# Meta Sells Frontier Model Access Through Its Own API at a Fraction of Anthropic's Rate

Muse Spark 1.1 carries a one-million-token context window and lists at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens on the Meta Model API.

- Published: 2026-09-08T06:18:45.692Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-08/meta-sells-frontier-model-access-through-its-own-api-at-a-fr
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/)

Meta has moved from releasing open weights to selling metered access. Muse Spark 1.1 launched on 9 July alongside a public preview of the Meta Model API, putting Meta Superintelligence Labs into the same paid-access business as OpenAI and A…

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