Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 Max lands #8 on Code Arena: WebDev, reshaping the price-performance frontier
arena · x · 2026-09-09
LMArena reports Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 Max (Max reasoning) scored 1650 on Code Arena: WebDev, ranking #8 ahead of Claude Fable 5, Grok-4.6 High and GPT-5.6 Sol. At $3.50/M tokens it sits 20 pts below Qwen3.8 Max (1670, $5/M) while costing 30% less, and 24 pts below Kimi K3 Max (1674, $12/M) at 70% less — the only model occupying the wide price band between Qwen3.8-max and Qwen3.8-Flash-Next ($0.39/M). A big jump from Muse Spark 1.1 (#25) and 1.2 (#30). Scores are early AutoEval based on a reward model trained on Arena preference data and may shift as live votes arrive.
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