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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 22, 2026Published at 2:18 AM EDT · New York
Meta Runs a Two-Track Model Business: a Metered API on Top, Open Weights Underneath
Muse Spark 1.2 and the Muse Code agent sell through an OpenAI-compatible application programming interface (API) at $1.25 and $4.25 per million tokens, while the 30-billion-parameter Muse Glimmer ships free for a single consumer graphics card.
Meta's paid track runs through the Meta Model API, which launched in public preview alongside Muse Spark 1.1 on July 9 with a one-million-token context window, an interface compatible with the OpenAI software development kit, and pricing of…
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