vs
0:6
overall capability wins (0 ties across 6 scored). Muse Spark 1.2 leads overall.
- Reasoning0:3
- Arena0:1
- Pricing3:0
- Speed2:0
- Specs0:2
Verdict
Muse Spark 1.2 edges reasoning & knowledge; Muse Spark 1.2 ranks higher on LMArena (+276 Elo); Muse Spark 1.2 offers ~128.0x larger context (1.0M vs 8K).
- Muse Spark 1.2 edges reasoning & knowledge
- Muse Spark 1.2 ranks higher on LMArena (+276 Elo)
- Muse Spark 1.2 offers ~128.0x larger context (1.0M vs 8K)
- Muse Spark 1.2 allows ~16.0x more max output (131K vs 8K)
- Llama 3 8B ships open weights (Llama 3)
- Llama 3 8B is ~34.8x cheaper on a blended token basis than Muse Spark 1.2
Cost for 1M in + 250K out
Illustrative chat workload at primary-provider list prices.
- Llama 3 8B
- $0.07
- Muse Spark 1.2
- $2.31
Llama 3 8B is about 33.0x cheaper on this workload.
Price per 1M tokens
Full comparison
Organization
Meta
Meta
Family
Llama / Muse
Llama / Muse
License
Llama 3
Proprietary
Open weights
Yes
No
Release
Apr 18, 2024
Aug 5, 2026
Knowledge cutoff
-
-
API / provider
Groq / Together (ref.)
Meta
Modalities
text → text
text, image, video, audio, pdf → text
Specs
Context window
8K
1.0M
Max output
8K
131K
Parameters
8B
—
Pricing
Input $/1M
$0.05
$1.25
Output $/1M
$0.08
$4.25
Blended $/1M (3∶1)
$0.06
$2
Speed
tok/s
200
95
TTFT (s)
0.12
0.38
Reasoning
MMLU-Pro
—
—
GPQA Diamond
29.6
90.4
Humanity's Last Exam
5.1
45.5
AIME 2025
—
—
MATH-500
—
—
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)
—
—
AA-Omniscience Accuracy
10.4
45.4
AA-LCR v1.1
—
79.0
CritPt
—
17.7
MMMU-Pro
—
—
IFBench
24.6
—
Chartography
—
—
Chartography (With Tools)
—
—
Coding
SWE-bench Verified
—
—
SWE-bench Pro
—
—
SWE-bench Multilingual
—
—
LiveCodeBench
—
—
Terminal-Bench 2.1
—
80.1
Aider Polyglot
—
—
Terminal-Bench 3
—
—
BigCodeBench
31.9
—
SciCode
—
57.4
CursorBench
—
—
SWE-Rebench
—
—
NL2Repo-Bench
—
—
DeepSWE
—
55.0
WebDev Arena
—
1,535
Terminal-Bench 4.0
—
—
CursorBench 4.0
—
—
FrontierCode v1.1 (Main)
—
—
Arena
LMArena Elo
1,223
1,500
| Metric | Llama 3 8B | Muse Spark 1.2 | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity | |||
| Organization | Meta | Meta | — |
| Family | Llama / Muse | Llama / Muse | — |
| License | Llama 3 | Proprietary | — |
| Open weights | Yes | No | — |
| Release | Apr 18, 2024 | Aug 5, 2026 | — |
| Knowledge cutoff | - | - | — |
| API / provider | Groq / Together (ref.) | Meta | — |
| Modalities | text → text | text, image, video, audio, pdf → text | — |
| Specs | |||
| Context window | 8K | 1.0M | B +1.0M |
| Max output | 8K | 131K | B +123K |
| Parameters | 8B | — | — |
| Pricing | |||
| Input $/1M | $0.05 | $1.25 | A +$1.20 |
| Output $/1M | $0.08 | $4.25 | A +$4.17 |
| Blended $/1M (3∶1) | $0.06 | $2 | A +$1.94 |
| Speed | |||
| tok/s | 200 | 95 | A +105 |
| TTFT (s) | 0.12 | 0.38 | A +0.26 |
| Reasoning | |||
| MMLU-Pro | — | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 29.6 | 90.4 | B +60.8 pts |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.1 | 45.5 | B +40.4 pts |
| AIME 2025 | — | — | — |
| MATH-500 | — | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | — | — | — |
| AA-Omniscience Accuracy | 10.4 | 45.4 | B +35.0 pts |
| AA-LCR v1.1 | — | 79.0 | — |
| CritPt | — | 17.7 | — |
| MMMU-Pro | — | — | — |
| IFBench | 24.6 | — | — |
| Chartography | — | — | — |
| Chartography (With Tools) | — | — | — |
| Coding | |||
| SWE-bench Verified | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Pro | — | — | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | — | 80.1 | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 3 | — | — | — |
| BigCodeBench | 31.9 | — | — |
| SciCode | — | 57.4 | — |
| CursorBench | — | — | — |
| SWE-Rebench | — | — | — |
| NL2Repo-Bench | — | — | — |
| DeepSWE | — | 55.0 | — |
| WebDev Arena | — | 1,535 | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| CursorBench 4.0 | — | — | — |
| FrontierCode v1.1 (Main) | — | — | — |
| Arena | |||
| LMArena Elo | 1,223 | 1,500 | B +276 Elo |
Llama 3 8B
- Context
- 8K / 8K out
- Parameters
- 8B
- Price
- $0.05 / $0.08
- Speed
- 200 tok/s · 0.12s TTFT
- Modalities
- text → text
- License
- Llama 3
Compact Llama 3 instruct — still a common local and Groq ultra-low-latency SKU.
Muse Spark 1.2
- Context
- 1.0M / 131K out
- Parameters
- —
- Price
- $1.25 / $4.25
- Speed
- 95 tok/s · 0.38s TTFT
- Modalities
- text, image, video, audio, pdf → text
- License
- Proprietary
Co-trained with Muse Code for higher first-attempt accuracy and more reliable tool calling — 1M context coding-focused upgrade; Meta Model API at $1.25/$4.25 (contributor tier $0.10/$0.20).
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