vs
0:6
overall capability wins (0 ties across 6 scored). Muse Spark 1.3 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:4
- Coding0:1
- Pricing1:2
- Specs0:1
Verdict
Muse Spark 1.3 leads coding (widest gap: +28.9 on SciCode); Muse Spark 1.3 offers ~8.2x larger context (1.0M vs 128K); Llama 3.1 405B ships open weights (Llama 3.1 Community).
- Muse Spark 1.3 leads coding (widest gap: +28.9 on SciCode)
- Muse Spark 1.3 offers ~8.2x larger context (1.0M vs 128K)
- Llama 3.1 405B ships open weights (Llama 3.1 Community)
- Muse Spark 1.3 is ~1.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Llama 3.1 405B
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Llama 3.1 405B
- $4.38
- Muse Spark 1.3
- $2.31
Muse Spark 1.3 is about 1.9x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Meta
Meta
Family
Llama / Muse
Llama / Muse
License
Llama 3.1 Community
Proprietary
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Jul 23, 2024
Sep 2, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Together / Fireworks (ref.)
Meta
Modalities
text → text
text, image, video, pdf → text
Specs
Context window
128K
1.0M
Max output
4K
-
Parameters
405B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$3.50
$1.25
Output $/1M
$3.50
$4.25
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$3.50
$2
Speed
tok/s
40
-
TTFT (s)
0.6
-
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
73.3
—
GPQA Diamond
51.5
93.5
Humanity's Last Exam
4.0
48.7
AIME 2025
3.0
—
MATH-500
70.3
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
23.2
43.6
AA-LCR v1.1
25.3
83.0
CritPt
—
24.9
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
39.0
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
11.2
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
27.7
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
85.8
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
—
—
SciCode
29.9
58.8
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
—
WebDev Arena
—
—
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,335
—
| Metric | Llama 3.1 405B | Muse Spark 1.3 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Meta | Meta | — |
| Family | Llama / Muse | Llama / Muse | — |
| License | Llama 3.1 Community | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Jul 23, 2024 | Sep 2, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Together / Fireworks (ref.) | Meta | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image, video, pdf → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 128K | 1.0M | B +921K |
| Max output | 4K | - | — |
| Parameters | 405B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $3.50 | $1.25 | B +$2.25 |
| Output $/1M | $3.50 | $4.25 | A +$0.75 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $3.50 | $2 | B +$1.50 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 40 | - | — |
| TTFT (s) | 0.6 | - | — |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | 73.3 | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 51.5 | 93.5 | B +42.0 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.0 | 48.7 | B +44.7 pts |
| AIME 2025 | 3.0 | — | — |
| MATH-500 | 70.3 | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 23.2 | 43.6 | B +20.4 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | 25.3 | 83.0 | B +57.7 pts |
| CritPt | — | 24.9 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 39.0 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | 11.2 | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | 27.7 | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 85.8 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | — | — | — |
| SciCode | 29.9 | 58.8 | B +28.9 pts |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | — | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,335 | — | — |
Llama 3.1 405B
- Context
- 128K / 4K out
- Parameters
- 405B
- Price
- $3.50 / $3.50
- Speed
- 40 tok/s · 0.6s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Llama 3.1 Community
Largest Llama 3.1 dense instruct model - still used where dense (non-MoE) weights are required.
Muse Spark 1.3
- Context
- 1.0M
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.25 / $4.25
- Speed
- —
- Modalities
- text, image, video, pdf → text
- License
- Proprietary
Meta's Sept 2026 coding/agentic upgrade to Muse Spark — ~20% fewer tool calls and ~25% fewer tokens than 1.2 in internal comparisons, with longer-horizon multi-workflow persistence and more proactive clarifying questions. Same 1M context and $1.25/$4.25 Meta Model API pricing as 1.2 (contributor tier $0.10/$0.20). Open weights planned but not yet released; max reasoning mode pending further safety testing.
Benchmark charts
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