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Meta: Muse Spark Open vs NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-19.

Meta: Muse Spark Open NVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
Vendormetanvidia
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score63.940.1
Input Price$1.25/M$0.10/M
Output Price$4.25/M$0.40/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output943,718235,929
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index64.143.7

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Nemotron 3.5 Super VL costs $0.20 and Muse Spark Open costs $2.31, so Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is about 11.6 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Muse Spark Open offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Muse Spark Open leads 63.9 to 40.1.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Spark Open scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Nemotron 3.5 Super VL on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Pick Muse Spark Open if you need audio input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Nemotron 3.5 Super VL if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskMeta: Muse Spark OpenNVIDIA: Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
SQL Generation 141 139
Code Review 144 140
Code Completion 120 132
Code Refactoring 146 143
Bug Fixing 148 144
Unit Test Generation 131 129
Code Documentation 136 135
Regex Writing 125 124
CI/CD Pipelines 127 125
Frontend Component Design 129 127
Data Analysis 133 130
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 137 134
JSON Extraction 122 131
Bulk Data Labeling 120 129
OCR / Document Parsing 134 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 134 133
Long-Document Summarization 147 144
Short-Form Summarization 118 126
Blog Post Writing 129 127

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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