Claude Opus 4.8 vs Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder leads Claude Opus 4.8 on coding, 71.9 to 65.0 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Muse Wonder costs 1.3x less per output token ($20.00 vs $25.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 50 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Opus 4.8 or Muse Wonder: which to pick
Pick Muse Wonder for coding: it scores 71.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 65.0 for Claude Opus 4.8, though on 3 benchmarks against 6.
Pick Claude Opus 4.8 for work measured by Design Arena: spreadsheets or Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 50
- Claude Opus 4.8 only
- 80
- Muse Wonder only
- 10
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
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, six public coding benchmarks
Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder scores 71.9 against 65.0.
6 and 3 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 41.8.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a AA Agentic Index result, 41.9.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a GPQA Diamond result, 92.4%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has a MMLU Pro result, 89.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder leads, 1363 against 1258.
Same board, both measured
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Muse Wonder has a Vals Index result, 64.9%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Muse Wonder
Muse Wonder takes 1.05M tokens against 1M.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Muse Wonder
Claude Opus 4.8 $0.018, Muse Wonder $0.014 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Opus 4.8 has the number, $2.17.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Opus 4.8 65.0 from 6 benchmarks, Muse Wonder 71.9 from 3 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Web design, 15.4 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI): Claude Opus 4.8 23.2% against Muse Wonder 49.5%, 35.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Opus 4.8 $25.00 against Muse Wonder $20.00 per million output tokens, 1.3x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Opus 4.8 takes 1M tokens, Muse Wonder 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 Opus 4.8 | Bars | Muse Wonder | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 9 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 2 | 5 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 4 | ||
| Math | 1 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 0 | 4 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 6 | ||
| General | 1 | 15 | ||
| All shared boards | 4 | 46 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index09
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 77.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | 1652 | Muse Wonder |
| AA Coding Index | 74.3 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 87.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 88.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 23.2% | 49.5% | Muse Wonder |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 82.7% | 83.1% | Muse Wonder |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 47.3% | 62.5% | Muse Wonder |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 1.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.9% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 71.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.6% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 26.6% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| SkillsBench (Vals AI) | 59.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 80.4% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| SciCode | 54.4% | 60.3% | Muse Wonder |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 58.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GSO-Bench | 47.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| WeirdML | 82.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1490 | 1522 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1488 | 1515 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1557 | 1641 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1543 | 1694 | Muse Wonder |
| SciCode | 12.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 41.8 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.0 | 161.8 | Muse Wonder |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index25
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 41.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | 1233 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | 1249 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | 1223 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | 1233 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | 1231 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | 1239 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | 1171 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | 1204 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1311 | 1260 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LiveBench research | 81.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 96.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 48.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 53.9% | 56.6% | Muse Wonder |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 30.0% | 36.3% | Muse Wonder |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.8% | 50.5% | Muse Wonder |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 23.8% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 69.4% | 67.1% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.0% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 4.3% | 22.9% | Muse Wonder |
| Vals Science Index | Not measured | 39.1% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Time Horizon Index (Vals AI) | 11.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 7.2% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 94.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 48.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | 8.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 50.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| PostTrainBench | 33.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $5,787 | $9,432 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Search | 1204 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 92.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 89.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | Not measured | 27.5% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 86.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 92.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 48.7% | 50.1% | Muse Wonder |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 91.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ARC-AGI | 92.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SimpleBench | 64.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 52.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 36.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| EBR-bench | 28.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1482 | 1506 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1503 | 1513 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1487 | 1506 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1315 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1337 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| ProofBench | 69.0% | 84.0% | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: math | 1486 | 1486 | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1497 | 1514 | Muse Wonder |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 89.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 83.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 66.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 75.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 69.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 53.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1477 | 1506 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1464 | 1512 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1477 | 1505 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1458 | 1483 | Muse Wonder |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 53.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index06
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1258 | 1363 | Muse Wonder |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1255 | 1380 | Muse Wonder |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1264 | 1378 | Muse Wonder |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1240 | 1312 | Muse Wonder |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1222 | 1428 | Muse Wonder |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1255 | 1371 | Muse Wonder |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1194 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1277 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LiveBench design | 78.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index115
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | Not measured | 64.9% | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 66.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 68.1% | 70.2% | Muse Wonder |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 54.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 70.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| IFBench | 62.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 77.7% | 80.7% | Muse Wonder |
| DTBench | 94.9% | 95.2% | Muse Wonder |
| LMCA | 57.5% | 56.8% | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 87.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Furniture assembly | 42.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1461 | 1502 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1476 | 1491 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1454 | 1491 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Vision | 1294 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1468 | 1507 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1450 | 1492 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1506 | 1537 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: German | 1472 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1442 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1431 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1481 | 1523 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1465 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1474 | 1522 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1459 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1476 | 1510 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1483 | 1493 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1461 | 1496 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1440 | 1482 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1293 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1346 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1303 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1282 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1301 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1475 | Not measured | Only Claude Opus 4.8 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Wonder | 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
Muse Wonder costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Muse Wonder costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Muse Wonder 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 Opus 4.8 | Meta Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Meta |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | May 27, 2026 | October 12, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $5.00 | $4.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $25.00 | $20.00 |
| Coding index | 65.0 | 71.9 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 6 | 3 |
| Cost per solved task | $2.17 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Muse Wonder for coding?
Pick Muse Wonder for coding: it scores 71.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 65.0 for Claude Opus 4.8, though on 3 benchmarks against 6. Pick Claude Opus 4.8 for work measured by Design Arena: spreadsheets or Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Muse Wonder?
Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5.00 per million input tokens and $25.00 per million output tokens; Muse Wonder costs $4.00 and $20.00. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Opus 4.8 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 4.8 or Muse Wonder?
Muse Wonder, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Opus 4.8 vs Muse Wonder comparison based on?
50 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Opus 4.8's coding index rests on 6 independent benchmarks and Muse Wonder's on 3. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.