Is Muse Wonder a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats Muse Wonder on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

12 undominated of 143 · Oct 21, 2026

As of Oct 21, 2026, Muse Wonder is dominated for Balanced on LMArena. Gemini 4 Argon scores 29.3 higher at the same price, with a covering envelope. 12 of 143 rated, priced standard models are undominated. Gemini 4 Argon: Price under confirmation since Oct 21, 2026.

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Current model

Muse Wonder

Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

Gemini 4 Argon scores 29.3 points higher than Muse Wonder at the same price, $8.00 per million tokens for both.

Muse Wonder

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1503.9

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$8.00/M

Gemini 4 Argon

LMArena Elo · higher is better

Scale starts at 1040 Elo

1533.2

Effective $/M · Balanced · lower is better

$8.00/M

Price under confirmation since Oct 21, 2026

Muse Wonder takes text, image, video, file, audio, returns up to 943,718 tokens from a 1,048,576-token context, and is listed by 1 seller.

Compared against 143 rated, priced models on this lens: 1 model dominates it and gives up nothing, 1 more dominates it but gives something up. Muse Wonder scores 1503.9 at $8.00 per million tokens for this mix.

Envelope-safe replacements

Each row scores at least as high, costs no more, and covers this model’s context, output, modalities, tools, and reasoning. A cheaper narrower model is not listed here.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou save
Gemini 4 Argon1533.2 +29.3$8.00/MPrice under confirmation since Oct 21, 20260%

Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

ModelLMArenaEffective $/MYou give up
Claude Opus 5.51515.5$8.00/Mcontext, max output, video, audio
Gemini 4 Argon1533.2 · $8.00/MMuse Wonder1503.9 · $8.00/MLMArena EloEffective $/M · Balanced
143 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

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