# Gemma 4 12B vs Muse Spark

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Gemma 4 12B and Muse Spark across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/gemma-4-12b-vs-muse-spark
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Gemma 4 12B 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 68.39 to 46.64.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 26.1 for Gemma 4 12B and 77.5 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE w/o tools in Knowledge, with scores of 5.2% and 42.8%.
- Muse Spark also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Google | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 46.64 | 68.39 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 12 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 47.9 (Estimated · #81/151)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 58.8 (Supported · #31/151)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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 |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 46.6 (Estimated · #97/183)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 59.2 (Supported · #28/183)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 72.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 26.1 (#44/48)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 77.5 (#14/48)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 69.1% | 80.4% | Muse Spark |
| MathVision | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 48.7% | 78.4% | Muse Spark |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 86.4% | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 34 (Unranked · 4 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 45.9 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 53% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MRCRv2 | 43.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 40.4 (Supported · #138/181)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 65.7 (Supported · #23/181)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 78.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 78.8% | 89.5% | Muse Spark |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 5.2% | 42.8% | Muse Spark |
| MMMLU | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 89.8 (#21/120)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 92.9 (#8/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Gemma 4 12B public-lane score: 57.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Gemma 4 12B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 77.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 39.000% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 14.600% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Gemma 4 12B or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Gemma 4 12B and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 26.1 for Gemma 4 12B and 77.5 for Muse Spark.

### How many benchmarks does Gemma 4 12B cover on BenchLM?

Gemma 4 12B currently has 12 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Muse Spark currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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