Head to head · tested 27 Oct 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Muse Wonder: accuracy, speed and price

Similar accuracy; Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs less per question.

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 5.578.8% score · #7$0.0054 per question126 tok/sMetaMuse Wonder78.8% score · #7$0.021 per question175 tok/s

Verdict

Built from the measurements below

  • Accuracy is too close to call: Claude Sonnet 5.5 scored 78.8% and Muse Wonder 78.8% on the same 80 questions, a gap within what chance alone could produce.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 is 3.9× cheaper per question as billed ($0.0054 vs $0.021), reasoning tokens included.
  • Muse Wonder generates text 1.4× faster: 175 tokens per second against 126.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 starts answering sooner: 0.7 s to the first token, against 16.1 s for Muse Wonder.

Which should you choose?

Choose Claude Sonnet 5.5 for the lower cost per correct answer ($0.0069 against $0.027), a quicker first token, shorter outputs (about 456 tokens per question against 1,014) and more hosts to choose from on OpenRouter (5 against 1). Choose Muse Wonder for faster streaming. The widest subject gap is in medicine: Claude Sonnet 5.5 answered 7 of 11 correctly, Muse Wonder 5 of 11. With so few questions per subject, treat this as a lead to test on your own prompts, not a result.

Accuracy gap +0.0 points (z = 0.00). A winner is called only when z is at least 1.96, the usual 95% threshold. Speed, latency and price need a 10% margin.

Head to head

Same questions, same prompt, same API

MeasureClaude Sonnet 5.5Muse WonderEdge
Verification scoreHigher is better78.8%78.8%Too close to call
Cost per questionLower is better$0.0054$0.021Claude Sonnet 5.5
Output speedHigher is better126175Muse Wonder
Time to first tokenLower is better0.7 s16.1 sClaude Sonnet 5.5
End-to-end response timeLower is better6.2 s20.8 sClaude Sonnet 5.5
Tokens per questionLower is better4561,014Claude Sonnet 5.5
Context windowHigher is better1M1MSimilar

Side by side

Bars are scaled to the larger of the two values. The winner on each measure is marked in bold.

Every measure

Claude Sonnet 5.5 first, Muse Wonder second

Verification scorehigher is better
Claude Sonnet 5.578.8%
Muse Wonder78.8%
Cost per questionlower is better
Claude Sonnet 5.5$0.0054
Muse Wonder$0.021
Output speedhigher is better
Claude Sonnet 5.5126
Muse Wonder175
Time to first tokenlower is better
Claude Sonnet 5.50.7 s
Muse Wonder16.1 s
End-to-end response timelower is better
Claude Sonnet 5.56.2 s
Muse Wonder20.8 s
Tokens per questionlower is better
Claude Sonnet 5.5456
Muse Wonder1,014
Context windowhigher is better
Claude Sonnet 5.51M
Muse Wonder1M

Score vs. cost per question

Both models in color, every other model in grey

Most attractive quadrant0255075100$0.00001$0.0001$0.001$0.01$0.10Cost per question (USD, log) →Verification score (%) →Qwen3.8 2.4T A95BCommand AReka Flash 3Gemma 4 26B A4BGemma 4 31BQwen3.5 397B A17BHermes 4 405BMuse WonderGrok 4.7o3gpt-oss-20bMinistral 3 3B 2512Nova Micro 1.0Phi 4Granite 4.2 8BHy3GLM 5.3 FlashSolar Pro 4Trinity Large ThinkingMiniMax M3Mistral Large 4Claude Opus 5.5GPT-6.1 SolGemini 4 ArgonGPT-5.4GPT-6 Lunagpt-oss-120bLlama 4 Maverick

Specifications and pricing

From OpenRouter's catalogue, plus the leaderboard's test dates

SpecificationClaude Sonnet 5.5Muse Wonder
CreatorAnthropicMeta
Released28 Sept 202612 Oct 2026
Weights——
ReasoningYesYes
Inputtext, image, filetext, image, video, file, audio
Outputtexttext
Context window1M tokens1M tokens
Knowledge cutoff——
List price in / out per 1M$2 / $10$4 / $20
Blended price per 1M (3:1)$4.00$8.00
Cheapest hostGoogle · $2 / $10Meta · $4 / $20
Hosts on OpenRouter51
Last tested25 Oct 202627 Oct 2026

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Muse Wonder: frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Muse Wonder?
On accuracy they are statistically tied: Claude Sonnet 5.5 scored 78.8% and Muse Wonder 78.8% on the same 80 questions from open datasets. Similar accuracy; Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs less per question.
Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is cheaper: $0.0054 per question as billed, against $0.021. List prices: Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2 in / $10 out, Muse Wonder $4 in / $20 out per million tokens.
Which is faster, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?
Muse Wonder is faster at 175 output tokens per second, against 126. Time to first token: 0.7 s for Claude Sonnet 5.5, 16.1 s for Muse Wonder.
Which has the larger context window, Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Muse Wonder?
Both accept about the same amount of context: 1M and 1M tokens.