Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) vs Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh)

Which is better for the money: Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) by Anthropic or Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 49.60
Total cost: $11161

MetaMuse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 39.60
Total cost: $1385

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) scores 10.0 points higher (49.6 vs 39.6) but costs 8.1× as much to run the benchmark ($11161 vs $1385; flagship vs premium cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) when you need intelligence above 39.6, and Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) when 39.6 is enough.

Metric	Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback)	Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	49.6	39.6	−20.2% Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) is 20.2% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$11,160.86	$1,385.40	−87.6% Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) is 87.6% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	85.62s	20.60s	−75.9% Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) is 75.9% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$10.0 / $50.0	$1.25 / $4.25
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image, Speech, Video

Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) vs Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback): 20.2% less intelligence, 87.6% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 75.9% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Fable 5 (Max, Opus 4.8 Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) scores 57.60 for $8708.
Muse Spark 1.2 (Xhigh) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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