Claude Opus 4.8 vs Muse Wonder Full
Full profiles: Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) and Muse Wonder Full (Meta): every benchmark, price and rank.
Updated · Data from 12 sources
As of 24 Oct 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 (max) and Muse Wonder Full (max) are neck and neck on quality (63.3 vs 70.7, inside the ±9.9 margin of error) and close on price, so pick on the category that matters to you. Muse Wonder Full leads in every category we measure both in.
Claude Opus 4.8 benchmarks max Anthropic
Muse Wonder Full benchmarks max MetaOpen in the comparison toolWhich 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 case | Pick | Why | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | Muse Wonder Full | 72 vs 59 category score; SciCode (AA) 62.6% vs 54.4% | High |
| Reasoning | Muse Wonder Full | 95 vs 69 category score; CritPt 32.9% vs 20.9% | High |
| Knowledge | Muse Wonder Full | 71 vs 67 category score; AA-Omniscience 30.1 vs 28.8 | Medium |
| Long documents | Muse Wonder Full | 67 vs 64 category score; AA-LCR 83.7% vs 77.7% | Medium |
| High volume on a budget | Neither flagship | A smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs | – |
Key differences
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max) and Muse Wonder Full (max) are neck and neck on quality (63.3 vs 70.7, within the ±9.9 margin).
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max) is stronger in agents & tools, instruction following, maths.
- Muse Wonder Full (max) is stronger in coding, composite, knowledge, long context, reasoning.
At a glance
| Spec | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder Full |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | Meta |
| Released | 28 May 2026 | 12 Oct 2026 |
| Context window (tokens) | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Compared at | Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | Muse Wonder Full (max) |
| Open weights | No | No |
| Price in / out / cached input per 1M | $5.00 / $25.00 / $0.500 | – |
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.
| Category | Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | Muse Wonder Full (max) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 68.8 | 94.9 | Muse Wonder Full |
| Coding | 58.9 | 72.3 | Muse Wonder Full |
| Agents & tools | 56.5 | – | not comparable |
| Maths | 68.1 | – | not comparable |
| Knowledge | 66.9 | 71.4 | Muse Wonder Full |
| Instruction following | 62.1 | – | not comparable |
| Long context | 63.8 | 67.0 | Muse Wonder Full |
| Composite | 76.2 | 91.9 | Muse Wonder Full |
Where sources disagree
Across the 11 benchmarks both have, Claude Opus 4.8 leads 1, Muse Wonder Full leads 10. Every overall index that rates both puts Muse Wonder Full ahead.
| Overall index | Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | Muse Wonder Full (max) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 63.3 | 70.7 | neck and neck |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 41.8 | 55.8 | Muse Wonder Full |
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.
| Measure | Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | Muse Wonder Full (max) |
|---|---|---|
| Blended price per 1M tokens | $10.00 | – |
| Input / output per 1M | $5.00 / $25.00 | – / – |
| Cached input per 1M | $0.500 | – |
| Price per task: chat reply | $0.0095 | – |
| Price per task: summarize a 30-page report | $0.075 | – |
| Price per task: code edit | $0.068 | – |
| Price per task: agentic coding session | $0.400 | – |
| Price per task: structured extraction | $0.015 | – |
| Cost to run a full benchmark suite | $4.08 | – |
| Output speed | 63 tok/s | – |
| Time to first answer | 27.5 s | – |
| Time to a complete answer | 35.4 s | – |
Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Claude Opus 4.8 (max) scores 63.3 and takes 28 s to its first answer token; Claude Opus 4.8 (high) scores 60.7 in 1 s, Claude Opus 4.8 scores 60.1 in 1 s. Muse Wonder Full (max) scores 70.7. 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
148 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.
| Metric | Publisher | Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | Muse Wonder Full (max) |
|---|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | BenchLeader | 63.3 | 70.7 |
| Agents & tools score | BenchLeader | 56.5 | – |
| Coding score | BenchLeader | 58.9 | 72.3 |
| Composite score | BenchLeader | 76.2 | 91.9 |
| Instruction following score | BenchLeader | 62.1 | – |
| Knowledge score | BenchLeader | 66.9 | 71.4 |
| Long context score | BenchLeader | 63.8 | 67.0 |
| Maths score | BenchLeader | 68.1 | – |
| Reasoning score | BenchLeader | 68.8 | 94.9 |
| Blended price $/M | BenchLeader | $10.00 | – |
| Output speed | BenchLeader | 63 tok/s | – |
| Time to first answer | BenchLeader | 27.5 s | – |
| Context window | BenchLeader | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Reasoning | |||
| GPQA Diamond | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 91.0% | – |
| SimpleBench | SimpleBench | 64.8%† | – |
| Arena Hard Prompts | Arena (LMArena) | 1505† | – |
| LiveBench 2.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 89.2%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 Reasoning | LiveBench | 89.2% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 92.0% | – |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 48.7% | 53.6% |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Vals AI | 92.4%† | – |
| EnigmaEval | Scale AI SEAL | 23.5%† | – |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8%† | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | ARC Prize | 92.5% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | ARC Prize | 72.1%† | – |
| ARC-AGI-3 | ARC Prize | 1.5%† | – |
| CritPt | Artificial Analysis | 20.9% | 32.9% |
| MysteryMechanism | Vals AI | – | 35.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 52.0% | – |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 36.0% | – |
| LMCA | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 57.5% | – |
| DTBench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 94.9% | – |
| ForecastBench | ForecastBench | 66.3% | – |
| BTF-3 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 14.0%† | – |
| Coding | |||
| SciCode | SciCode | 53.5% | – |
| WeirdML | WeirdML | 70.5%† | – |
| FrontierCode | Cognition | 46.5%† | – |
| GSO-Bench | GSO-Bench | 47.1%† | – |
Show all 148 benchmarks
| Metric | Publisher | Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | Muse Wonder Full (max) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | |||
| Arena Coding | Arena (LMArena) | 1529† | – |
| Arena WebDev | Arena (LMArena) | 1536† | 1726 |
| LiveBench 2.0 Coding | LiveBench | 77.3%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 Coding | LiveBench | 81.8% | – |
| SciCode (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 54.4% | 62.6% |
| LiveCodeBench | Vals AI | 87.8%† | – |
| IOI | Vals AI | – | 79.8% |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Vals AI | 88.6%† | – |
| Code Migration | Vals AI | 47.3%† | 61.0% |
| Code Migration v1.1 | Vals AI | – | 62.8% |
| ProgramBench | Vals AI | 1.0%† | 0.5% |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | Vals AI | – | 47.3% |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | Vals AI | – | 34.0% |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 82.7%† | 86.0% |
| SWE Atlas: Codebase QnA | Scale AI SEAL | 57.3%† | – |
| SWE Atlas: Refactoring | Scale AI SEAL | 46.7%† | – |
| SWE Atlas: Test Writing | Scale AI SEAL | 49.6%† | – |
| Surface Evolver Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 87.5%† | – |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 59.0% | – |
| ALE-Bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 1563.8† | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 21.7% | 57.1% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 84.6% | – |
| FrontierCode 1.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 44.9% |
| Agents & tools | |||
| Terminal-Bench | Terminal-Bench | 23.6% | – |
| OSWorld-Verified 2.0 | OSWorld | 20.6% | – |
| Remote Labor Index | Scale AI / CAIS | 8.3%† | – |
| APEX-Agents | Mercor | 48.9% | – |
| LiveBench Long Agentic | LiveBench | 48.3%† | – |
| LiveBench Browser | LiveBench | 96.0%† | – |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | LiveBench | 50.5% | – |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | Artificial Analysis | 58.3% | – |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 94.4% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Vals AI | 71.9%† | – |
| MCP Atlas | Scale AI SEAL | 82.2% | – |
| HiL-Bench | Scale AI SEAL | 35.3%† | – |
| τ³-bench Banking | τ²-bench | 39.7% | – |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | Artificial Analysis | – | 67.8% |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 34.2% | – |
| Analyst Agent (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 45.0% | – |
| CyberBench | Vals AI | – | 73.6% |
| Finance Agent v2 | Vals AI | 53.9%† | 59.1% |
| Finance Agent v2.1 | Vals AI | – | 67.6% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | – | 23.3% |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1 | Vals AI | 9.6%† | 21.7% |
| Legal Research Bench | Vals AI | 43.8%† | 53.4% |
| Robo-bench | Vals AI | – | 10.4% |
| SkillsBench | Vals AI | 59.2%† | – |
| SREBench | Vals AI | – | 11.8% |
| Tax Agent Bench | Vals AI | 30.0%† | 43.0% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals) | Vals AI | 70.0%† | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | Vals AI | 23.2%† | 58.1% |
| Terminal-Bench Science | Vals AI | 4.3%† | 37.1% |
| Time Horizon Index: KSP | Vals AI | 11.8%† | – |
| Arena Search | Arena (LMArena) | 1195† | – |
| DeepResearch Bench | DeepResearch Bench | 50.2%† | – |
| PostTrainBench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 32.9% | – |
| GBAEval | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 70.9%† | – |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs | 2992.3 | – |
| AutomationBench | Artificial Analysis | 45.6% | 71.3% |
| GDP.pdf (AA) | Artificial Analysis | 22.8% | 32.6% |
| Harvey LAB-AA v1.1 | Harvey | – | 13.1% |
| EnterpriseOps-Gym | Artificial Analysis | 44.0% | – |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | Artificial Analysis | – | 1729 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA) | Artificial Analysis | – | 37.1% |
| FACTS Search | 79.6%† | – | |
| Maths | |||
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 80.0% | – |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 56.1% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 98.3% | – |
| ProofBench | Vals AI | 69.0% | – |
| LiveBench Mathematics | LiveBench | 94.3% | – |
| AIME 2026 | MathArena | 100.0% | – |
| HMMT February 2026 | MathArena | 95.5% | – |
| MathArena Apex | MathArena | 81.3% | – |
| Arena Maths | Arena (LMArena) | 1477† | – |
| Knowledge | |||
| SimpleQA Verified | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 53.0% | – |
| LiveBench 2.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 66.0%† | – |
| LiveBench Research | LiveBench | 81.8%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 Data Analysis | LiveBench | 66.0% | – |
| AA-Omniscience | Artificial Analysis | 28.8 | 30.1 |
| MMLU-Pro | Vals AI | 89.6%† | – |
| LegalBench | Vals AI | 83.6%† | 87.4% |
| CorpFin | Vals AI | 66.7%† | – |
| TaxEval | Vals AI | 75.6%† | – |
| BioMysteryBench | Vals AI | – | 73.3% |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | Vals AI | 69.4%† | 71.9% |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1 | Vals AI | – | 75.0% |
| MedCode | Vals AI | 53.2%† | 49.9% |
| MedScribe | Vals AI | 85.8%† | 89.3% |
| Public Benefits Bench v1.1 | Vals AI | 68.1%† | 73.8% |
| DrugDiscoveryBench | Scale AI SEAL | 46.8% | – |
| EBR-bench | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 28.6% | – |
| GDP.pdf | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 24.0% | – |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracy | Artificial Analysis | 48.8% | 43.2% |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination | Artificial Analysis | 60.8% | 77.0% |
| Instruction following | |||
| LiveBench Language | LiveBench | 79.7% | – |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | LiveBench | 72.0% | – |
| IFBench | Artificial Analysis | 62.2% | – |
| Arena Instruction Following | Arena (LMArena) | 1478† | – |
| Human preference | |||
| Arena Text | Arena (LMArena) | 1474† | – |
| EQ-Bench 4 | EQ-Bench | 1281† | – |
| Arena Creative Writing | Arena (LMArena) | 1463† | – |
| Arena Multi-turn | Arena (LMArena) | 1495† | – |
| Arena Longer Queries | Arena (LMArena) | 1499† | – |
| Multimodal | |||
| Arena Vision | Arena (LMArena) | 1289† | – |
| LiveBench Design | LiveBench | 78.8%† | – |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals) | Vals AI | 86.6%† | – |
| MortgageTax | Vals AI | 69.9%† | – |
| SAGE | Vals AI | 54.8%† | – |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 14.5%† | – |
| Long context | |||
| AA-LCR | Artificial Analysis | 77.7% | 83.7% |
| Arena Document | Arena (LMArena) | 1475† | – |
| MLCR | Artificial Analysis | 19.4% | – |
| Composite | |||
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub | 159.0† | – |
| LiveBench 2.0 | LiveBench | 76.8%† | – |
| LiveBench 1.0 | LiveBench | 76.2% | – |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | Artificial Analysis | 41.8 | 55.8 |
| Vals Index | Vals AI | – | 66.8 |
| Vals Finance Index | Vals AI | – | 64.5% |
| Vals RSI Index | Vals AI | 24.0% | 24.4% |
| Vals Science Index | Vals AI | – | 48.5% |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Vals AI | 70.9%† | – |
| Vals Router Index | Vals AI | – | 66.8%† |
| Safety & honesty | |||
| FORTRESS | Scale AI SEAL | 18.2% | – |
Data as of 2026-10-24. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
What changed
- Muse Wonder Full (max): 1 new result (Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 (AA)).
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 1 new result (Vals RSI Index).
- Muse Wonder Full (max): 9 new results (Code Migration v1.1, Excel Modeling Benchmark v1.1, Finance Agent v2.1…).
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 1 score revision.
- Muse Wonder Full (max): 1 new result (FrontierCode 1.1 (AA)).
- Muse Wonder Full (max): BenchLeader Index 68.6 → 70.7.
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 1 new result (ForecastBench).
- Muse Wonder Full (max): 1 new result (Arena WebDev); 2 score revisions.
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max): BenchLeader Index 62.5 → 63.4.
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max): 5 new results (AutomationBench, GDP.pdf (AA), MLCR…).
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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Muse Wonder Full: questions
- Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Muse Wonder Full?
- Claude Opus 4.8 (max) and Muse Wonder Full (max) are neck and neck on quality (63.3 vs 70.7, within the ±9.9 margin). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; the two are within the margin of error as of 2026-10-24, so check the category scores for your use.
- Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Muse Wonder Full for coding?
- Muse Wonder Full scores higher in coding (72 vs 59 on the category index, where 50 is average).
- Which is better for long documents?
- Muse Wonder Full scores higher on long-context benchmarks (67 vs 64). Both accept 1,000,000 tokens of context.
- Do independent benchmarks agree on Claude Opus 4.8 vs Muse Wonder Full?
- Across the 11 benchmarks both have, Claude Opus 4.8 leads 1, Muse Wonder Full leads 10. Every overall index that rates both puts Muse Wonder Full ahead.
- When was Muse Wonder Full released?
- Muse Wonder Full was released on 12 Oct 2026.