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Morning Edition · Monday, September 28, 2026Published at 2:48 AM EDT · New York
Meta Sells Muse Spark 1.3 at $1.25 per Million Input Tokens Through Its Own Metered API
The model carries a one-million-token context and closed weights, places sixth of 636 models on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, and still trails Opus 5 on four of six agent benchmarks in Meta's own scorecard.
Meta's shift from open weights to a metered endpoint is now fully priced. The Meta Model API, launched in public preview in July alongside Muse Spark 1.1, is OpenAI-compatible with structured output and parallel tool calling, which removes…
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