Claude Fable 5 vs Muse Spark Open
Updated October 21, 2026. 26 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 26 shared
Decision reading
Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 82.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 62.1 for Muse Spark Open.
Pick Muse Spark Open when output tokens cost 11.8x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 1M tokens.
Model AClaude Fable 5Anthropic82.1/1002 independent benchmarks$2.16 per solved taskModel BMuse Spark OpenMeta62.1/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 26
- Claude Fable 5 only
- 100
- Muse Spark Open only
- 0
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, four public coding benchmarks
Claude Fable 5
Claude Fable 5 scores 82.1 against 62.1.
2 benchmarks behind each score
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 49.6.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 50.7.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 93.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has a MMLU Pro result, 91.5%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open leads, 1311 against 1296.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Muse Spark Open
Claude Fable 5 $0.035, Muse Spark Open $0.0034 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Fable 5 has the number, $2.16.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Fable 5 82.1 from 2 benchmarks, Muse Spark Open 62.1 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Agentic work, 21.9 points apart on average over 8 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LiveBench browser: Claude Fable 5 92.0% against Muse Spark Open 36.0%, 56.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Fable 5 $50.00 against Muse Spark Open $4.25 per million output tokens, 11.8x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Fable 5 takes 1M tokens, Muse Spark Open 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Fable 5 | Bars | Muse Spark Open | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 9 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 7 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 2 | 1 | ||
| General | 2 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 2 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index90
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 98.3% | 73.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev | 1624 | 1528 | Claude Fable 5 |
| AA Coding Index | 76.5 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 89.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 41.4% | 6.6% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.3% | 76.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 55.1% | 21.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 80.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SciCode | 61.0% | 58.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 62.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierCode | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 78.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| WeirdML | 91.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MirrorCode | 63.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | 2041.3 | 1590.1 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1518 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1513 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1631 | 1529 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1651 | 1495 | Claude Fable 5 |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1623 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 49.6 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 163.4 | 155.1 | Claude Fable 5 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index71
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 50.7 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1261 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1280 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1264 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1289 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1292 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1285 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1277 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1295 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench research | 86.9% | 80.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench browser | 92.0% | 36.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| LiveBench long agentic | 53.2% | 18.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 56.3% | 61.3% | Muse Spark Open |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 38.3% | 26.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 49.5% | 38.5% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 73.7% | 53.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 15.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 63.6% | 33.4% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Remote Labor Index | 16.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 41.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,680 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Search | 1229 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 93.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.7% | 73.7% | Claude Fable 5 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 89.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.6% | 89.0% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 55.5% | 43.9% | Claude Fable 5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 85.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 98.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 89.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SimpleBench | 81.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 47.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| EBR-bench | 39.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1507 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1534 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1509 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1357 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1361 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 100.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 87.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 90.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| ProofBench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1516 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1515 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 91.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 88.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 71.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 76.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 70.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1506 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1480 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1498 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1480 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index21
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1296 | 1311 | Muse Spark Open |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1318 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1336 | 1290 | Claude Fable 5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1304 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1319 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1310 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1302 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1328 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 84.7% | 60.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 80.5% | 60.2% | Claude Fable 5 |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 88.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 74.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| IFBench | 63.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.3% | 78.3% | Claude Fable 5 |
| DTBench | 98.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMCA | 61.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 35.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1491 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1502 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1494 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1325 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1498 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1543 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1486 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1504 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1487 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1505 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1498 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1503 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1494 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1504 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1510 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1501 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1482 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1323 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1373 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1337 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1341 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1338 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1496 | Not measured | Only Claude Fable 5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Fable 5 | Muse Spark Open | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Fable 5$0.035Fits in one request
Muse Spark Open$0.0034Fits in one request
Muse Spark Open costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Fable 5$0.650Fits in one request
Muse Spark Open$0.075Fits in one request
Muse Spark Open costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Fable 5$2.50Fits in one request
Muse Spark Open$0.292Fits in one request
Muse Spark Open costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Fable 5 | Meta Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Meta |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 9, 2026 | October 15, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $10.00 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $50.00 | $4.25 |
| Coding index | 82.1 | 62.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.16 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Fable 5 better than Muse Spark Open for coding?
Pick Claude Fable 5 for coding: it scores 82.1 on the Vibe Coding Index against 62.1 for Muse Spark Open. Pick Muse Spark Open when output tokens cost 11.8x less, or when the context window is larger, 1.05M against 1M tokens.
Which is cheaper, Claude Fable 5 or Muse Spark Open?
Claude Fable 5 costs $10.00 per million input tokens and $50.00 per million output tokens; Muse Spark Open costs $1.25 and $4.25. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Fable 5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Fable 5 or Muse Spark Open?
Muse Spark Open, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Fable 5 vs Muse Spark Open comparison based on?
26 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Fable 5's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and Muse Spark Open's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.