GPT-5.6 Sol vs Muse Wonder
As of 13 Oct 2026, GPT-5.6 Sol (max) is the better pick for most workloads: it leads on quality (67.4 vs 66.3 on the BenchLeader Index) at about the same price.
GPT-5.6 Sol 
Muse Wonder Key differences
- GPT-5.6 Sol (max) leads on quality: 67.4 vs 66.3.
- GPT-5.6 Sol (max) is stronger in agents & tools, coding, instruction following, long context, maths, multimodal.
- Muse Wonder (max) is stronger in composite, knowledge, reasoning.
- They cost about the same ($8.00 per 1M blended).
Choose GPT-5.6 Sol (max) if
- long context is the priority (67 vs 66 on the category score)
Choose Muse Wonder (max) if
- reasoning is the priority (88 vs 73 on the category score)
- knowledge is the priority (73 vs 66 on the category score)
- the wait for the first word matters: 60.8 s against 128.6 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.
| Category | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) | Muse Wonder (max) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 72.6 | 87.8 | Muse Wonder |
| Coding | 65.8 | – | not comparable |
| Agents & tools | 66.5 | – | not comparable |
| Maths | 71.5 | – | not comparable |
| Knowledge | 66.0 | 73.0 | Muse Wonder |
| Instruction following | 71.0 | – | not comparable |
| Multimodal | 66.7 | – | not comparable |
| Long context | 67.2 | 65.5 | GPT-5.6 Sol |
| Composite | 75.0 | 78.2 | Muse Wonder |
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 | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) | Muse Wonder (max) |
|---|---|---|
| Blended price per 1M tokens | $8.00 | $8.00 |
| Input / output per 1M | $4.00 / $20.00 | $4.00 / $20.00 |
| Price per task: chat reply | $0.0076 | $0.0076 |
| Price per task: summarise a 30-page report | $0.060 | $0.060 |
| Price per task: code edit | $0.054 | $0.054 |
| Price per task: agentic coding session | $0.320 | $0.320 |
| Price per task: structured extraction | $0.012 | $0.012 |
| Cost to run a full benchmark suite | $1.99 | $4.52 |
| Output speed | 87 tok/s | 85 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 128.6 s | 60.8 s |
| Time to a complete answer | 134.3 s | 66.7 s |
Every benchmark
| Metric | GPT-5.6 Sol (max) | Muse Wonder (max) |
|---|---|---|
| BenchLeader Index | 67.4 | 66.3 |
| Agents & tools score | 66.5 | – |
| Coding score | 65.8 | – |
| Composite score | 75.0 | 78.2 |
| Instruction following score | 71.0 | – |
| Knowledge score | 66.0 | 73.0 |
| Long context score | 67.2 | 65.5 |
| Maths score | 71.5 | – |
| Multimodal score | 66.7 | – |
| Reasoning score | 72.6 | 87.8 |
| Blended price $/M | $8.00 | $8.00 |
| Output speed | 87 tok/s | 85 tok/s |
| Time to first answer | 128.6 s | 60.8 s |
| Context window | 1.1M | 1.0M |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.5% | – |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 89.1% | – |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 82.9% | – |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | – |
| SimpleQA Verified | 69.7% | – |
| Terminal-Bench | 37.3% | – |
| OSWorld-Verified 2.0 | 27.3% | – |
| SciCode | 57.1% | – |
| WeirdML | 87.0% | – |
| ProofBench | 83.0% | – |
| LiveBench | 81.0% | 81.2% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 91.7% | 90.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 83.9% | 80.7% |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding | 56.2% | 62.7% |
| LiveBench Mathematics | 96.2% | 96.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 79.8% | 81.6% |
| LiveBench Language | 87.7% | 82.9% |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 71.8% | 73.0% |
| AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2 | 47.0 | 52.4 |
| IFBench | 72.7% | – |
| AA-LCR | 84.0% | 80.7% |
| MMMU-Pro | 83.4% | – |
| AA-Omniscience | 22.0 | 25.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard | 65.9% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (AA) | 94.1% | – |
| Humanity's Last Exam (AA) | 49.5% | 50.1% |
| SciCode (AA) | 57.1% | 60.3% |
| τ²-Bench Telecom (AA) | 85.1% | – |
| LiveCodeBench | 82.6% | – |
| MMLU-Pro | 89.1% | – |
| IOI | 91.2% | – |
| LegalBench | 87.0% | – |
| CorpFin | 64.4% | – |
| TaxEval | 74.8% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 85.8% | – |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 96.2% | – |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 95.2% | – |
| Vals Index | 58.0 | – |
| PRBench Finance | 50.5% | – |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 96.5% | – |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 92.5% | – |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 7.8% | – |
| CritPt | 32.3% | 28.3% |
| GDPval-AA v2.1 | 55.4% | 63.5% |
| τ³-Banking (AA) | 44.3% | – |
| ITBench SRE (AA) | 56.2% | – |
| Analyst Agent (AA) | 47.5% | – |
| BioMysteryBench | 71.1% | – |
| Code Migration | 52.9% | – |
| CUA-bench | 8.3% | – |
| CyberBench | 76.3% | – |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark | 72.3% | – |
| Finance Agent v2 | 53.8% | – |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark | 2.5% | – |
| Legal Research Bench | 48.1% | – |
| MedCode | 44.0% | – |
| MedScribe | 85.2% | – |
| MMMU-Pro (Vals) | 88.8% | – |
| MortgageTax | 67.3% | – |
| MysteryMechanism | 33.3% | – |
| ProgramBench | 1.5% | – |
| Public Benefits Bench | 66.5% | – |
| SAGE | 52.6% | – |
| SkillsBench | 54.1% | – |
| SREBench | 30.5% | – |
| Tax Agent Bench | 68.0% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals) | 37.9% | – |
| Terminal-Bench Science | 20.0% | – |
| Time Horizon Index: KSP | 23.8% | – |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 72.6% | – |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 | 20.0% | – |
| Vibe Code Bench v1.1 | 80.5% | – |
| Web Search Index | 43.6% | – |
| DrugDiscoveryBench | 56.5% | – |
| Chess Puzzles | 55.0% | – |
| EBR-bench | 44.8% | – |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 58.0% | – |
| BALROG | 60.0% | – |
| PostTrainBench | 36.2% | – |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | 72.7% | – |
| LMCA | 58.4% | – |
| DTBench | 95.5% | – |
| CursorBench | 41.7% | – |
| ALE-Bench | 2176.9 | – |
| GDP.pdf | 30.7% | – |
| FrontierSWE | 32.2% | – |
| BTF-3 | 13.7% | – |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA) | 39.9% | 52.0% |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA) | 88.0% | – |
| AutomationBench | – | 68.1% |
| GDP.pdf | – | 30.6% |
| AA-Omniscience: accuracy | 59.4% | 41.1% |
| AA-Omniscience: non-hallucination | 7.8% | 73.5% |
| AA-Briefcase v1.1 | – | 1659 |
Data as of 2026-10-13. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.
GPT-5.6 Sol vs Muse Wonder: questions
- Is GPT-5.6 Sol better than Muse Wonder?
- GPT-5.6 Sol (max) leads on quality: 67.4 vs 66.3. The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; GPT-5.6 Sol (max) is ahead overall as of 2026-10-13, but check the category scores for your use.
- Which is cheaper, GPT-5.6 Sol or Muse Wonder?
- GPT-5.6 Sol is cheaper: $8.00 against $8.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token.
- Which is faster, GPT-5.6 Sol or Muse Wonder?
- GPT-5.6 Sol streams faster: 87 against 85 output tokens per second.
- Which has the larger context window?
- GPT-5.6 Sol accepts more context: 1.1M against 1.0M tokens.