# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Muse Spark 1.3

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Muse Spark 1.3 in 3 of 8 shared categories: Coding, Coding › Agentic, and Long context.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Muse Spark 1.3: $2.0000000000000004 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Muse Spark 1.3: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Muse Spark 1.3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in General LLM at #9 against #21.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Muse Spark 1.3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Reasoning at #8 against #10.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Muse Spark 1.3 in Coding at #12 against #18.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Muse Spark 1.3 in Coding › Agentic at #12 against #18.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Muse Spark 1.3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #11 against #35.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Muse Spark 1.3 in Long context at #10 against #15.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Muse Spark 1.3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Vision at #8 against #13.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Muse Spark 1.3 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Factuality at #12 against #24.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Muse Spark 1.3 is state of the art on best per dollar in Coding › Web dev (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).