Muse Spark Open vs Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B): Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Spark Open is developed by Meta, while Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) comes from NVIDIA. Both were released in October 2026. Muse Spark Open is the larger model at roughly 816 billion parameters, against 120 billion for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B).
The two models share 5 published benchmarks. Muse Spark Open leads on 4 of them, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) on 1. The widest gaps are on OSWorld-Verified, where Muse Spark Open scores 80.4% against 51.1%; SciCode, where Muse Spark Open scores 58.5% against 47.1%. Averaged across everything we track, Muse Spark Open sits at 62.3% and Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) at 60.9%.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) is the cheaper API at $0.20 per million input tokens and $1 per million output tokens, roughly 6 times cheaper than Muse Spark Open at $1.25 and $4.25. Muse Spark Open takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 262K for Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B). Muse Spark Open accepts text, images, audio, and video as input, while Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) accepts text, images, and video.
| Characteristic | Muse Spark Open | Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | NVIDIA |
| Release Date | October 15, 2026 | October 15, 2026 |
| Parameters | 816B | 120B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Context (output) | 1.0M | 262K |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.25 | $0.20 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.25 | $1.00 |
| Average Score | 62.3% | 60.9% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| OSWorld-Verified | 80.4% | 51.1% |
| SciCode | 58.5% | 47.1% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 76.4% | 66.7% |
| GDPval-AA | 46.7% | 40.4% |
| GPQA | 89.0% | 89.5% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Spark Open — 0.6, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) — 0.6.
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B A12B) is 4.6x cheaper: input $0.20/1M vs $1.25/1M tokens.
Muse Spark Open supports a larger context: 1M vs 262K tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 10/15/2026 and 10/15/2026.
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