# Inkling-Small vs Muse Spark

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

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/inkling-small-vs-muse-spark
- Last updated: September 10, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 9
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Inkling-Small 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 67.69 to 59.25.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 48.8 for Inkling-Small and 77.5 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is HLE w/o tools in Knowledge, with scores of 31.6% and 42.8%.
- Inkling-Small also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Thinking Machines Lab | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Hybrid | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 262K |
| Overall Score | 59.25 | 67.69 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 25 | 24 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.58 / $1.44 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 36.9 (Supported · #128/152)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 56.1 (Supported · #34/152)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 64.7% | 59% | Inkling-Small |
| BrowseComp | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 79.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 55.1% | Coming soon | 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: Muse Spark
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 43.8 (Supported · #97/151)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 59 (Supported · #25/151)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.2% | 77.4% | Inkling-Small |
| SWE-bench Pro | 55.9% | 52.4% | Inkling-Small |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 85.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 48.8 (#39/48)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 77.5 (#14/48)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 74% | 80.4% | Muse Spark |
| CharXiv | 81.3% | 86.4% | Muse Spark |
| CharXiv w/o tools | 77.4% | Coming soon | 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: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 42.7 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 45.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 40.1% | 42.5% | Muse Spark |
| CritPt | 8.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 56.5 (Supported · #46/183)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 65.4 (Supported · #24/183)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | 89.5% | Tie |
| HLE | 47.8% | 50.4% | Muse Spark |
| HLE w/o tools | 31.6% | 42.8% | Muse Spark |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 83.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 89.6 (#25/123)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 93.2 (#8/123)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 82.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Inkling-Small public-lane score: 76.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Inkling-Small | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 95.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 90.2% | 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

### Which is better overall, Inkling-Small or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Inkling-Small and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 48.8 for Inkling-Small and 77.5 for Muse Spark.

### How many benchmarks does Inkling-Small cover on BenchLM?

Inkling-Small currently has 25 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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

Muse Spark currently has 24 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Inkling-Small vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-inkling-small)
- [Muse Spark vs Inkling](/compare/inkling-vs-muse-spark)
- [Inkling-Small vs Muse Spark 1.2](/compare/inkling-small-vs-muse-spark-1-2)
- [Muse Spark vs Muse Spark 1.2](/compare/muse-spark-vs-muse-spark-1-2)

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