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Claude Fable 5.1 vs Muse Wonder

As of 13 Oct 2026, Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leads on quality (70.0 vs 66.3 on the BenchLeader Index), but Muse Wonder (max) costs 2.5× less, so it is the better buy unless you need the extra quality.

Key differences

  • Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leads on quality: 70.0 vs 66.3.
  • Claude Fable 5.1 (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, composite, human preference, knowledge, long context, maths, multimodal.
  • Muse Wonder (max) is stronger in reasoning.
  • Muse Wonder (max) is 2.5× cheaper ($8.00 vs $20.00 per 1M blended).

Choose Claude Fable 5.1 (max) if

  • knowledge is the priority (78 vs 73 on the category score)
  • long context is the priority (68 vs 66 on the category score)

Choose Muse Wonder (max) if

  • reasoning is the priority (88 vs 77 on the category score)
  • cost matters: $8.00 against $20.00 per million tokens blended
  • the wait for the first word matters: 60.8 s against 246.6 s to first answer

Category by category

Category scores on the BenchLeader scale: 50 is the average evaluated model, 15 points is one standard deviation. A gap under one point is called level.

CategoryClaude Fable 5.1 (max)Muse Wonder (max)Leader
Reasoning76.987.8Muse Wonder
Coding75.3–not comparable
Agents & tools60.5–not comparable
Maths73.2–not comparable
Knowledge77.873.0Claude Fable 5.1
Human preference70.1–not comparable
Multimodal67.0–not comparable
Long context67.965.5Claude Fable 5.1
Composite82.178.2Claude Fable 5.1

Price, speed and latency

List prices blended at three input tokens per output token. Per-task prices use the token counts on the methodology page; suite cost is what Artificial Analysis paid to run its whole Intelligence Index.

MeasureClaude Fable 5.1 (max)Muse Wonder (max)
Blended price per 1M tokens$20.00$8.00
Input / output per 1M$10.00 / $50.00$4.00 / $20.00
Price per task: chat reply$0.019$0.0076
Price per task: summarise a 30-page report$0.150$0.060
Price per task: code edit$0.135$0.054
Price per task: agentic coding session$0.800$0.320
Price per task: structured extraction$0.030$0.012
Cost to run a full benchmark suite$7.63$4.52
Output speed67 tok/s85 tok/s
Time to first answer246.6 s60.8 s
Time to a complete answer254.1 s66.7 s

Every benchmark

MetricClaude Fable 5.1 (max)Muse Wonder (max)
BenchLeader Index70.066.3
Agents & tools score60.5–
Coding score75.3–
Composite score82.178.2
Human preference score70.1–
Knowledge score77.873.0
Long context score67.965.5
Maths score73.2–
Multimodal score67.0–
Reasoning score76.987.8
Blended price $/M$20.00$8.00
Output speed67 tok/s85 tok/s
Time to first answer246.6 s60.8 s
Context window1M1.0M
FrontierMath Tiers 1–390.2%–
FrontierMath Tier 487.8%–
OTIS Mock AIME100.0%–
SimpleQA Verified70.8%–
Terminal-Bench57.9%–
SciCode63.1%–
WeirdML92.9%–
ProofBench100.0%–
LMArena Text1501–
LMArena Hard Prompts1521–
LMArena Coding1534–
LMArena WebDev1744–
LMArena Vision1318–
LMArena Agent12.7–
LiveBench83.4%81.2%
LiveBench Reasoning91.7%90.6%
LiveBench Coding86.4%80.7%
LiveBench Agentic Coding66.1%62.7%
LiveBench Mathematics97.0%96.5%
LiveBench Data Analysis80.3%81.6%
LiveBench Language89.5%82.9%
LiveBench Instruction Following73.0%73.0%
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.253.452.4
AA-LCR85.3%80.7%
AA-Omniscience43.525.5
GPQA Diamond (AA)93.7%–
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)59.1%50.1%
SciCode (AA)63.1%60.3%
ARC-AGI-197.5%–
ARC-AGI-290.0%–
CritPt29.7%28.3%
GDPval-AA v2.162.8%63.5%
τ³-Banking (AA)47.2%–
ITBench SRE (AA)49.5%–
Analyst Agent (AA)57.5%–
CUA-bench13.2%–
LMArena Maths1522–
LMArena Creative Writing1483–
LMArena Instruction Following1498–
LMArena Multi-turn1485–
LMArena Longer Queries1509–
LMArena Document1493–
Chess Puzzles47.0%–
EBR-bench57.1%–
Mystery Game Puzzles58.0%–
CursorBench51.8%–
GDP.pdf27.6%–
FrontierSWE56.3%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)52.0%52.0%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)91.4%–
AutomationBench59.4%68.1%
GDP.pdf26.2%30.6%
MLCR71.1%–
Harvey LAB-AA v1.16.4%–
AA-Omniscience: accuracy67.2%41.1%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination27.4%73.5%
AA-Briefcase v1.116751659
FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)49.0%–
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)43.3%–
AA Cyber Index2501.9%–
CWE-Bench (AA)50.8%–
DeepSec-Bench (AA)23.5%–
CyberGym end-to-end (AA)0.8%–
AA-3D1131–

Data as of 2026-10-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

Claude Fable 5.1 vs Muse Wonder: questions

Is Claude Fable 5.1 better than Muse Wonder?
Claude Fable 5.1 (max) leads on quality: 70.0 vs 66.3. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; Claude Fable 5.1 (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-13, but check the category scores for your use.
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5.1 or Muse Wonder?
Muse Wonder is cheaper: $8.00 against $20.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
Which is faster, Claude Fable 5.1 or Muse Wonder?
Muse Wonder streams faster: 85 against 67 output tokens per second.
Which has the larger context window?
Muse Wonder accepts more context: 1.0M against 1M tokens.