Muse Wonder vs Kimi K3

  • Muse Wonder rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1501 against 1475.
  • Kimi K3 is cheaper: $0.24 / $11 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Muse Wonder.
  • On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Wonder wins 9 and Kimi K3 wins 1 (Muse Wonder: Vals Index, Terminal-Bench 4.0, Code Migration).
LMArena text rating over time
14601468147514831490Jul 16Aug 9Sep 3Sep 27Oct 22
LatestKimi K3 1475

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Muse Wonder
  • Kimi K3
BenchmarkMuse WonderKimi K3
The model
LabMetaMoonshot AI
Released2026-10-122026-07-16
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$4$0.24
Output, per 1M tokens$20$10.80
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1501#7 of 3511475#25 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1651#18 of 1241655#17 of 124
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1518#11 of 3461508#16 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1484#30 of 3391493#20 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1493#7 of 3491456#28 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1505#12 of 3511495#17 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1493#10 of 3511485#16 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score64.88%#6 of 2752.95%#20 of 27
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal49.49%#10 of 5517.17%#34 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—93.40%#8 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works83.09%#20 of 11584.97%#16 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests72.36%#5 of 2828.59%#23 of 28
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—87.19%#18 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools65.55%#6 of 3160.01%#21 of 31
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks61.23%#6 of 3157.95%#11 of 31
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions36.27%#12 of 7633.37%#15 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks75.26%#3 of 2871.72%#10 of 28
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research50.48%#6 of 8546.15%#16 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes—49.36%#23 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—92.93%#12 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—87.97%#22 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—88.15%#11 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal22.86%#10 of 421.43%#38 of 42

Add models in the compare tool. Vals Index: Muse Wonder 64.88%, Kimi K3 52.95%.

Questions

Which is better, Muse Wonder or Kimi K3?

Muse Wonder rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1501 against 1475. Kimi K3 is cheaper: $0.24 / $11 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Muse Wonder. On the 10 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Muse Wonder wins 9 and Kimi K3 wins 1 (Muse Wonder: Vals Index, Terminal-Bench 4.0, Code Migration).

Which is cheaper, Muse Wonder or Kimi K3?

Kimi K3 is cheaper: $0.24 / $11 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Muse Wonder.

Sources

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