Comparing 2 models
Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Muse Spark 1.3
Benchmarks through
Verdict
Gemini 3.8 Flash places higher on 14 of the 15 tasks where both are ranked. Gemini 3.8 Flash costs 1.5x less per input token.
- Choose Gemini 3.8 Flash for Creative Writing (#1), Translation (#1), Fast Summaries (#1).
- Choose Muse Spark 1.3 for Image Understanding (#6).
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 1.3 | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena Coding | 1306 Elo | 1353 Elo | source · 2026-10-16 |
| Design Arena Full-stack Agent | 1244 Elo | 1295 Elo | source · 2026-10-14 |
| Design Arena UI | 1319 Elo | 1344 Elo | source · 2026-10-16 |
| Design Arena Web-app Agent | 1231 Elo | 1289 Elo | source · 2026-10-14 |
| Design Arena Website | 1303 Elo | 1348 Elo | source · 2026-10-16 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI) | 68.4% ± 2.8 | 74.4% ± 2.6 | source · 2026-09-02 |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | 54.2% | 64.1% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LiveBench Coding | 72.5% | 81.1% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 54.0% | 79.6% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.4% | 78% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LiveBench Language | 87.8% | 82.8% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LiveBench Math | 91.6% | 96.0% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 89.3% | 89.7% | source · 2026-10-16 |
| LMArena Agent | 4 | 3.6 | source · 2026-10-14 |
| LMArena Agent Bash Recovery | -0.7 | 6.1 | source · 2026-10-08 |
| LMArena Agent Steerability | 2.1 | 5.6 | source · 2026-10-14 |
| LMArena Agent Task Outcome | 5.1 | 4.9 | source · 2026-10-14 |
| LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination | 0.5 | 0.6 | source · 2026-10-14 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1492 Elo | 1460 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1491 Elo | 1478 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Long Query | 1507 Elo | 1488 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Math | 1527 Elo | 1496 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Text | 1496 Elo | 1494 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Text Factuality | 1474 Elo | 1479 Elo | source · 2026-10-15 |
| LMArena Vision | 1289 Elo | 1290 Elo | source · 2026-10-09 |
| LMArena Vision Diagrams | 1333 Elo | 1321 Elo | source · 2026-10-09 |
| LMArena Vision OCR | 1317 Elo | 1306 Elo | source · 2026-10-09 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1585 Elo | 1659 Elo | source · 2026-10-13 |
| LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web | 1593 Elo | 1642 Elo | source · 2026-10-09 |
| OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI) | 98.9% ± 0.9 | 99.2% ± 0.6 | source · 2026-09-02 |
| Terminal-Bench (4.0) | 19.1% | 14.6% | source · 2026-10-16 |
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.