Claude Opus 4.6 vs Muse Spark 1.3

  • Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1491.
  • Muse Spark 1.3 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
  • On the 1 Vals AI benchmark both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0 and Muse Spark 1.3 wins 1.
LMArena text rating over time
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LatestClaude Opus 4.6 1502

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Opus 4.6
  • Muse Spark 1.3
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Muse Spark 1.3
The model
LabAnthropicMeta
Released2026-02-042026-09-02
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$5$1.25
Output, per 1M tokens$25$4.25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1502#6 of 3511491#10 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1546#45 of 1241657#16 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1316#6 of 1461308#12 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1534#3 of 3461511#13 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1518#7 of 3391502#13 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1505#4 of 3491462#23 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1524#5 of 3511504#13 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1521#3 of 3511479#21 of 351
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal—10.61%#41 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects78.20%#30 of 85—
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works53.50%#57 of 11582.86%#21 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination84.68%#38 of 143—
Vals AI, finance
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions—35.97%#13 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research—40.87%#29 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes48.24%#30 of 107—
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias95.41%#12 of 92—
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not89.65%#29 of 138—
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering89.11%#15 of 138—
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad95.63%#9 of 96—
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text83.87%#29 of 93—
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal—4.29%#25 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Muse Spark 1.3?

Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1491. Muse Spark 1.3 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6. On the 1 Vals AI benchmark both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0 and Muse Spark 1.3 wins 1.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Muse Spark 1.3?

Muse Spark 1.3 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.

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