# Muse Spark vs Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Muse Spark and Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/muse-spark-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview
- Last updated: September 29, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 5
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Muse Spark if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) 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 60.57 to 54.95.
- The clearest category separation is in mathematics, where the averages are 55.1 for Muse Spark and 41.3 for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).
- The biggest single benchmark swing is FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) in Mathematics, with scores of 39.000% and 23.103%.
- Muse Spark also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meta | Alibaba |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 262K | 256K |
| Overall Score | 60.57 | 54.95 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 27 | 10 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 50 (Supported · #39/117)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59% | 65.4% | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) |
| 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 |
| QwenClawBench | Coming soon | 59.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53.3 (Supported · #35/143)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: 47.1 (Supported · #47/143)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 77.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.4% | 57.3% | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | 80.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | 19.67% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 74.4% | 72.8% | Muse Spark |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 47% | Coming soon |
| NL2Repo | Coming soon | 42.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 65.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53.4 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 42.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 78.5 (#14/50)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 86.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 60.5 (Supported · #40/169)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 50.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 42.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | 42.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | 52.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 89.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 87.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 73.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 91.9 (#8/124)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: Coming soon

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) public-lane score: 41.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Muse Spark | Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 39.000% | 23.103% | Muse Spark |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 14.600% | 4.167% | Muse Spark |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Muse Spark or Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Muse Spark and Qwen 3.6 Max (preview)?

The widest category gap is in mathematics, where the averages are 55.1 for Muse Spark and 41.3 for Qwen 3.6 Max (preview).

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

Muse Spark currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) cover on BenchLM?

Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

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- [Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) vs Muse Spark 1.1](/compare/muse-spark-1-1-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview)
- [Muse Spark vs Muse Spark 1.2](/compare/muse-spark-vs-muse-spark-1-2)
- [Qwen 3.6 Max (preview) vs Muse Spark 1.2](/compare/muse-spark-1-2-vs-qwen3-6-max-preview)

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