Head-to-head comparison across 3benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude Opus 4.7
93
Muse Spark
80
Verified leaderboard positions: Claude Opus 4.7 #2 · Muse Spark unranked
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Muse Spark only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Agentic
+15.9 difference
Coding
+11.2 difference
Knowledge
+17.8 difference
Claude Opus 4.7
Muse Spark
$5 / $25
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1M
262K
Pick Claude Opus 4.7 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Muse Spark only becomes the better choice if you want the stronger reasoning-first profile.
Claude Opus 4.7 is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 93 to 80. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Claude Opus 4.7's sharpest advantage is in knowledge, where it averages 68.2 against 50.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SWE-bench Pro, 64.3% to 52.4%.
Muse Spark is the reasoning model in the pair, while Claude Opus 4.7 is not. That usually helps on harder chain-of-thought-heavy tests, but it can also mean more latency and more token spend in real use. Claude Opus 4.7 gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 262K for Muse Spark.
Claude Opus 4.7 is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 93 to 80. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SWE-bench Pro, where the scores are 64.3% and 52.4%.
Claude Opus 4.7 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.2 versus 50.4. Inside this category, GPQA-D is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 72.9 versus 61.7. Inside this category, SWE-bench Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Claude Opus 4.7 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.9 versus 59. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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