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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 27, 2026Published at 2:30 AM EDT · New York
Meta Charges for Model Access as Muse Spark 1.3 Reaches 98.5 on Its Long-Context Recall Test
The Meta Model API is compatible with OpenAI's interface, priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, and Meta engineers report the model using about 25 percent fewer tokens than its predecessor.
Meta has moved from giving its models away to charging for access, and that shift is now a product line. The Meta Model API launched in public preview with Muse Spark 1.1 in July. It was deliberately built to be compatible with OpenAI's int…
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