Comparing 2 models
Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Muse Spark 1.2
Benchmarks through
Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash places higher on 8 of the 9 tasks where both are ranked. Gemini 3.8 Flash costs 1.5x less per input token.
- Choose Gemini 3.8 Flash for Charts & Diagrams (#1), OCR & Documents (#1), Marketing Copy (#1).
- Choose Muse Spark 1.2 for Image Understanding (#3).
Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.
Measured head to head
Benchmarks both models were run on
| Evaluation | Gemini 3.8 Flash | Muse Spark 1.2 | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena Coding | 1304 Elo | 1313 Elo | source · 2026-10-20 |
| Design Arena Full-stack Agent | 1244 Elo | 1210 Elo | source · 2026-10-14 |
| Design Arena UI | 1318 Elo | 1301 Elo | source · 2026-10-20 |
| Design Arena Web-app Agent | 1237 Elo | 1222 Elo | source · 2026-10-20 |
| Design Arena Website | 1301 Elo | 1313 Elo | source · 2026-10-20 |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | 54.2% | 57.6% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | 77.5% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.0% | 76.5% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.4% | 74.3% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LiveBench Language | 87.8% | 78.6% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LiveBench Math | 91.6% | 91.2% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.3% | 90% | source · 2026-10-18 |
| LMArena Agent | 3.7 | -6.7 | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena Agent Bash Recovery | -0.7 | 5.8 | source · 2026-10-08 |
| LMArena Agent Steerability | 1.4 | -8.5 | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena Agent Task Outcome | 4 | -8.5 | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination | 0.6 | 0.3 | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1492 Elo | 1440 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1491 Elo | 1462 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Long Query | 1507 Elo | 1476 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Math | 1527 Elo | 1476 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Text | 1496 Elo | 1493 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Text Factuality | 1474 Elo | 1481 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Vision | 1291 Elo | 1293 Elo | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena Vision Diagrams | 1333 Elo | 1316 Elo | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena Vision OCR | 1316 Elo | 1307 Elo | source · 2026-10-19 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1585 Elo | 1534 Elo | source · 2026-10-19 |
| SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) | 69.7% ± 1.5 | 60.3% ± 1.6 | source · 2026-09-02 |
Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.
task evidence
How they place when the question changes
Lower ranks are better. “Best” marks the strongest option in this shortlist for that task.