# Meta Sells Its Best Model by the Token After Years of Giving Weights Away

Muse Spark 1.1 reaches outside developers through the Meta Model API at $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens, undercutting the frontier tiers it is aimed at.

- Published: 2026-08-04T06:16:46.804Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-04/meta-sells-its-best-model-by-the-token-after-years-of-giving
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/)

Meta opened its top model to outside developers on July 9 with Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API, a multimodal reasoning model with a one-million-token context window aimed at agentic work, tool use, computer use and coding. Developers…

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