Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Muse Spark Open
Muse Spark Open: 69.4% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#25 of 65 models). We have not run Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Muse Spark Open Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated October 27, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Meta |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Oct 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | Unknown | 816B total / 42B active |
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | See license terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | $1.25 |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | $4.25 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Supported |
| Classification | Demo | Supported |
| Object Detection | Demo | Supported |
| OCR | Demo | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 69.4% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0059 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 7.37s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 57.8% ±0.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 57.0 to 58.2 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 60.9% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 60.3 to 61.9 |
| Counting (low) | – | 75.7% ±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.0 to 78.4 |
| Counting (high) | – | 75.2% ±4.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 71.6 to 79.7 |
| Identification (low) | – | 82.3% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.3 to 84.4 |
| Identification (high) | – | 80.2% ±3.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.1 to 84.4 |
| OCR (low) | – | 67.6% |
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| OCR (high) | – | 68.6% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 63.8% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.9 to 64.9 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 65.1% ±3.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.3 to 68.2 |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Muse Spark Open: Overview
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's mid-tier large language model, released February 17, 2026, designed to balance performance, cost, and versatility for professional and developer use. It supports text and vision-based tasks with advanced reasoning, agentic capabilities, and Adaptive Thinking — a mode where the model dynamically scales its internal reasoning depth. A beta context window of up to 1,000,000 tokens (200K standard) enables processing of entire codebases or document collections in a single request. Parameters are undisclosed.
Optimized for coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work, Sonnet 4.6 delivers a full generational upgrade over Sonnet 4.5 and approaches Opus 4.5-level performance across many benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. It is the default model on Claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and is available via API and major cloud platforms — making it well suited for production workloads requiring strong reasoning without flagship pricing.
Muse Spark Open is an open-weight multimodal model released by Meta on October 15, 2026. Its sparse mixture-of-experts architecture has 816 billion total parameters and activates 42 billion per token. It accepts text, images, audio and video, produces text, and supports a context window of 1,048,576 tokens. Meta provides BF16 and NVFP4 checkpoints for self-hosting, alongside access through hosted inference partners.
The model is designed for coding, tool use and multi-step reasoning over long tasks. Its visual inputs support workflows involving screenshots, documents and other image content. Vision Evals measures its text understanding, counting, identification, reasoning and object detection at Low and High effort. The published weights use the custom Muse Model License, with commercial use subject to its terms and the accompanying usage policy.