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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Muse Spark 1.1

Full profiles: Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) and Muse Spark 1.1 (Meta): every benchmark, price and rank.

Updated · Data from 8 sources

As of 25 Oct 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 and Muse Spark 1.1 are neck and neck on quality (63.2 vs 62.5 on the BenchLeader Index, inside the ±6.2 margin of error), and Muse Spark 1.1 costs 5.0× less, which makes it the better buy for most workloads. Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for agents & tools (65 vs 52); pick Muse Spark 1.1 for knowledge (69 vs 62).

Which to pick for…

The pick's numbers come first. Category scores on the BenchLeader scale (50 is the average model, 15 points one standard deviation). High confidence means a lead of half a standard deviation or more; under one point is called either.

Use casePickWhyConfidence
CodingMuse Spark 1.166 vs 61 category score; Arena WebDev 1543 vs 1555Medium
Agents & tool useClaude Opus 4.765 vs 52 category score; GBAEval 43.8% vs 7.9%High
MathsClaude Opus 4.767 vs 61 category score; Arena Maths 1491 vs 1493Medium
ReasoningMuse Spark 1.168 vs 65 category score; Arena Hard Prompts 1510 vs 1519Medium
KnowledgeMuse Spark 1.169 vs 62 category scoreMedium
Images and other mediaClaude Opus 4.767 vs 64 category score; Arena Vision 1317 vs 1293Medium
Chat quality (human preference)Claude Opus 4.768 vs 65 on Arena votesMedium
Lowest costMuse Spark 1.1$2.00 vs $10.00 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.092 vs $0.400–
Fastest first answerEither1.2 s (Claude Opus 4.7) vs 1.5 s (Muse Spark 1.1) to the first answer token–
High volume on a budgetNeither flagshipA smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs–

Key differences

  • Claude Opus 4.7 and Muse Spark 1.1 are neck and neck on quality (63.2 vs 62.5, within the ±6.2 margin).
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, human preference, maths, multimodal.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is stronger in coding, knowledge, reasoning, instruction following.
  • Muse Spark 1.1 is 5.0× cheaper ($2.00 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
  • Muse Spark 1.1 streams 3.3× faster (200 vs 60 tokens per second).

At a glance

SpecClaude Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1
DeveloperAnthropicMeta
Released16 Apr 20269 Jul 2026
Context window (tokens)1,000,0001,048,576
Compared atClaude Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1
Open weightsNoNo
Price in / out / cached input per 1M$5.00 / $25.00 / $0.500$1.25 / $4.25 / $0.150

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 Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1Leader
Reasoning64.867.9Muse Spark 1.1
Coding61.466.3Muse Spark 1.1
Agents & tools65.451.8Claude Opus 4.7
Maths66.761.3Claude Opus 4.7
Knowledge62.369.2Muse Spark 1.1
Instruction following–71.5not comparable
Human preference67.565.0Claude Opus 4.7
Multimodal66.863.6Claude Opus 4.7

Where sources disagree

Across the 14 benchmarks both have, Claude Opus 4.7 leads 13, Muse Spark 1.1 leads 1. Independent sources split: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on Arena Text; Muse Spark 1.1 leads on AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2.

Overall indexClaude Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1Leader
BenchLeader Index63.262.5neck and neck
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.230.9†33.7Muse Spark 1.1
Arena Text14941490Claude Opus 4.7

Each publisher runs its own tasks, harnesses and effort settings, so their overall verdicts can differ; BenchLeader reconciles them on one scale. † measured at another effort setting of the same model (the publisher did not test the one compared here).

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 Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1
Blended price per 1M tokens$10.00$2.00
Input / output per 1M$5.00 / $25.00$1.25 / $4.25
Cached input per 1M$0.500$0.150
Price per task: chat reply$0.0095$0.0018
Price per task: summarize a 30-page report$0.075$0.018
Price per task: code edit$0.068$0.014
Price per task: agentic coding session$0.400$0.092
Price per task: structured extraction$0.015$0.0034
Output speed60 tok/s200 tok/s
Time to first answer1.2 s1.5 s

Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 63.2 and takes 1 s to its first answer token; Claude Opus 4.7 (max) scores 62.4 in 23 s, Claude Opus 4.7 (high) scores 61.0 in 1 s. Muse Spark 1.1 scores 62.5 and takes 2 s to its first answer token; Muse Spark 1.1 (xhigh) scores 61.6 in 18 s. Higher effort means more thinking before the answer: better scores, longer waits and more tokens billed. How reasoning effort changes scores and cost.

Every benchmark

124 benchmarks, grouped by category; each name links to the board and its leaders. † measured at another effort setting of the same model, shown for reference and not counted as a win.

MetricPublisherClaude Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1
BenchLeader IndexBenchLeader63.262.5
Agents & tools scoreBenchLeader65.451.8
Coding scoreBenchLeader61.466.3
Human preference scoreBenchLeader67.565.0
Knowledge scoreBenchLeader62.369.2
Maths scoreBenchLeader66.761.3
Multimodal scoreBenchLeader66.863.6
Reasoning scoreBenchLeader64.867.9
Instruction following scoreBenchLeader–71.5
Blended price $/MBenchLeader$10.00$2.00
Output speedBenchLeader60 tok/s200 tok/s
Time to first answerBenchLeader1.2 s1.5 s
Context windowBenchLeader1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Reasoning
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub86.4%†–
Humanity's Last ExamScale AI / CAIS36.2%–
SimpleBenchSimpleBench61.7%–
Arena Hard PromptsArena (LMArena)15191510
LiveBench 1.0 ReasoningLiveBench87.2%†87.7%†
GPQA Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis91.4%†89.8%†
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)Artificial Analysis42.3%†46.2%†
GPQA Diamond (Vals)Vals AI90.2%91.2%†
Kagi LLM BenchmarkKagi LLM Benchmark73.3%–
ARC-AGI-3ARC Prize0.2%†–
CritPtArtificial Analysis12.0%†15.1%†
Chess PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub41.0%†34.0%†
Mystery Game PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub13.0%–
LMCAEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub52.2%†49.9%†
DTBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub94.7%†94.4%†
ForecastBenchForecastBench63.1%–
Coding
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub83.5%†–
SciCodeSciCode54.5%†58.8%
WeirdMLWeirdML76.4%–
FrontierCodeCognition38.5%–
GSO-BenchGSO-Bench44.1%–
Arena CodingArena (LMArena)15461533
Arena WebDevArena (LMArena)15551543
LiveBench 1.0 CodingLiveBench82.1%†77.2%†
SciCode (AA)Artificial Analysis–58.8%†
Show all 124 benchmarks
MetricPublisherClaude Opus 4.7Muse Spark 1.1
Coding
LiveCodeBenchVals AI85.1%85.9%†
SWE-bench (Vals)Vals AI82.0%82.0%†
SWE-Bench ProScale AI SEAL–61.5%
Code MigrationVals AI43.9%31.1%†
ProgramBenchVals AI0.0%0.0%†
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Vals AI71.0%72.2%†
SWE-Bench Pro (private)Scale AI SEAL–61.5%
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnAScale AI SEAL40.3%42.2%†
SWE Atlas: RefactoringScale AI SEAL48.6%–
SWE Atlas: Test WritingScale AI SEAL38.5%41.5%†
MirrorCodeEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub31.1%†–
Surface Evolver BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–52.5%†
DeepSWE v1.1Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub–53.3%
ALE-BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub1323.0–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis–6.1%†
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis83.2%†77.9%†
Agents & tools
Terminal-BenchTerminal-Bench80.2%–
OSWorld-Verified 2.0OSWorld18.2%†–
APEX-AgentsMercor49.2%†31.8%
Arena AgentArena (LMArena)–-6.9
LiveBench Agentic CodingLiveBench50.7%†58.5%†
Terminal-Bench HardArtificial Analysis51.5%†–
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)Artificial Analysis88.6%†–
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)Vals AI68.5%69.3%†
MCP AtlasScale AI SEAL79.1%†88.1%
HiL-BenchScale AI SEAL41.7%–
τ³-bench Bankingτ²-bench40.2%†40.5%†
τ³-Banking (AA)Artificial Analysis34.6%†31.8%†
ITBench SRE (AA)Artificial Analysis46.7%†–
Analyst Agent (AA)Artificial Analysis43.8%†–
Finance Agent v2Vals AI51.5%57.2%†
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1Vals AI6.7%20.0%†
Legal Research BenchVals AI38.5%38.0%†
SkillsBenchVals AI–59.2%†
Tax Agent BenchVals AI23.7%–
Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals)Vals AI68.5%–
Time Horizon Index: KSPVals AI–1.7%†
Arena SearchArena (LMArena)1210–
PostTrainBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub28.6%†–
ExploitBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub26.5%–
GBAEvalEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub43.8%7.9%
Vending-Bench 2Andon Labs10936.86520.5
AutomationBenchArtificial Analysis–38.9%†
GDP.pdf (AA)Artificial Analysis–14.4%†
Maths
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub70.2%†–
FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub31.7%†–
OTIS Mock AIMEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub86.7%†–
ProofBenchVals AI54.0%†39.0%
LiveBench MathematicsLiveBench92.8%†87.1%†
AIME (Vals)Vals AI96.3%–
AIME 2026MathArena95.8%†–
HMMT February 2026MathArena93.9%†–
MathArena ApexMathArena40.6%†–
Arena MathsArena (LMArena)14911493
Knowledge
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub51.7%†57.8%
LiveBench 1.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench78.3%†72.5%†
AA-OmniscienceArtificial Analysis27.3†28.1†
MMLU-ProVals AI89.9%88.7%†
LegalBenchVals AI85.3%85.0%†
CorpFinVals AI66.1%71.3%†
TaxEvalVals AI75.3%79.7%†
PRBench FinanceScale AI SEAL–55.0%
PRBench LegalScale AI SEAL–57.0%
MultiNRCScale AI SEAL–65.6%
CaseLaw v2Vals AI68.4%–
Excel Modeling BenchmarkVals AI63.7%56.4%†
MedCodeVals AI54.9%–
MedScribeVals AI83.0%88.9%†
Public Benefits Bench v1.1Vals AI–61.3%†
EBR-benchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub19.1%†–
GDP.pdfEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub21.0%†15.0%
AA-Omniscience: accuracyArtificial Analysis48.9%†52.0%†
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationArtificial Analysis57.7%†50.0%†
Instruction following
LiveBench LanguageLiveBench77.9%†74.3%†
LiveBench Instruction FollowingLiveBench66.7%†69.6%†
IFBenchArtificial Analysis58.6%†–
MultiChallengeScale AI SEAL–75.3%
Arena Instruction FollowingArena (LMArena)14931472
Human preference
Arena TextArena (LMArena)14941490
EQ-Bench 4EQ-Bench12941252
Arena Creative WritingArena (LMArena)14821443
Arena Multi-turnArena (LMArena)15141496
Arena Longer QueriesArena (LMArena)15081480
Multimodal
Arena VisionArena (LMArena)13171293
MMMU-ProArtificial Analysis78.8%†–
MMMU-Pro (Vals)Vals AI85.5%86.6%†
MortgageTaxVals AI70.3%66.1%†
SAGEVals AI56.1%45.6%†
VTBScale AI SEAL–44.8%
Blueprint-Bench 2Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub24.5%–
Long context
AA-LCRArtificial Analysis78.7%†77.7%†
Arena DocumentArena (LMArena)14941480
MLCRArtificial Analysis–7.2%†
Composite
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub156.8154.1
LiveBench 1.0LiveBench76.5%†75.3%†
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2Artificial Analysis40.7†33.7†
Vals RSI IndexVals AI19.1%†–
Vals Multimodal IndexVals AI67.4%66.7%†
Safety & honesty
FORTRESSScale AI SEAL–12.4%

Data as of 2026-10-25. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

What changed

  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Muse Spark 1.1: 1 score revision.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 new result (Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1).
  • Muse Spark 1.1: BenchLeader Index 63.1 → 62.5.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Muse Spark 1.1: 1 score revision.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: BenchLeader Index 64.0 → 63.5.
  • Muse Spark 1.1: 1 new result (PRBench Legal).

Rankings: Best LLM overall · Best LLM for coding · Best LLM for agents · Best cheap LLMs

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Muse Spark 1.1: questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Muse Spark 1.1?
Claude Opus 4.7 and Muse Spark 1.1 are neck and neck on quality (63.2 vs 62.5, within the ±6.2 margin). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; the two are within the margin of error as of 2026-10-25, so check the category scores for your use.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Muse Spark 1.1, and will that change?
Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper today: $2.00 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. No price change has been announced for either.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Muse Spark 1.1 for coding?
Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher in coding (66 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average). On Arena WebDev, the top shared coding benchmark, it is 1555 for Claude Opus 4.7 against 1543 for Muse Spark 1.1.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Muse Spark 1.1 for agents and tool use?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in agentic tasks (65 vs 52 on the category index, where 50 is average).
Which is better for long documents?
Both take about 1M tokens: Claude Opus 4.7 1,000,000, Muse Spark 1.1 1,048,576.
Which has lower latency?
Claude Opus 4.7 answers first: 1.2 s against 1.5 s to the first answer token, as Artificial Analysis measures it. Reasoning effort drives most of this: a higher setting thinks longer before it answers.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.7 or Muse Spark 1.1?
Muse Spark 1.1 streams faster: 200 against 60 output tokens per second.
Do independent benchmarks agree on Claude Opus 4.7 vs Muse Spark 1.1?
Across the 14 benchmarks both have, Claude Opus 4.7 leads 13, Muse Spark 1.1 leads 1. Independent sources split: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on Arena Text; Muse Spark 1.1 leads on AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2.
When was Muse Spark 1.1 released?
Muse Spark 1.1 was released on 9 Jul 2026.