Claude Haiku 5.5 Max vs Muse Spark 1.3 Max compared

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and Muse Spark 1.3 Max are level on the intelligence index (36.5 and 36.6). Price per token, response speed and when to pick each.

Metric	Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max)	Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)
Intelligence Index	36.5	36.6
Input price (per 1M tokens)	$0.10	$1.25
Output price (per 1M tokens)	$0.50	$4.25
Output speed (tokens/s)	233	140
Time to first token	4.6 min	36s
Release date	2026-10-07	2026-09-02

Metric

Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max)

Muse Spark 1.3 (Max)

Intelligence Index

36.5

36.6

Input price (per 1M tokens)

$0.10

$1.25

Output price (per 1M tokens)

$0.50

$4.25

Output speed (tokens/s)

233

140

Time to first token

4.6 min

36s

Release date

2026-10-07

2026-09-02

On the headline score, Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) and Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) are almost level. Price separates them more than anything else; on a blended basis Muse Spark 1.3 Max costs 10 times as much as Claude Haiku 5.5 Max. No hands-on testing went into this write-up; it summarises the recorded benchmark, price and speed data for both models.

Running costs

The list prices are $0.10 in and $0.50 out for Claude Haiku 5.5 Max, and $1.25 in and $4.25 out for Muse Spark 1.3 Max, per million tokens. That makes Claude Haiku 5.5 Max's output 88% cheaper.

A reference job of 1 million input tokens and 200,000 output tokens costs $0.20 with Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and $2.10 with Muse Spark 1.3 Max, so Claude Haiku 5.5 Max saves $1.90. Scale it up to writing 2,000 drafts of 2,000 output tokens from 300-token prompts and the bill is $2.06 for Claude Haiku 5.5 Max against $17.75 for Muse Spark 1.3 Max. On a 3:1 blend of input to output tokens, that works out to $0.20 versus $2.00 per million.

Waiting time

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max generates about 233 tokens per second and Muse Spark 1.3 Max about 140 tokens per second. Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is ahead by 66% on throughput. The wait for the first token averages 4.6 minutes on Claude Haiku 5.5 Max against 36 seconds on Muse Spark 1.3 Max. The faster writer, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max, gives away too much at the start to win on time: counting the first-token wait, Muse Spark 1.3 Max finishes first for any reply shorter than about 85,000 tokens. Waits that long are felt on every chat-style request, though they matter less for batch jobs.

Add the two numbers up for a 600-token reply and Muse Spark 1.3 Max finishes first: 4.7 minutes for Claude Haiku 5.5 Max, 40 seconds for Muse Spark 1.3 Max.

When they came out

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max arrived on October 7, 2026, 35 days after Muse Spark 1.3 Max (September 2, 2026). They are effectively contemporaries.

A dead heat on the headline index

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max scores 36.5 on the intelligence index and Muse Spark 1.3 Max scores 36.6. On an aggregate like this, under a point is effectively level.

Among 109 active scored models, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max sits 37th and Muse Spark 1.3 Max 36th.

There are no coding or math index scores for either model in the catalogue, which keeps this comparison at the aggregate level.

Value for money

A blunt value measure, blended price over intelligence score, puts Claude Haiku 5.5 Max at $0.0055 and Muse Spark 1.3 Max at $0.055 per point. With scores this close, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is simply the cheaper way to buy the same capability.

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 5.5 Max better than Muse Spark 1.3 Max?

Not across the board: they are level on the intelligence index (36.5 and 36.6); Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is 90% cheaper on blended price; Claude Haiku 5.5 Max streams output 1.7 times as fast; and Muse Spark 1.3 Max reaches its first token sooner.

When were Claude Haiku 5.5 Max and Muse Spark 1.3 Max released?

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is newer. It was released on October 7, 2026, 35 days after Muse Spark 1.3 Max (September 2, 2026).

Which is faster, Claude Haiku 5.5 Max or Muse Spark 1.3 Max?

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max generates output faster, at 233 tokens per second against 140 tokens per second. Muse Spark 1.3 Max reaches its first token sooner (36 seconds against 4.6 minutes). Counting the first-token wait, Muse Spark 1.3 Max finishes first for any reply shorter than about 85,000 tokens.

Is Muse Spark 1.3 Max cheaper than Claude Haiku 5.5 Max?

Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is cheaper on a blended basis. Claude Haiku 5.5 Max lists $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Muse Spark 1.3 Max lists $1.25 and $4.25. For 1 million input and 200,000 output tokens that is $0.20 against $2.10.

Where do these numbers come from?

The figures are the recorded benchmark, price and speed data in Franklin AI's model catalogue. This page is written from that data automatically; neither model was tested by hand for it.

Final whistle

In one line: Claude Haiku 5.5 Max is the stronger all-round pick on this data, while Muse Spark 1.3 Max makes sense in narrower cases. Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 Max if cost matters ($0.50 against $4.25 per million output tokens) and you generate very long outputs, beyond about 85,000 tokens. Pick Muse Spark 1.3 Max if users are waiting on the first word and replies need to finish sooner at typical lengths.

Where the numbers come from

The scores, speed and prices in this comparison come from independent third-party model evaluations that Franklin AI syncs each day, and the article was written from a snapshot of them. For the latest results, open the Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) and Muse Spark 1.3 (Max) pages. The AI Benchmark methodology explains how that data is collected and shown.