Kimi K3vsMuse Spark 1.1
Kimi K3 leads the overall Podium Score by 13.4 points (83.3 vs 69.9).Category wins: Kimi K3 1 — 2 Muse Spark 1.1.Muse Spark 1.1 is the cheaper pick ($4.25/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Muse Spark 1.1 is faster (208 t/s vs 37 t/s).
Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Kimi K3 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 83.3 (vs 69.9 for Muse Spark 1.1). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Muse Spark 1.1 outperforms in 2 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
Muse Spark 1.1 (64.4)
Inference Speed
Muse Spark 1.1 (208 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Muse Spark 1.1 ($4.25/M/M)
| Metric | Kimi K3 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 83.3 ▲ | 69.9 |
| Arena Elo | 1485 | 1490 ▲ |
| Intelligence Index | 57.0 ▲ | 51.0 |
| Coding | 61.5 | 64.4 ▲ |
| Math | 70.9 | — |
| Reasoning | 86.5 ▲ | 62.7 |
| Agentic | 100.0 | — |
| Knowledge | 19.7 | 28.1 ▲ |
| Multimodal | 83.5 | — |
| Long-context | 99.2 | 99.2 |
| Output speed | 37 t/s | 208 t/s ▲ |
| Output price | $15/M | $4.25/M ▲ |
| Context window | 1000K | 1000K |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Kimi K3 vs Claude Mythos · Kimi K3 vs Claude Fable 5 · Kimi K3 vs Claude Opus 5 · Kimi K3 vs GPT-5.6 Sol