Muse Wonder vs o3 Mini
o3 Mini costs 4.5x less per output token than Muse Wonder ($4.40 vs $20.00 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 29 benchmarks have a result for both.
Muse Wonder or o3 Mini: which to pick
Only Muse Wonder has a coding score, 71.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; o3 Mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick o3 Mini for output tokens 4.5x cheaper ($4.40 vs $20.00 per million).
- Shared results
- 29
- Muse Wonder only
- 31
- o3 Mini only
- 42
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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
No call
Only Muse Wonder has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only o3 Mini has a AA Intelligence Index result, 12.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only o3 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 75.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only o3 Mini has a AIME result, 86.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only o3 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 78.7%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Muse Wonder has a Design Arena: websites result, 1362.
Directional only
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 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
o3 Mini
Muse Wonder $0.014, o3 Mini $0.0033 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Muse Wonder 71.9 from 3 benchmarks, o3 Mini not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- General, 30.6 points apart on average over 15 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run): Muse Wonder 50.1% against o3 Mini 12.0%, 38.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Muse Wonder $20.00 against o3 Mini $4.40 per million output tokens, 4.5x apart.
- Context window
- Muse Wonder takes 1.05M tokens, o3 Mini 200K.
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 | Muse Wonder | Bars | o3 Mini | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 3 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 4 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 4 | 0 | ||
| General | 15 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 29 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index30
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 60.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 42.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Lite | Not measured | 32.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1652 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 49.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 62.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 66.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 45.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 26.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 80.4% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 73.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SciCode | 60.3% | 42.8% | Muse Wonder |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 6.8% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 1.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 43.7% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Cybench | Not measured | 22.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1522 | 1378 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1515 | 1364 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1641 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1694 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 7.7% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | Not measured | 12.5 | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 161.8 | 140.2 | Muse Wonder |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index12 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: spreadsheets | 1227 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 56.6% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 36.3% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 50.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 23.8% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 67.1% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 67.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 22.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Vals Science Index | 39.1% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| CUA-bench (Vals AI) | 7.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 31.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $9,432 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 29 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 75.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 27.5% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 77.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 50.1% | 12.0% | Muse Wonder |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 77.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 34.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 3.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 22.8% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 15.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 7.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1506 | 1365 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1513 | 1364 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1506 | 1375 | Muse Wonder |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 86.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.8% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 91.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 76.9% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 18.6% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | Not measured | 0.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| ProofBench | 84.0% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 96.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1486 | 1396 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1514 | 1399 | Muse Wonder |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 78.7% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 71.5% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 45.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 69.4% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 94.8% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 80.2% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 15.3% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1506 | 1339 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1512 | 1330 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1505 | 1328 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1483 | 1313 | Muse Wonder |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1362 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1374 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1377 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1321 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1426 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1371 | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index150
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 64.9% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 70.2% | Not measured | Only Muse Wonder measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 67.1% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 80.7% | 43.0% | Muse Wonder |
| DTBench | 95.2% | 68.8% | Muse Wonder |
| LMCA | 56.8% | 19.0% | Muse Wonder |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 50.0% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 61.7% | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text | 1502 | 1337 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1491 | 1337 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1491 | 1286 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: English | 1507 | 1351 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1492 | 1319 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1537 | 1379 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1303 | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1286 | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1313 | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1523 | 1334 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1321 | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1522 | 1304 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1294 | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1510 | 1320 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1493 | 1343 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1496 | 1313 | Muse Wonder |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1482 | 1283 | Muse Wonder |
| Neither model has a result on the other 21 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Muse Wonder | o3 Mini | 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
o3 Mini costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
o3 Mini costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
o3 Mini 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 | Meta Muse Wonder | OpenAI o3 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 12, 2026 | January 31, 2025 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $4.00 | $1.10 |
| Output $/Mtok | $20.00 | $4.40 |
| Coding index | 71.9 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Muse Wonder better than o3 Mini for coding?
Only Muse Wonder has a coding score, 71.9 on the Vibe Coding Index; o3 Mini has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick o3 Mini for output tokens 4.5x cheaper ($4.40 vs $20.00 per million).
Which is cheaper, Muse Wonder or o3 Mini?
Muse Wonder costs $4.00 per million input tokens and $20.00 per million output tokens; o3 Mini costs $1.10 and $4.40. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Muse Wonder or o3 Mini?
Muse Wonder, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Muse Wonder vs o3 Mini comparison based on?
29 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Muse Wonder's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and o3 Mini's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.