Claude Opus 5.5 vs Muse Spark 1.2: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Claude Opus 5.5 is developed by Anthropic, while Muse Spark 1.2 comes from Meta. Muse Spark 1.2 was released in August 2026, and Claude Opus 5.5 followed a month later in September 2026.
We have 31 benchmark results for Claude Opus 5.5 and 3 benchmark results for Muse Spark 1.2, but they overlap on a single test: DeepSWE 1.1, where Claude Opus 5.5 scores 74.2% against 59.0%.
Muse Spark 1.2 is the cheaper API at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, roughly 3 times cheaper than Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 and $20. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Spark 1.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Anthropic | Meta |
| Release Date | September 22, 2026 | August 5, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $4.00 | $1.25 |
| Output Price / 1M | $20.00 | $4.25 |
| Average Score | 71.1% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 74.2% | 59.0% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Claude Opus 5.5 — 0.7, Muse Spark 1.2 — 0.7.
Muse Spark 1.2 is 4.4x cheaper: input $1.25/1M vs $4.00/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Claude Opus 5.5 is newer: released 9/22/2026 vs 8/5/2026.
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