# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-27T06:30:19.445Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-27/meta-charges-for-model-access-as-muse-spark-1-3-reaches-98-5
- 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 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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