# Muse Spark vs Pareto 26.9

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Muse Spark and Pareto 26.9 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/muse-spark-vs-pareto-26-9
- Last updated: September 18, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Muse Spark and Pareto 26.9 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 | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meta | Unbiased |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | N/A |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 67.51 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 24 | 4 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $2.50 / $7.50 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 58.2 (Supported · #32/154)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | 91.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 74.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | 43.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 63.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | Coming soon | 51.00% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 58.8 (Supported · #26/154)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 19.67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | Coming soon | 74.0% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 77.5 (#13/48)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 80.4% | 78% | Muse Spark |
| ERQA | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | 71.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 84.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | 33.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 45.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 42.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 65.3 (Supported · #24/184)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 42.8% | 49% | Pareto 26.9 |
| HealthBench Hard | 42.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 91.9 (#8/124)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Pareto 26.9 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Pareto 26.9 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 39.000% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 14.600% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Muse Spark and Pareto 26.9?

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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