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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 6, 2026Published at 2:32 AM EDT · New York
Meta Prices Its Model Programming Interface Below Rivals as Muse Spark Reaches Version 1.3
Standard access costs $1.25 and $4.25 per million input and output tokens, roughly an eighth and a twelfth of what OpenAI charges for GPT-6 Astra.
Meta's paid model business, which began in July with Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API, reached version 1.3 on September 2. The company kept standard pricing unchanged at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output token…
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Frontier Model Price War
Frontier API vendors increasingly compete on strategic price-cutting rather than pure capability, repeatedly launching or repricing models below prevailing rates to grab share and compressing industry inference margins; expect recurring below-rival pricing moves.
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