Muse Wondervs.DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Which one is better?

Muse Wonder is clearly ahead in the overall index, but costs 26.7 times (input) and 33.3 times (output) as much per token.

IntelligenceOverall index, 0 to 100 · higher is better

Muse Wonder

Rank 10 to 12

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Rank 14 to 22

SpeedTokens per second · higher is better

197

Muse Wonder

fast

178

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

fast

PriceDollars per 1M tokens · lower is better

Muse Wonder

expensive

$0.26

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

cheap

Muse Wonder

Subscription: No Meta subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €106.01 a month (Command Code Max 10×, with limited credits). 4 plans in Germany.
Via API: $4 input, $20 output per 1M tokens.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Subscription: No DeepSeek subscription includes this model. Through other providers from ≈ €6.36 a month (Token Plan Individual Lite, with limited credits). 7 plans in Germany.
Via API: $0.15 input, $0.60 output per 1M tokens according to the provider; the price index has listed it at $0.30 and $1 since Oct 26, 2026.

Overall index with data through Oct 29, 2026 · Prices from Oct 29, 2026 · Speed: measured by Artificial Analysis · Subscriptions as of Oct 24, 2026 · Subscription prices incl. VAT

Where is the difference?

Values from 0 to 100 per task area. We only name a winner when the gap is large enough and there are enough tests.

Muse Wonder ahead: 5DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 ahead: 0level: 1too little data: 3of 9 areas

AreaMuse WonderDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 10170 to 100, higher is betterResult

Areas in the overall index

CodingMuse Wonder ahead8072

ReasoningMuse Wonder ahead8345

Mathematicsonly Muse Wonder has a score80not enough data

KnowledgeMuse Wonder ahead8133

AgentsMuse Wonder ahead8275

Generalonly Muse Wonder has a score62not enough data

Multimodalonly DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 has a scorenot enough data55

Specialist fields

Financelevel7969

LegalMuse Wonder ahead9176

Show 2 more areas that do not count toward the overall index

AreaMuse WonderDeepSeek V4.1 Flash 10170 to 100, higher is betterResult

Cybersecurityonly Muse Wonder has a score94not enough data

Productivityonly Muse Wonder has a score87not enough data

See for yourself: same task, one attempt

The same prompt for both models. We show the latest attempt without fixes; it does not count toward the overall index.

Pelican on a bicycle

A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.

Muse Wonder

Not tested yet

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

Not tested yet

Prompt and test conditions

Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Token limit including reasoning: 8,192 tokens

Task origin (Simon Willison)

All data side by side

The better value is bold. For the overall index only when the gap is clear.

Metric	Muse Wonder	DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017
Intelligence
Overall index0 to 100, higher is better	82	64
Rank	Rank 10 to 12 of 95	Rank 14 to 22 of 95
Price per 1M tokens
Inputwhat you send	$4	$0.15
Outputwhat the model writes	$20	$0.60
Speed
Tokens per second	197	178
Technical
Context windowhow much text the model reads at once	1.05 M tokens≈ 1,570 A4 pages	1.05 M tokens≈ 1,570 A4 pages
Knowledge cutoff	n/a	n/a
Released	Oct 12, 2026	Oct 17, 2026
Availability	Preview	Open Source
Open weights	no	yes

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017: At peak times (Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 01:00-04:00 UTC; Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, 06:00-10:00 UTC) the price is $0.30 input and $1.20 output per 1M tokens. The table shows the off-peak price.
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017, Time-based API pricing: Off peak: $0.15 input, $0.60 output, and $0.003 cached input. Weekdays UTC 01:00-04:00 and 06:00-10:00: $0.30, $1.20, and $0.006. Chinese public holidays are excluded. Source

Prices without caching or batch discounts · Page count as a rule of thumb from Artificial Analysis

Shared benchmarks

Single results from the same benchmark version, task and metric. A value is bold only with the same test setup and a clear gap.

A: Muse WonderB: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017

AA-BriefcaseOverall · higher is better1,658.65 elo1,570.42 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

AA-OmniscienceOverall · higher is better25.1 points0.9 pointsArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

AA-Omniscience AccuracyOverall · higher is better38.0%39.6%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

AA-Omniscience Hallucination RateOverall · lower is better20.9%64.1%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

Artificial Analysis Intelligence IndexOverall · higher is better43.325 points32.49 pointsArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

AutomationBench-AAOverall · higher is better68.1%66.6%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

Code MigrationOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical62.6%44.2%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026

Code Migration v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical72.4%67.5%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

CritPt v2Overall · higher is better28.3%24.0%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)Overall · higher is better48.0%24.0%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

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EMBOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical67.1%61.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

EMB v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical72.5%69.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Finance Agent (v2)Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical56.6%57%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

Finance Agent v2.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical65.5%62.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

FrontierCodeOverall · higher is better27.9%28.5%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

FrontierCode 1.1 MainOverall · higher is better46.5%43.7%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

GDP.pdfOverall · higher is better30.6%17.2%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

GDPval-AAOverall · higher is better1,770.34 elo1,745.77 eloArtificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

HLAB-Vals-1.1Overall · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical23.8%14.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

HLE-DiamondOverall · higher is better39.0%25.3%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

Legal Research BenchOverall · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical50.5%45.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

LMArena Code Arena WebDevOverall · higher is better1,6521,666LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026

Tax Agent BenchOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical36.3%44.4%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Terminal-BenchOverall · higher is better52.0%33.8%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

Terminal-Bench 4.0Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical49.5%31.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Terminal-Bench-ScienceOverall · higher is better25.7%12.9%Artificial AnalysisAs of 10/29/2026

Vals Finance IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical61.2%60.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical64.9%61.3%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026

Vals Legal IndexOverall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical75.3%71.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals Router IndexOverall · higher is better64.9%61.3%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

Vibe Code Bench v1.1Overall · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical83.1%87.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Code MigrationCLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical60.1%35.6%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026

Code Migration v1.1CLI · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical67.1%59.2%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

EMBComps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical79.5%49.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

EMB v1.1Comps · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical77.9%70.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Finance Agent (v2)Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical52.7%58.4%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

Finance Agent v2.1Adjustments · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical64.7%66.8%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

HLAB-Vals-1.1Antitrust Competition · Criteria passed · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical95.7%93.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · All-pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical63.6%59.1%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

LMArena Code Arena WebDevHTML development · higher is better1,6711,705LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026

Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical20%23.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Terminal-Bench 4.0Hardware · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical46.7%6.7%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals Finance IndexEMB v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical72.5%69.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals IndexCode Migration v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical69.8%68.5%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026

Vals Legal IndexBusiness & Commercial · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical72.4%68%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals Router IndexCode Migration · higher is better69.8%68.5%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

Code MigrationCOBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical70%70%Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026

Code Migration v1.1COBOL · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical88%92.5%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

EMBDataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical79.2%82.8%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

EMB v1.1Dataroom · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical87.7%86.5%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Finance Agent (v2)All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical45.9%45.2%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

Finance Agent v2.1All-Pass · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical53.1%51.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

HLAB-Vals-1.1Antitrust Competition · Task fully resolved · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical20%30%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Legal Research BenchAdministrative / Regulatory · Weighted partial credit · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical90.6%91.3%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

LMArena Code Arena WebDevReact development · higher is better1,6501,672LMArenaAs of 10/27/2026

Tax Agent BenchControversy & Precedence Analysis · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical71.4%73.2%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Terminal-Bench 4.0Media · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical33.3%25%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals Finance IndexFinance Agent v2.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical65.5%62.9%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals IndexEMB v1.1 · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical72.5%69.2%Vals AIAs of 10/27/2026

Vals Legal IndexCivil Negligence · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical66.3%64.6%Vals AIAs of 10/26/2026

Vals Router IndexCoding · higher is better67.5%62.7%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

Code MigrationCode Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical4.061 / 53.992 / 5Vals AIAs of 10/18/2026

Code Migration v1.1Code Quality · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical3%3.5%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

EMBDCF · higher is betterTest setup not documented as identical51%53%Vals AIAs of 10/20/2026

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Where is the difference?

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