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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 15, 2026Published at 2:14 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Model API Puts Muse Spark 1.1 Into the Paid Interface Market at $1.25 per Million Input Tokens
The OpenAI-compatible endpoint prices output at $4.25 per million tokens, roughly a fifth of what Anthropic charges for Claude Opus 5 output.
Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 and its new Meta Model API put the company into the metered interface business it had avoided for years. The model is multimodal, has a one-million-token context window, and is built for tool use, computer use and codi…
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