 3 Flash public-lane score: 50 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemini 3 Flash | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 35.640% | 39.000% | Muse Spark |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.167% | 14.600% | Muse Spark |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemini 3 Flash or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemini 3 Flash and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 64.7 for Gemini 3 Flash and 91.9 for Muse Spark.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 3 Flash cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 3 Flash currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Muse Spark cover on BenchLM?

Muse Spark currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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