Claude Opus 4.8vsMuse Spark 1.1
Claude Opus 4.8 leads the overall Podium Score by 6.1 points (76.0 vs 69.9).Category wins: Claude Opus 4.8 2 — 1 Muse Spark 1.1.Muse Spark 1.1 is the cheaper pick ($4.25/M vs $15/M per 1M output tokens). Muse Spark 1.1 is faster (208 t/s vs 50 t/s).
Key VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis
Claude Opus 4.8 is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 76.0 (vs 69.9 for Muse Spark 1.1). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Claude Opus 4.8 outperforms in 2 of 7 benchmark categories.
Coding & Engineering
Muse Spark 1.1 (64.4)
Inference Speed
Muse Spark 1.1 (208 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Muse Spark 1.1 ($4.25/M/M)
| Metric | Claude Opus 4.8 | Muse Spark 1.1 |
|---|---|---|
| Podium Score | 76.0 ▲ | 69.9 |
| Arena Elo | 1484 | 1490 ▲ |
| Intelligence Index | 55.7 ▲ | 51.0 |
| Coding | 58.0 | 64.4 ▲ |
| Math | 58.7 | — |
| Reasoning | 82.8 ▲ | 62.7 |
| Agentic | 74.9 | — |
| Knowledge | 28.8 ▲ | 28.1 |
| Multimodal | 89.6 | — |
| Long-context | 99.2 | 99.2 |
| Output speed | 50 t/s | 208 t/s ▲ |
| Output price | $15/M | $4.25/M ▲ |
| Context window | 1000K | 1000K |
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Mythos · Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Fable 5 · Claude Opus 4.8 vs Kimi K3 · Claude Opus 4.8 vs Claude Opus 5