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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Muse Wonder

Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 60 results on 4 sources that measured both models.

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.5 Released 28 Sep 2026 · $2.00 in · $10.00 out
MetaMuse Wonder Released 12 Oct 2026 · $4.00 in · $20.00 out
Claude Sonnet 5.5 wins 2116 too close to callMuse Wonder wins 23

Of the 60 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.

Results as of 13 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-13-2e2420e3c5cc). See also Anthropic vs Meta, every model from both labs.

Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder? The short answer

Pick Muse Wonder if quality matters most: it scores higher (Spring Prompt overall 70 against 63). Pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 if cost matters more: it costs 2.1 times less per product listing on CatalogBench.

  • Spring Prompt overall: Claude Sonnet 5.5 63, Muse Wonder 70 (out of 100; how the score works).
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper to run: $0.017 against $0.036 per product listing on CatalogBench (2.1 times less).
  • Muse Wonder is newer: released 12 Oct 2026, against 28 Sep 2026 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.
  • On our own benchmarks, on the results both models have: Claude Sonnet 5.5 does better for marketing planning; Muse Wonder for product listings.

Head to head

63
Spring Prompt overall
70
$4.00
Price per million tokens, blendedlower is better
$8.00
1,000,000
Context window, tokens
1,048,576

Every fact side by side

Claude Sonnet 5.5Muse Wonder
Price per million tokens$2.00 in · $10.00 out$4.00 in · $20.00 out
Blended (3 in : 1 out)$4.00$8.00
Cheapest host, blended$4.00 (Amazon Bedrock)–
Cost per product listing (CatalogBench)$0.017$0.036
Cached input, per million$0.20 cached input$0.20 cached input
Intelligence Index56.0–
Spring Prompt overall6370
Output speed, tokens a second134–
Context window1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Released28 Sep 202612 Oct 2026 (newer)
WeightsClosedClosed
Developer based inthe USthe US

Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.

Which is better for what

Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.

Product listingsTurning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live 11 of 21 4 of 21
Decks from an analysisTurning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is 5 of 20 8 of 20
User surveysPlanning a user survey and reading its results without being misled not measured 2 of 9
Marketing planningPlanning a year of ad spend without overspending 4 of 20 10 of 20
Agents and tool useMulti-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls 1 of 164 not measured
Professional workReal tasks from banking, consulting and law, business documents and freelance projects 1 of 51 not measured
Reasoning and knowledgeHard questions across science, maths and general knowledge 2 of 198 not measured
WritingWhat people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality 32 of 188 not measured
Sticking to the factsSummarising without inventing things, and factual answers 42 of 152 not measured
Speed under pressureGood decisions against a real clock (fast chess) 21 of 24 12 of 24

Their slides, side by side

The same brief for both: Manchester store investment review for Hearthside Coffee, an invented company. First slide of each deck from DeckBench.

First slide of Claude Sonnet 5.5's deck for Hearthside Coffee
Claude Sonnet 5.5 · deck rating 1,362 · presentable as it is
First slide of Muse Wonder's deck for Hearthside Coffee
Muse Wonder · deck rating 1,273 · needs work

Every slide, side by side →

From our research

Every shared result

Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.

MeasureClaude Sonnet 5.5Muse Wonder
BulletBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Cost per game · Blitz 3+2US dollars, lower is better 9 · 12 of 14 measured $0.12 $0.27
Games lost on time · Blitz 3+2% of games, lower is better 7 · 14 of 14 measured 37.5% 75.0%
Invalid moves · Blitz 3+2% of moves, lower is better 1 · 1 of 14 measured 0.0% 0.0%
CatalogBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Cost per productUS dollars, lower is better 13 · 17 of 21 measured $0.0172 $0.0361
Reliably publish-ready% of products, higher is better 13 · 3 of 21 measured 32.1% 66.1%
Reliably publish-ready · sales brief% of products, higher is better 10 · 4 of 21 measured 10.7% 51.8%
DeckBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Cost per deckUS dollars, lower is better 12 · 14 of 20 measured $0.15 $0.18
Deck ratingrating, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other deck was; the win rate counts wins against whichever decks a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 5 · 8 of 20 measured 1,362 1,273
Accurate decks% of tasks, higher is better 6 · 1 of 20 measured 66.7% 100.0%
ROASBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results
Overall scorescore out of 100, higher is better 4 · 10 of 20 measured 52.0 38.9
Audience scorescore out of 100, higher is better 9 · 12 of 20 measured 61.8 54.7
Business scorescore out of 100, higher is better 2 · 10 of 20 measured 57.2 34.5
Show all 60 results (48 more)
MeasureClaude Sonnet 5.5Muse Wonder
BulletBench measured by Spring Prompt · 2 results
Ladder Elo · Blitz 3+2ladder Elo, higher is better 6 · 13 of 14 measured 557 358
Median move time · Blitz 3+2milliseconds, lower is better 14 · 12 of 14 measured 8.1 s 7.1 s
CatalogBench measured by Spring Prompt · 27 results
Channel compliance% of products, higher is better 14 · 14 of 21 measured 99.4% 99.4%
Channel rules broken% of products, lower is better 17 · 11 of 21 measured 1.2% 0.6%
Channel rules broken · sales brief% of products, lower is better 10 · 1 of 21 measured 0.6% 0.0%
Claims to check% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Claims to check · sales brief% of products, lower is better 12 · 1 of 21 measured 0.6% 0.0%
Conflicts caught% of conflicts, higher is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured 100.0% 100.0%
Content quality% of checks, higher is better 14 · 3 of 21 measured 96.5% 98.3%
Content quality · sales brief% of checks, higher is better 10 · 3 of 21 measured 97.3% 98.5%
Decision accuracy% of decisions, higher is better 14 · 3 of 21 measured 95.7% 98.3%
Failed outputs% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Failed outputs · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Field accuracy% of missing fields, higher is better 18 · 1 of 21 measured 91.5% 96.1%
Invented values% of filled values, lower is better 7 · 11 of 21 measured 0.8% 1.4%
Missing UK information% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Missing UK information · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Not findable% of products, lower is better 1 · 4 of 21 measured 1.2% 3.6%
Not findable · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 8 of 21 measured 0.6% 3.6%
Publish-ready listings% of products, higher is better 15 · 3 of 21 measured 46.4% 75.0%
Publish-ready listings · sales brief% of products, higher is better 11 · 5 of 21 measured 27.4% 67.3%
Unsupported claimsclaims per product, lower is better 15 · 4 of 21 measured 1.08 0.21
Unsupported claims% of products, lower is better 17 · 4 of 21 measured 39.3% 7.1%
Unsupported claims · sales briefclaims per product, lower is better 11 · 5 of 21 measured 1.71 0.36
Unsupported claims · sales brief% of products, lower is better 10 · 5 of 21 measured 59.5% 17.9%
Wrong attributes% of products, lower is better 13 · 2 of 21 measured 19.1% 13.1%
Wrong attributes · sales brief% of products, lower is better 17 · 4 of 21 measured 20.8% 14.3%
Wrong category or variant% of products, lower is better 13 · 10 of 21 measured 3.0% 2.4%
Wrong category or variant · sales brief% of products, lower is better 14 · 10 of 21 measured 3.0% 2.4%
DeckBench measured by Spring Prompt · 13 results
Caveat dropped% of tasks, lower is better 11 · 1 of 20 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Clean layout% of tasks, higher is better 1 · 18 of 20 measured 100.0% 16.7%
Design quality% of the maximum, higher is better 4 · 9 of 20 measured 78.5% 67.1%
Draft figure quoted% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 20 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Findings missing% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 20 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Head-to-head win rate% of comparisons, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other deck was; the win rate counts wins against whichever decks a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 4 · 10 of 20 measured 79.6% 63.2%
Layout defects% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 18 of 20 measured 0.0% 83.3%
Misleading metric used% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 20 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Presentable decks% of tasks, higher is better 2 · 10 of 20 measured 50.0% 16.7%
Recommendation late or wrong% of tasks, lower is better 8 · 1 of 20 measured 16.7% 0.0%
Slides needing work% of tasks, lower is better 7 · 15 of 20 measured 33.3% 66.7%
Unsupported claims% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 20 measured 0.0% 0.0%
Unsupported numbers% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 20 measured 0.0% 0.0%
ROASBench measured by Spring Prompt · 6 results
Consistency scorescore out of 100, higher is better 9 · 12 of 20 measured 28.5 25.9
Contribution profitsimulated US dollars, higher is better 8 · 11 of 20 measured $571,203 $489,176
Cost of a runUS dollars, lower is better 12 · 15 of 20 measured $0.42 $0.57
Months over budgetmonths of 12, lower is better 1 · 1 of 20 measured 0 0
Planning scorescore out of 100, higher is better 2 · 4 of 20 measured 55.1 55.0
Return on ad spendprofit per $1 spent, higher is better 1 · 11 of 20 measured $0.70 $0.41

Quick answers

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Muse Wonder?

Pick Muse Wonder if quality matters most: it scores higher (Spring Prompt overall 70 against 63). Pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 if cost matters more: it costs 2.1 times less per product listing on CatalogBench.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper to run: $0.017 against $0.036 per product listing on CatalogBench (2.1 times less).

Which is better for product listings, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?

Muse Wonder ranks 4 of 21 models on sale for turning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live, against 11 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.

Which is better for decks from an analysis, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks 5 of 20 models on sale for turning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is, against 8 for Muse Wonder.

Which is better for marketing planning, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?

Claude Sonnet 5.5 ranks 4 of 20 models on sale for planning a year of ad spend without overspending, against 10 for Muse Wonder.

Which is better for speed under pressure, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?

Muse Wonder ranks 12 of 24 models on sale for good decisions against a real clock (fast chess), against 21 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?

Muse Wonder: 1,048,576 tokens, against 1,000,000 for Claude Sonnet 5.5.

Run Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Muse Wonder on your own prompt

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