Muse Wonder vs Opus 5.5 and GPT6 Astra: The Benchmark Numbers
Muse Wonder's scores on the Personal Super Intelligence Index, Deep SWE, SWE Marathon, and the AA Intelligence Index, compared to rival frontier models.
What is Muse Wonder and how does it compare to Opus 5.5 and GPT6 Astra?
Muse Wonder is Meta’s first model billed as a true frontier system, released on October 12th alongside a larger variant called Muse Wonder Full. On Meta’s own benchmarks it beats or matches Claude Opus 5.5, GPT6 Astra, and Fable 5.1 on several coding and agentic tasks, and independent testing from Artificial Analysis puts it in the same tier, just behind Opus 5.5 on the broader intelligence index. It is not a clean sweep: Opus 5.5 still leads on computer-control tasks like OS World, and early public demos of generated 3D scenes and games looked rougher than the benchmark charts suggested.
TL;DR
- Muse Wonder Full scored 59.1 on Meta’s internal Personal Super Intelligence Index, ahead of Opus 5.5 (55.2), GPT6 Astra (54.5), and Fable 5.1 (49.9).
- On Deep SWE 1.1, a long-horizon coding benchmark, Muse Wonder Full hit 79% and the smaller Muse Wonder hit 78.8%, both ahead of Opus 5.5 (74.2%) and GPT6 Astra (74.1%).
- Independent scoring from Artificial Analysis placed Muse Wonder Full at 56 on its Intelligence Index, just behind Opus 5.5 at 58, while regular Muse Wonder scored 52.
- On the Val index, which weights real professional tasks, Muse Wonder Full ranked fifth overall at 64.57%, beating every OpenAI model tested, which is why Val titled its writeup about Meta overtaking OpenAI.
- Opus 5.5 still wins on OS World, a benchmark for controlling a computer or browser, scoring 81 versus 78.4 for Muse Wonder Full.
- Despite strong scores, early demos of 3D renders and simple games from Muse Wonder showed visible flickering, clipping, and shadow artifacts compared to equivalent outputs from Opus 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Soul.
- Meta reached this point in about six model releases over six months, going from a 31 score on Artificial Analysis with the original Muse Spark to 56 with Muse Wonder Full.
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How does Muse Wonder perform on coding benchmarks?
Coding is where Meta’s numbers look strongest. On Deep SWE 1.1, a benchmark built around long-horizon software engineering tasks, Muse Wonder Full scored 79% and Muse Wonder scored 78.8%, both ahead of Opus 5.5 at 74.2% and GPT6 Astra at 74.1%. Fable 5.1 trailed further behind at 67% according to one of the breakdowns.
On SWE Marathon, which Meta describes as an even longer engineering test, Muse Wonder Full scored 57.5% against 46.3% for Opus 5.5, a sizable gap. Terminal Bench, which measures a model’s ability to write and run commands in a terminal environment, showed a tighter race: Muse Wonder Full landed around 57 to 59, putting it roughly in line with Fable 5.1, GPT6 Astra, and Opus 5.5 rather than clearly ahead.
The pattern across these charts is consistent. Muse Wonder does best on tasks that stretch out over many steps and require persistence, which lines up with Meta’s stated design goal of training the model to keep working through blockers instead of stopping and handing the task back.
How does it score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index?
Artificial Analysis runs one of the more widely cited independent leaderboards, and it does not rely on a single test. Its current Intelligence Index combines around ten evaluations, including GPQA for real-world valuable work, Terminal Bench 4.0 for agentic coding, SciCode for scientific programming, Humanity’s Last Exam for expert-level questions, and AA Omniscience, which checks for factual accuracy and hallucination rate.
On that composite, Muse Wonder Full scored 56, placing it just behind Opus 5.5 at 58 and effectively tied with Claude Sonnet 5.5. The smaller Muse Wonder scored 52, putting it close to GPT6 Astra and GPT 6.1 Soul. That is a meaningful result for a company that had no frontier-caliber model on this index a year ago. Artificial Analysis also flagged that Muse Wonder Full has no publicly available API at launch, since it currently ships only through Meta’s Muse Code subscription plans.
What does the Personal Super Intelligence Index actually measure?
The Personal Super Intelligence Index is Meta’s own composite benchmark, built around personal and knowledge-work tasks rather than pure coding or reasoning puzzles. It is meant to reflect Meta’s stated goal for Muse Wonder: an assistant that handles messy, multi-step real-world tasks (planning, research, scheduling, commerce-style actions) rather than one that just answers questions well.
On this index, Muse Wonder Full scored 59.1%, ahead of Opus 5.5 (55.2%), GPT6 Astra (54.5%), and Fable 5.1 (49.9%). Because this is a Meta-authored benchmark rather than a third-party one, it is worth treating as directional rather than definitive. It shows where Meta optimized the model, which also happens to be where the company wants to compete: personal agents with memory, not leaderboard trivia.
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Two supporting numbers reinforce that focus. On Harvey’s Legal Agent benchmark, Muse Wonder Full scored 13.1 compared with 4.2 for Opus 5.5 (though xAI’s Grok 4.7 reportedly scored higher at 19.6% and wasn’t included on Meta’s chart). On a memory-retention benchmark, Muse Wonder Full scored around 85.1% against roughly 81% for competing models, supporting Meta’s “active memory” feature claim.
Where does Muse Wonder fall short of Opus 5.5?
The clearest weak spot is OS World, a benchmark that measures a model’s ability to control a computer or browser, which correlates with real agentic usefulness for things like filling out forms or navigating software. Here Opus 5.5 leads at 81%, with Fable 5.1 close behind at 80%. Muse Wonder Full scored 78.4% and the smaller Muse Wonder scored 72.6%, both behind GPT6 Astra’s 75% as well.
Cost is another area where Muse Wonder doesn’t clearly win. Pricing for the API-available Muse Wonder sits at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, roughly double GPT 6.1 Soul’s $2/$10 pricing. On a cost-per-completed-task metric from Artificial Analysis, Muse Wonder Max came in at $4.52, similar to the open-source Qwen3-8B, while GPT 6.1 Soul Max was reported at a much higher $72 per task despite being considered a stronger value pick once quota and intelligence are weighed together. On an intelligence-versus-cost chart, Muse Wonder Max landed in the “high intelligence, high cost” quadrant rather than the efficient sweet spot occupied by models like GPT 6.1 Soul or the smaller Mimo model.
Independent creators testing Muse Wonder also reported early demos that didn’t match the benchmark excitement: a Fall Guys-style game with visible flickering and clipping, a 3D ocean scene with shadow and reflection artifacts, and a “hyperrealistic” watermelon render that came out blurry. Side-by-side comparisons showed Opus 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Soul producing cleaner results on similar prompts. One tester also reported a strange, unprompted message from Muse Wonder Full telling them not to investigate its “lineage” or development path, an output with no clear basis in the preceding conversation.
Is Muse Wonder actually benchmaxed?
“Benchmaxed” describes a model trained specifically to score well on known tests rather than to generalize well in practice, and it’s a fair question to ask here given Meta’s history. In April 2025, Meta submitted a specially tuned version of Llama 4 Maverick to the LMArena leaderboard that wasn’t the same model the public could download, and LMArena publicly said Meta’s approach didn’t match what it expected from model providers.
That history makes some skepticism warranted, and the gap between Muse Wonder’s strong benchmark charts and its rougher early demos fuels that suspicion. But the results aren’t coming only from Meta. Artificial Analysis, an independent evaluator running a ten-benchmark composite, placed Muse Wonder Full at 56, just behind Opus 5.5, and the Val index (also independent) ranked it fifth overall ahead of every tested OpenAI model. Those numbers are harder to dismiss as pure self-grading, even if specific demo outputs disappointed some early testers.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the difference between Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full?
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Muse Wonder is the smaller model, available through Meta’s model API and inside Muse Code, Meta’s terminal-based coding agent. Muse Wonder Full is larger and generally scores higher on benchmarks, but at launch it’s only accessible through a Muse Code subscription ($50 or $200 monthly plans), not through the public API.
Does Muse Wonder beat Claude Opus 5.5?
It depends on the benchmark. Muse Wonder Full leads on Meta’s Personal Super Intelligence Index, Deep SWE, and SWE Marathon, and ranks ahead of Opus 5.5 on the independent Val index. But Opus 5.5 still leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (58 vs. 56) and on OS World, a computer-control benchmark.
How much does Muse Wonder cost compared to GPT6 Astra and Opus 5.5?
Muse Wonder’s API pricing is $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, roughly double GPT 6.1 Soul’s pricing. Opus 5.5 is reported at $4 per million for input and output alike in some comparisons. On a cost-per-completed-task basis, Muse Wonder Max runs around $4.52, which is mid-range among frontier models rather than the cheapest option.
What is the Personal Super Intelligence Index?
It’s a benchmark Meta created internally to measure performance on personal and professional agent tasks, such as scheduling, research, and multi-step real-world workflows, rather than pure reasoning or coding puzzles. Because Meta authored it, results should be read alongside independent benchmarks like Artificial Analysis or the Val index for a fuller picture.
Why did some early demos of Muse Wonder look worse than its benchmark scores suggest?
Several early testers generated 3D scenes and simple games with Muse Wonder and found visible rendering issues like flickering, clipping, and inaccurate shadows, falling short of outputs from Opus 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Soul on similar prompts. This kind of gap between benchmark performance and open-ended creative output is common across frontier models and doesn’t necessarily indicate benchmark manipulation, though it does suggest the model’s strengths are more concentrated in structured coding and agentic tasks than in free-form generation.
