head-to-head

Meta: Muse Wonder vs DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-13.

Meta: Muse Wonder DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
Vendormetadeepseek
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score90.266.3
Input Price$4.00/M$0.15/M
Output Price$20.00/M$0.60/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output943,718393,216
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index86.465.1

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash costs $0.30 and Muse Wonder costs $9.00, so DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is about 30.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Muse Wonder offers audio input and video input.

On our blended benchmark score Muse Wonder leads 90.2 to 66.3.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Wonder scores higher on 13 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), DeepSeek V4.1 Flash on 7 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).

Muse Wonder was released in October 2026 and DeepSeek V4.1 Flash in September 2026.

Pick Muse Wonder if you need audio input, video input or benchmark performance; pick DeepSeek V4.1 Flash if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskMeta: Muse WonderDeepSeek: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash
SQL Generation 142 141
Code Review 148 144
Code Completion 116 133
Code Refactoring 149 146
Bug Fixing 152 148
Unit Test Generation 134 131
Code Documentation 135 137
Regex Writing 123 126
CI/CD Pipelines 130 127
Frontend Component Design 132 129
Data Analysis 137 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 136
ETL Scripting 140 137
JSON Extraction 119 131
Bulk Data Labeling 114 129
OCR / Document Parsing 135 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 134
Long-Document Summarization 149 148
Short-Form Summarization 115 127
Blog Post Writing 130 129

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

Related comparisons

Meta: Muse Wonder vs StepFun: Step 5 Preview Meta: Muse Wonder vs Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 Meta: Muse Wonder vs Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) Meta: Muse Wonder vs Mistral: Mistral Large 4 Meta: Muse Wonder vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro Meta: Muse Wonder vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Pro (batch) Meta: Muse Wonder vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol Meta: Muse Wonder vs OpenAI: GPT-6.1 Sol (batch)

The Model Movers Report

One email every Friday, built from this site's own rankings: the current top five by benchmark score, every model released in the last seven days, and one note worked out from that week's numbers. You can unsubscribe from any issue with one click.