Gemini 4 Argon vs Muse Spark 1.3

At a glance

• Capability index

  • Gemini 4 Argon164.6
  • Muse Spark 1.3156.8

  Gemini 4 Argon is 7.8 points higher.

• Price per 1M tokens

  • Gemini 4 Argon$4.00
  • Muse Spark 1.3$2.00

  Muse Spark 1.3 is 2 times cheaper.

• Context window

  • Gemini 4 Argon1M tokens
  • Muse Spark 1.31M tokens

  They take in about the same.

• Released

  • Gemini 4 ArgonOct 13, 2026
  • Muse Spark 1.3Sep 2, 2026

  Gemini 4 Argon is 41 days newer.

Where each scores higher

On the 12 tests both have taken, each on its own scale. A gap of a point or two can sit within a test’s margin of error.

10 more tests have results for only one of them; the table below lists every result.

Everything side by side

Comparison of Gemini 4 Argon vs Muse Spark 1.3

Measure	Gemini 4 ArgonGoogle	Muse Spark 1.3Meta AI
Model
Maker	Google	Meta AI
Sold here by	Google	Cloudflare AI Gateway
API model ID	gemini-4-argon	meta/muse-spark-1.3
Released	Oct 13, 2026	Sep 2, 2026
Knowledge cutoff	Mar 2026	Not reported
Weights	Closed: hosted access only	Closed: hosted access only
Developer’s country	United States	United States
Hosts selling it	24including Google directly	14
Test results
Capability index	164.6 (best of these models)#5 of 277	156.8#21 of 277
Arena text	1525 (best of these models)#1 of 415	1494#11 of 415
LiveBench overall	Not tested	81.6%#7 of 70
Arena WebDev	1678 (best of these models)#9 of 142	1659#12 of 142
Arena coding	1561 (best of these models)#1 of 410	1537#14 of 410
LiveBench coding	Not tested	81.1%#17 of 70
Mock AIME 2024–2025	100.0% (best of these models)#1 of 303	99.2%#17 of 303
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3	86.0% (best of these models)#10 of 117	74.4%#21 of 117
FrontierMath Tier 4	78.0% (best of these models)#15 of 73	46.3%#26 of 73
Arena math	1529 (best of these models)#1 of 400	1503#13 of 400
LiveBench mathematics	Not tested	96.0%#13 of 70
SimpleQA Verified	76.0%#1 of 90	Not tested
CursorBench	52.9% (best of these models)#6 of 71	41.6%#29 of 71
LiveBench agentic coding	Not tested	64.1%#9 of 70
Arena creative writing	1516 (best of these models)#2 of 413	1461#28 of 413
Arena instruction following	1528 (best of these models)#1 of 415	1484#18 of 415
LiveBench language	Not tested	82.8%#25 of 70
LiveBench instructions	Not tested	78.0%#4 of 70
LiveBench data analysis	Not tested	79.6%#13 of 70
GPQA Diamond	96.4%#1 of 323	Not tested
Chess puzzles	59.0% (best of these models)#9 of 243	37.0%#46 of 243
Arena hard prompts	1550 (best of these models)#1 of 415	1516#12 of 415
LiveBench reasoning	Not tested	89.7%#16 of 70
Price per million tokens
Input	$2.00	$1.25 (best of these models)
Output	$10.00	$4.25 (best of these models)
Blended, 3 input to 1 output	$4.00	$2.00 (best of these models)
Cached input	$0.10 (best of these models)	$0.16
Audio input	$2.00	Not reported
The maker’s own price	This listing	Not sold directly
Limits
Context window	1M tokens	1M tokens
Max input	1M tokens	1M tokens
Max output	32.8K tokens	131.1K tokens (best of these models)
Features
Reads	audio, images, PDFs, text and video	audio, images, PDFs, text and video
Produces	text	text
Reasoning	Yeseffort low, medium, high	Yeseffort minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh
Tool calling	Yes	Yes
Structured output	Yes, such as JSON	Yes, such as JSON
File attachments	Yes	Yes
Temperature setting	Supported	Supported

Bold marks the better value in each row. Prices are each model’s own list price, or the middle price across hosts when the maker does not sell it, blended as three input tokens for every output token. Test results as published by LiveBench (Apache-2.0), Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Cursor CursorBench, compiled by Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), Arena (CC BY 4.0); model details and prices from models.dev (MIT). Confirm pricing with the provider before use.