Muse Wonder
Ranked 35 of 72 language models by recommenders
People recommend it for near-frontier performance and strong early results, especially for data analytics. Critics say it trails top frontier models and burns usage quotas quickly.
People recommend it for near-frontier performance and strong early results, especially for data analytics. Critics say it trails top frontier models and burns usage quotas quickly.
40 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 22
- criticize it
- 18
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 22 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Near top frontier model performance
“Awesome model. Tested it for data analytics and found it's in the class of Opus 5.5 in terms of performance and cost.”
Comment from 14 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “2nd place model on aa according to them, losing only to opus 5.5 is really really not bad”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “for certain tasks, this is the best model in the world”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” - Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed”
Positive first impressions and results
“I find it really compelling and with this new incredibly beefy model it will be even better.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “by all accounts I've seen it's actually a good model”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed” - Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Behind top frontier models
“while Muse is an impressive jump from behind it's still not quite at the frontier either IMO”
Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed” “Well, my first impression is that it's still a step below Astra/Opus5.5/Fable here.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “that model does not trade blows with the best frontier models by a longshot”
Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5” - Comment from 23 Oct 2026 in “Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed”
- Comment from 28 Oct 2026 in “Gemini 4 Carbon”
- Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder”
Uses up quotas quickly
“Two somewhat small prompts with Muse Wonder Max-contributor used 4% of my weekly quota and I quickly switched back”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “noting just how fast Muse Wonder uses up their quotas”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” Privacy and trust concerns
“they expose your usage of muse to your instagram mutuals without consent”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “no company is less deserving of the sort of trust using Muse requires”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder”
Other language models people recommend
The four most recommended other language models, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Opus | 3,331 | 2,746 | 55% | 13 | 4 mo156 owners | — |
| OpenAI GPT | 1,205 | 987 | 55% | 13 | 6 mo47 owners | — |
| Claude Sonnet | 854 | 586 | 59% | 13 | 6 mo46 owners | — |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 828 | 223 | 79% | 8 | 1 mo24 owners | Approved |
| Muse WonderThis page | 22 | 18 | 55% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
35 of the 44 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“argon and muse wonder full are both a full tier below opus/sol”
“that model does not trade blows with the best frontier models by a longshot”
“Billions down, but no sign of cashflow positive operations.”
“They require way too much effort to get things working.”
“having Muse Wonder in the top three makes no sense to me”
“by all accounts I've seen it's actually a good model”
“It goes neck and neck with Opus 5.”
“while Muse is an impressive jump from behind it's still not quite at the frontier either IMO”
“there is no way in hell it's better in practice than either Astra or Fable”
“their insights are very complementary”
“Wonder makes less economic sense.”
“Awesome model. Tested it for data analytics and found it's in the class of Opus 5.5 in terms of performance and cost.”
“$20 per M token make a pelican hard digest.”
“no company is less deserving of the sort of trust using Muse requires”
“Muse exceeded expectations out of the gate, and still does.”
“I have no doubt at all that Muse will turn out as great as the other product space Meta pioneered”
“noting just how fast Muse Wonder uses up their quotas”
“Well, my first impression is that it's still a step below Astra/Opus5.5/Fable here.”
“Muse Wonder isn't much better than Muse Spark 1.3”
“they expose your usage of muse to your instagram mutuals without consent”
“Two somewhat small prompts with Muse Wonder Max-contributor used 4% of my weekly quota and I quickly switched back”
“for certain tasks, this is the best model in the world”
“Some pretty decent pelicans”
“still an entire generation behind in real-world performance”
“It's much worse than Opus 5.5.”
“Looks good, and at least it is available”
“200% Sol 6.1 pricing for Luna performance.”
“it generated a pretty ok result for my prompt”
“Frontier lasts weeks, inference is a commodity.”
“They added fancy annimations and effects to this specific webpage, which are unnecessary and distracting”
“I find it really compelling and with this new incredibly beefy model it will be even better.”
“This really does look compelling, but it would be very nice if they wouldn't test all of the stuff on Max!”
“impressive benchmark numbers… now how to actually use this without Zucking up my machine is a consideration.”
“2nd place model on aa according to them, losing only to opus 5.5 is really really not bad”
“When it was video of a chef, saying words like "flavor" with great enthusiasm, I found it hard to stomach.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.