Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) vs Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)

Which is better for the money: Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) by Anthropic or Muse Spark 1.3 (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 (Max, Default Fallback)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 56.00
Total cost: $7260

MetaMuse Spark 1.3 (Max)Off the frontier

Intelligence: 48.10
Total cost: $2000

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallbac… scores 7.9 points higher (56.0 vs 48.1) but costs 3.6× as much to run the benchmark ($7260 vs $2000; both flagship class). They are not alternatives at one budget: pick Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallbac… when you need intelligence above 48.1, and Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) when 48.1 is enough.

Metric	Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback)	Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	56.0	48.1	−14.1% Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) is 14.1% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$7,259.50	$2,000.35	−72.4% Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) is 72.4% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	385.69s	67.10s	−82.6% Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) is 82.6% faster
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$2.00 / $10.0	$1.25 / $4.25
Input modalities	Text, Image	Text, Image, Video

Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) vs Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback): 14.1% less intelligence, 72.4% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 82.6% faster end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (Xhigh, Default Fallback) scores 56.00 for $4057.
Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Max) scores 51.80 for $1082.

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