Muse Spark 1.1 vs Qwen3.6-27B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Spark 1.1 is developed by Meta, while Qwen3.6-27B comes from Alibaba. Qwen3.6-27B was released in April 2026, and Muse Spark 1.1 followed 3 months later in July 2026. Qwen3.6-27B has a published size of about 28 billion parameters; Meta has not disclosed the parameter count of Muse Spark 1.1.
The two models share 3 published benchmarks. Muse Spark 1.1 leads on 3 of them. The widest gaps are on Humanity's Last Exam, where Muse Spark 1.1 scores 62.1% against 24.0%; CharXiv-R, where Muse Spark 1.1 scores 88.0% against 78.4%. Averaged across everything we track, Muse Spark 1.1 sits at 70.7% and Qwen3.6-27B at 77.5%.
Qwen3.6-27B is the cheaper API at $0.60 per million input tokens and $3.60 per million output tokens, roughly 2 times cheaper than Muse Spark 1.1 at $1.25 and $4.25. Muse Spark 1.1 takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Qwen3.6-27B. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Muse Spark 1.1 | Qwen3.6-27B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | Alibaba |
| Release Date | July 9, 2026 | April 21, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 28B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Context (output) | 131K | 66K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.25 | $0.60 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.25 | $3.60 |
| Average Score | 70.7% | 77.5% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Humanity's Last Exam | 62.1% | 24.0% |
| CharXiv-R | 88.0% | 78.4% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 61.5% | 53.5% |
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Verdict
Muse Spark 1.1 leads in 2 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Spark 1.1 — 0.7, Qwen3.6-27B — 0.8.
Qwen3.6-27B is 1.3x cheaper: input $0.60/1M vs $1.25/1M tokens.
Muse Spark 1.1 supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
Muse Spark 1.1 is newer: released 7/9/2026 vs 4/21/2026.
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