# Granite 4.2 30B vs Muse Spark

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Granite 4.2 30B and Muse Spark share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Muse Spark has the larger published context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | IBM | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 128K | 262K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 67.69 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 24 |
| 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 public-lane score: 56.1 (Supported · #34/152)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark | 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 | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 59 (Supported · #25/151)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE Multilingual | 41.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 33.3% | 52.4% | Muse Spark |
| SWE-bench Verified | 57% | 77.4% | Muse Spark |
| 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 |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 77.5 (#14/48)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 45.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 65.4 (Supported · #24/183)

| Benchmark | Granite 4.2 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 66.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 93.2 (#8/123)

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

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Granite 4.2 30B public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

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

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

Not yet. The models share only 2 sourced benchmark rows, 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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