Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) vs Muse Wonder (Max)

Which is better for the money: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) by Anthropic or Muse Wonder (Max) by Meta? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-25.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 46.80
Total cost: $1027

MetaMuse Wonder (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 52.40
Total cost: $5787

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Muse Wonder (Max) scores 5.6 points higher (52.4 vs 46.8) but costs 5.6× as much to run the benchmark ($5787 vs $1027; flagship vs premium cost classes). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Muse Wonder (Max) when you need intelligence above 46.8, and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallba… when 46.8 is enough.

Metric	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)	Muse Wonder (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	46.8	52.4	+12.0% Muse Wonder (Max) is 12.0% more intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$1,027.40	$5,786.78	+463.2% Muse Wonder (Max) is 5.6× more expensive
End-to-end time (lower is better)	15.60s	46.63s	+198.9% Muse Wonder (Max) is 198.9% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$4.00 / $20.0
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image, Speech, Video

Muse Wonder (Max) vs Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback): 12.0% more intelligence, 463.2% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 198.9% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
Muse Wonder (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.

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