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Morning Edition · Saturday, August 29, 2026Published at 2:21 AM EDT · New York
Meta Prices Its Muse Spark API Far Below OpenAI and Anthropic Output Rates
Meta charges $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens for a model with a one-million-token context window.
Meta is selling access to its own frontier model through a metered developer interface, and the pricing is the central point. Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, with cached input priced…
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Hyperscalers Enter the Frontier API Market
Large platform companies increasingly convert in-house frontier models into metered, incumbent-compatible APIs, competing on switching cost and distribution rather than pure capability.
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