AI model comparison
Muse Wonder vs Claude Sonnet 4.5
Pricing, context window, benchmarks, and features compared side by side. Or skip the guesswork and send one prompt to both.
Muse Wonder is a frontier reasoning model from Meta, designed for complex personal and professional agentic tasks.
- Input / 1M
- $4
- Output / 1M
- $20
- Context
- 1.05M
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is Anthropic’s most advanced Sonnet model to date, optimized for real-world agents and coding workflows.
- Input / 1M
- $3
- Output / 1M
- $15
- Context
- 1M
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At a glance
Quick verdict
How the two models stack up on the things people ask about most.
Lower price
Claude Sonnet 4.5
1.3x cheaper for a typical chat
Higher intelligence score
Tie
Not enough benchmark data
Larger context window
Muse Wonder
1.05M vs 1M tokens
Newer release
Muse Wonder
Released October 12, 2026
Benchmarks
Benchmark scores
Independent scores from Artificial Analysis. Higher is better.
Intelligence index
Claude Sonnet 4.520.7Coding index
Claude Sonnet 4.552.1Agentic index
Claude Sonnet 4.515.8Pricing
Muse Wonder vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 API pricing
Per-token API rates. Cheaper option highlighted.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input tokensPer 1M tokens | $4 | $3 |
| Output tokensPer 1M tokens | $20 | $15 |
| Cached input (read)Per 1M tokens | $0.20 | $0.30 |
| Cache writePer 1M tokens | Not available | $3.75 |
| Long-context pricingPer 1M tokens, for very long prompts | Same rate at any length | $6 in / $22.50 out above 200K |
| Web searchPer request | $0.0025 | $0.01 |
What it costs in practice
Estimated cost per 1,000 requests at standard rates. Coding and long-document figures also show the cost when the input is already cached.
Chat message
2K in, 500 out
Claude Sonnet 4.5$13.50Coding task
30K in, 4K out
Claude Sonnet 4.5$150$69 cachedLong document summary
150K in, 2K out
Claude Sonnet 4.5$480$75 cachedSpecs
Context window and capabilities
How much each model can read, how much it can write, and what it accepts as input.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1.05M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Max output | 944K tokens | 64K tokens |
| Input types | Audio, File, Image, Text, Video | File, Image, Text |
| Output types | Text | Text |
| Reasoning effort levels | Max, Extra high, High, Medium, Low, Minimal | Not available |
| Default reasoning effort | Medium | Not available |
| Release date | October 12, 2026 | September 29, 2025 |
Features
Supported features
API features available for each model.
| Metric | Claude Sonnet 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tool calling | Supported | Supported |
| Structured outputs | Supported | Supported |
| JSON mode | Supported | Supported |
| Reasoning | Supported | Supported |
| Temperature | Supported | Supported |
| Stop sequences | Not supported | Supported |
| Deterministic seed | Not supported | Not supported |
| Verbosity control | Not supported | Not supported |
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Our take
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is 1.3x cheaper for a typical chat. Muse Wonder has the larger context window (1.05M vs 1M tokens). The right pick depends on your workload, so the quickest way to settle it is to send the same prompt to both and compare.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Is Muse Wonder or Claude Sonnet 4.5 cheaper?
Claude Sonnet 4.5 is cheaper for a typical chat (2K input tokens and 500 output tokens). Claude Sonnet 4.5 costs $3 per 1M input tokens and $15 per 1M output tokens, while Muse Wonder costs $4 per 1M input tokens and $20 per 1M output tokens.
Which has a bigger context window, Muse Wonder or Claude Sonnet 4.5?
Muse Wonder supports up to 1.05M tokens of context, compared with 1M for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
Can I use Muse Wonder and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at the same time?
Yes. Shortcut Chat sends one prompt to multiple models at once, so you can see Muse Wonder and Claude Sonnet 4.5 answer side by side and keep the better response.
Why choose? Ask both.
Send one prompt to Muse Wonder and Claude Sonnet 4.5 at the same time. Compare the answers side by side and keep the best one.