# Meta Sells Metered Access to Its Own Frontier Model Through an OpenAI-Compatible API

Muse Spark 1.1 carries a one-million-token context window and reaches developers through the Meta Model API, which Meta calls its first pay-as-you-go inference business.

- Published: 2026-08-17T06:18:43.890Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-08-17/meta-sells-metered-access-to-its-own-frontier-model-through
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/), [Meta AI Developers](https://developer.meta.com/ai/resources/blog/build-with-muse-spark/)

Meta's position in the model market has reversed. The company that built its reputation on downloadable Llama weights now sells metered access to a closed model, Muse Spark 1.1, the second release from Meta Superintelligence Labs and an upg…

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