# Granite 4.2 30B vs Muse Spark 1.1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Granite 4.2 30B and Muse Spark 1.1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/granite-4-2-30b-vs-muse-spark-1-1
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Granite 4.2 30B and Muse Spark 1.1 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Muse Spark 1.1 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 70.41 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 26 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: 59.4 (Supported · #23/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 62.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BFCL v4 | 61.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 88.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | Coming soon | 75.6% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 80.8% | Coming soon |
| WebArena-Verified | Coming soon | 69% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 84.9% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |
| Finance Agent v2 | Coming soon | 57.2% | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | Coming soon | 53.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 14.2% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 54.7% | Coming soon |
| Cybench | Coming soon | 92.9% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 0.8% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 69.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: 59.7 (Supported · #23/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | 61.5% | Muse Spark 1.1 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 29.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 38.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.9% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: 77.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 88.4% | Coming soon |
| BabyVision | Coming soon | 76.3% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: 74.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCR 1M | Coming soon | 54.1% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: 70.7 (Supported · #11/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 62.1% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 52.2% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | Coming soon | 59.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 91.2% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark 1.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark 1.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Granite 4.2 30B and Muse Spark 1.1?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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