Model Comparison
Muse Wonder vs Grok 4.6
Too close to call: the best configurations, Muse Wonder (max) and Grok 4.6 (high), are 56 Elo apart, and their 95% ranges overlap. Among 80 models, each ranked by its best configuration, Muse Wonder is #16 and Grok 4.6 is #20. Cost per script: $0.309 for Muse Wonder (max) and $0.156 for Grok 4.6 (high).
Last updated , from board data generated at 20:08 UTC.
Picks and Verdict
PickMuse Wonder
Muse Wonder (max)
Pick Muse Wonder (max) when you need the draft back fast, since the board can't separate it from Grok and it finishes in 2.0 minutes against 5.2.
PickGrok 4.6
Grok 4.6 (high)
Pick Grok 4.6 (high) as the default, since at $0.156 a script, about half of Muse's price, it leads on Tone & Voice Match and the board can't separate it from Muse's best.
The board can't separate these two, so the choice comes down to price, speed and the metrics you care about. Muse Wonder (max) sits 56 Elo above Grok 4.6 (high), Grok's only setting on the board, and their 95% ranges overlap. Muse is the #16 model of 80, Grok the #20 model. Grok costs $0.156 a script, about half of Muse's $0.309, while Muse answers in 2.0 minutes where Grok takes 5.2. The scripts split six to four in Grok's favor. Grok sounds more like me, 2.1 points up on Tone & Voice Match, and lands the length 8.2 points better. Muse writes cleaner sentences, 2.6 points up on craft, with a stronger hook, better continuity and a better Slop Score. At high, the one level name they share, Muse loses. Muse Wonder (high) costs about the same as Grok, $0.149, and sits 285 Elo lower with separate ranges, mostly because it misses the requested length. Muse Wonder (adaptive), where the model picks its own level, does worse still. I'd default to Grok for the price and the voice, and run Muse at max when I need a draft fast.
How to Read the Writing Score, Writing Elo and 95% Ranges
Writing Score and Writing Elo. The Writing Score (0 to 100) is the weighted average of the nine metric scores: seven from the judges, Length Adherence from code and the Slop Score half from each. The Writing Elo is a rating from pairwise comparisons: on each script, each configuration's average across its drafts is compared with every other configuration's, and gaps within the draft-to-draft variation count as draws. Elo rewards winning often, so the two can put configurations in a different order.
Elo ranges. Each 95% range shows how far a configuration's Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently. It comes from resampling every configuration's recorded draft scores on each reference script and ranking again. Comparing two separate ranges does not test the Elo gap between them: ranges far apart are strong evidence for the order, and overlapping ranges do not mean a tie. The reference scripts stay fixed, so the ranges say nothing about new scripts. The methodology page has the full description.
All Thinking Levels of Both Models
Every ranked configuration of Muse Wonder and Grok 4.6, scored on the same 10 scripts by the same four judges.
- Each row is one configuration: the model at one thinking level. The dot is its Writing Elo, a rating from pairwise comparisons of the scores on each script, and the bar is its 95% range: how far that Elo could move if the drafts had come out slightly differently.
- When two bars overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations. Bars far apart are strong evidence for the order.
- The table under the chart lists the same configurations in the same order and adds the Writing Score (the 0 to 100 consensus of the judges and code), cost, time and configuration rank (the place among all configurations on the board).
Shaded rows are the configurations chosen for the metric comparison below.
| Configuration | Writing Elo | 95% Range | Writing Score | Cost / Script | Time / Script | Reasoning Tokens | Configuration Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Muse Wonder (max) | 2005 | 1959 to 2044 | 80.6 | $0.309 | 2.0 min | 9,601 | #31 |
| Grok 4.6 (high) | 1949 | 1900 to 1996 | 80.3 | $0.156 | 5.2 min | 18,588 | #39 |
| Muse Wonder (high) | 1664 | 1600 to 1724 | 76.7 | $0.149 | 0.9 min | 1,385 | #58 |
| Muse Wonder (adaptive) | 1604 | 1550 to 1661 | 76.2 | $0.139 | 0.8 min | 766 | #70 |
Cost is one script at the API list price of the route used, uncached and without judging. Time is the average for one accepted script, retries included.
Computed Findings Across Thinking Levels
Each finding is computed from the configurations above. Where two 95% ranges overlap, the board cannot order those two configurations.
- Best Configurations Head to Head. Muse Wonder (max) at Elo 2005 (range 1959 to 2044) and Grok 4.6 (high) at Elo 1949 (range 1900 to 1996) have overlapping 95% ranges, so the board cannot separate the two best configurations.
- Same Level Name, Side by Side. At high, the one level name both models use, Grok 4.6 has the higher Writing Elo: 1949 against 1664. Their 95% ranges do not overlap there. Level names come from each provider, so the same name does not promise the same reasoning budget.
- Cheapest Configuration Overlapping the Top One. Grok 4.6 (high), at $0.156 per script, is the cheapest configuration whose 95% range overlaps that of Muse Wonder (max), at $0.309 per script: 1900 to 1996 against 1959 to 2044, so the board cannot separate them. Muse Wonder (max) costs about 2 times as much per script.
- Cheapest Muse Wonder Configuration Above Grok 4.6's Best. The cheapest Muse Wonder configuration with a higher Writing Elo than Grok 4.6 (high), at Elo 1949 and $0.156 per script, is Muse Wonder (max), at Elo 2005 and $0.309 per script. Their 95% ranges overlap, so the board cannot separate them. It costs about 2 times as much per script.
- Lowest to Highest Thinking Level. Muse Wonder moves +341 Elo from high to max, at about 2.1 times the cost per script.
Two Chosen Configurations Compared
Pick one configuration of each model to compare their metric scores, consistency across drafts and per-script scores. Each menu starts on the model's best configuration.
Scores by Metric
Muse Wonder (max) scores higher on six of the nine metrics and Grok 4.6 (high) on three. Weighted by each metric's share of the Writing Score, Continuity & Emotion does the most to put Muse Wonder (max) ahead, with a 2.5-point lead on that metric. The weight beside each metric is its share of the Writing Score.
Consistency Across Drafts
| Muse Wonder (max) | Grok 4.6 (high) | |
|---|---|---|
| Score spread across drafts (±) | 1.91 | 1.82 |
| Lowest script score | 78.2 Script 10 | 78.5 Script 3 |
| Highest script score | 82.2 Script 5 | 82.8 Script 6 |
| Range across scripts | 4.0 | 4.3 |
Spread is how much the Writing Score moves between a configuration's drafts, and lower is steadier. Green marks the better number in each row.
Scores by Script
Writing Score on each reference script. Gap is Muse Wonder (max) minus Grok 4.6 (high), and the higher score is in bold.
| Script | Muse Wonder (max) | Grok 4.6 (high) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| Script 1 opinion / warning explainer | 81.3 | 81.6 | -0.3 |
| Script 2 news-analysis / skeptical explainer | 81.7 | 80.8 | +0.9 |
| Script 3 personal roadmap / opinion | 81.3 | 78.5 | +2.8 |
| Script 4 short explainer | 79.5 | 80.2 | -0.7 |
| Script 5 news-analysis / opinion explainer | 82.2 | 81.1 | +1.1 |
| Script 6 founder announcement / personal origin story | 81.3 | 82.8 | -1.5 |
| Script 7 personal technical walkthrough / agentic workflow case study | 78.5 | 79.0 | -0.5 |
| Script 8 product release announcement / personal observation | 82.1 | 79.7 | +2.4 |
| Script 9 career guide / hiring analysis | 79.9 | 80.4 | -0.5 |
| Script 10 engineering process walkthrough / presentation adaptation | 78.2 | 79.1 | -0.9 |
Scorecards and Thinking Pages
Each configuration name in the table above opens its own scorecard.
Compare With Another Model
Pick a second model. A pair with its own written match-up opens that page, and any other pair opens in the comparison tool.
Nearby Match-Ups by Best Writing Elo
Every configuration wrote five drafts for each of the same 10 briefs, from the same prompt. Generation was closed-book, with the prompt as the only source and no web search or other tools. Each judge scores every draft once: Claude Opus 5.5 at medium effort through the Claude Code subscription, GPT-6.1 Sol at medium reasoning through the Codex CLI, GLM 5.3 Flash through OpenRouter, and Jev 1.13, a typed judge from TypeSafe that answers each metric as a multiple-choice question. The channel's finished script is their reference for the voice, and it gets no score on the board itself.
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