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DeepSeek V4 FlashvsMuse Spark 1.3

Muse Spark 1.3 leads 15 of 16 shared benchmarks. Muse Spark 1.3 has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
1 – 15
Muse Spark 1.3 leads
Cheaper per token
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list price, input + output
Larger context
Muse Spark 1.3
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
DeepSeek · Meta
DeepSeek V4 Flash
DeepSeek · released 2026-07-31
text
Context
1M
Max out
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Input /1M
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Output /1M
—
Cached /1M
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Scores
28 · 7 core
Muse Spark 1.3
Meta · released 2026-09-02
textvisionvideo
Context
1.0M
Max out
—
Input /1M
$1.25 ↗
Output /1M
$4.25 ↗
Cached /1M
$0.15
Scores
29 · 7 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkDeepSeek V4 FlashMuse Spark 1.3ΔEdge
Reported by both · 16
LMArena Elo1436 ↗1494.3 ↗-58.3Muse Spark 1.3
Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run)33% ↗epoch run38% ↗epoch run-5 ptMuse Spark 1.3
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)24.4% ↗epoch run46.3% ↗epoch run-21.9 ptMuse Spark 1.3
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)57.5% ↗epoch run74.4% ↗epoch run-16.9 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench)46.8% ↗64.1% ↗-17.3 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Coding (LiveBench)75% ↗81.1% ↗-6.1 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench)79.3% ↗79.6% ↗-0.3 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench)65.5% ↗78% ↗-12.5 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Language (LiveBench)79.2% ↗82.8% ↗-3.6 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench)86.8% ↗95.9% ↗-9.1 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench)86.6% ↗89.7% ↗-3.1 ptMuse Spark 1.3
LMArena WebDev (LMArena)1581 ↗1656.6 ↗-75.6Muse Spark 1.3
Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run)34% ↗epoch run25% ↗epoch run+9 ptDeepSeek V4 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)94.4% ↗epoch run99.2% ↗epoch run-4.8 ptMuse Spark 1.3
SimpleBench (SimpleBench)61.1% ↗81.8% ↗-20.7 ptMuse Spark 1.3
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI)18.7% ↗24.7% ↗-6 ptMuse Spark 1.3
Only DeepSeek V4 Flash reports · 12
GPQA Diamond91% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Agents' Last Exam25.2% ↗not reported——
AutomationBench Public25.1% ↗not reported——
Cybergym76.7% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE54.4% ↗not reported——
DeepSWE v1.1 (Datacurve)53.3% ↗not reported——
NL2Repo54.2% ↗not reported——
SimpleQA Verified33.6% ↗epoch runnot reported——
Terminal Bench 2.182.7% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified70.3% ↗not reported——
Toolathlon-Verified (HKUST)70.7% ↗not reported——
WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle)63% ↗not reported——
Only Muse Spark 1.3 reports · 13
APEX-Agents (Mercor)not reported57.8% ↗——
AutomationBenchnot reported49.6% ↗——
DeepSearchQAnot reported90.3% ↗——
DeepSWE v1.1not reported75.4% ↗——
GDPval-AA v2not reported1754 ↗——
JobBenchnot reported64.9% ↗——
LMArena Agent (LMArena)not reported0.04 ↗——
LMArena Vision (LMArena)not reported1290.2 ↗——
MRCR 256K-512Knot reported98.5% ↗——
MRCR 512K-1Mnot reported98.1% ↗——
OSWorld 2.0 (partial)not reported66.9% ↗——
SWE-Atlas Codebase QnAnot reported59.4% ↗——
Terminal-Bench 2.1not reported88.8% ↗——
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is DeepSeek V4 Flash minus Muse Spark 1.3 in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing

Side by side

SpecDeepSeek V4 FlashMuse Spark 1.3Edge
Context window1M tokens1.0M tokensMuse Spark 1.3
Max output———
Input price / 1M—$1.25 ↗—
Output price / 1M—$4.25 ↗—
Cached input / 1M—$0.15 ↗—
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
—$5.5—
Modalitiestexttext · vision · videoMuse Spark 1.3
Released2026-07-312026-09-02—
Cited benchmark scores2829—
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