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Muse Ember vs Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Muse Ember leads the LLM Stats Score 45.9 to 1.4.

Meta · Microsoft · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Muse Ember leads the overall LLM Stats Score 45.9 to 1.4, ranking #47 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Muse Ember

  • overall performance matters — it scores 45.9 and ranks #47 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Nov 2026

Choose Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Muse Ember
Meta
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Microsoft
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
45.9
#47
1.4
#365
Reasoning
48.1
#24
0.9
#357
Coding
27.3
#85
-4.0
#296
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.10 / M
— / M
Output price
$0.50 / M
— / M
Context window
1,048,576
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Individual benchmarks

6 reported for Muse Ember · 31 for Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

No common benchmarks found

Muse Ember and Phi-3.5-MoE-instructdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Human preference

Blind head-to-head votes and playground preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Muse Ember specifies input context (1,048,576 tokens). Only Muse Ember specifies output context (524,288 tokens).

Meta
Muse Ember
Input1,048,576 tokens
Output524,288 tokens
Microsoft
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Fri Nov 13 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Muse Ember supports multimodal inputs, whereas Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct does not.

Muse Ember can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Muse Ember

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Muse Ember is licensed under a proprietary license, while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct uses MIT.

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Muse Ember

Proprietary

Closed source

Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Muse Ember was released on 2026-11-09, while Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct was released on 2024-08-23.

Muse Ember is 27 months newer than Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct.

Muse Ember

Nov 9, 2026

3 days ago

2.2yr newer
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct

Aug 23, 2024

2.2 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Muse Ember and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Muse Ember
✓ Preferred
Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Muse Ember vs Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct.

Which is better, Muse Ember or Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct?

Muse Ember leads the LLM Stats Score 45.9 to 1.4. Muse Ember is made by Meta and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is made by Microsoft. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Muse Ember compare to Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct in benchmarks?

Muse Ember scores PerceptionBench: 80.6%, OSWorld 2.1 (partial): 69.5%, Agents' Last Exam: 61.6%, Personal Superintelligence Index: 46.8%, Terminal-Bench 4.0: 40.9%. Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct scores ARC-C: 91.0%, OpenBookQA: 89.6%, GSM8k: 88.7%, PIQA: 88.6%, RULER: 87.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Muse Ember and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct?

Muse Ember supports 1.0M tokens and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Muse Ember and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (45.9 vs 1.4), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs MIT). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Muse Ember and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct?

Muse Ember is developed by Meta and Phi-3.5-MoE-instruct is developed by Microsoft.

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