Claude Opus 5.5 vs Muse Spark 1.2

  • Claude Opus 5.5 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1516 against 1482.
  • Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.
  • On the 5 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 5.5 wins 5 and Muse Spark 1.2 wins 0.
LMArena text rating over time
14701478148514931500Aug 6Aug 25Sep 13Oct 2Oct 22
LatestMuse Spark 1.2 1482

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Muse Spark 1.2
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Muse Spark 1.2
The model
LabAnthropicMeta
Released2026-09-222026-08-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$4$1.25
Output, per 1M tokens$20$4.25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1516#2 of 3511482#17 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1807#1 of 1241533#52 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1321#2 of 1461304#17 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1545#1 of 3461505#18 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1518#6 of 3391483#31 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1534#1 of 3491435#56 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1536#2 of 3511490#20 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1539#1 of 3511463#39 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score70.18%#2 of 27—
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal65.15%#1 of 556.06%#46 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—86.60%#14 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works90.29%#5 of 11579.10%#27 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests81.01%#2 of 28—
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools67.85%#1 of 31—
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks65.59%#1 of 31—
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions45.57%#3 of 7632.80%#17 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks72.33%#7 of 28—
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research50.48%#7 of 8543.75%#22 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes49.80%#19 of 10749.35%#24 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—88.28%#20 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—86.13%#22 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal47.14%#3 of 42—

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 5.5 or Muse Spark 1.2?

Claude Opus 5.5 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1516 against 1482. Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5. On the 5 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 5.5 wins 5 and Muse Spark 1.2 wins 0.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Muse Spark 1.2?

Muse Spark 1.2 is cheaper: $1.25 / $4.25 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.

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