Meta: Muse Spark 1.2

meta · Released Aug 5, 2026
DFO score #25 / 692
65.3 leaderboard score
Speed #18 / 330
277.3 tok/s
Input Price #545 / 692
$1.25 per 1M tokens
Output Price #545 / 692
$4.25 per 1M tokens
Context #35 / 692
1M tokens

Analysis Summary

Muse Spark 1.2 is Meta's multimodal model, with a 1M-token context and text, image, file, audio, and video input. Its measured coding capability is strong, while its agentic result is more moderate by comparison. Tool use and function calling are supported, giving it practical interfaces for applications that need to connect model responses to actions.

For agency work, it is a useful candidate for coding assistance, long-context analysis, and content workflows that incorporate visual or audio material. Multimodal support can reduce the need to split inputs across separate systems, though teams should still validate outputs for each format and task. The listed prices are $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.

It fits as a capable secondary or specialist model for teams seeking broad modality support and strong coding performance. The newer Muse Spark 1.3 is benchmarked, so reserve family-leading selection for that version.

Assessed September 23, 2026

Editorial notes

Muse Spark 1.2 combines strong coding results with vision, audio, video, and file input, a 1M-token context, and tool calling. Its agentic results are less pronounced than its coding performance.

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DFO Verdict

Muse Spark 1.2 combines strong coding results with vision, audio, video, and file input, a 1M-token context, and tool calling. Its agentic results are less pronounced than its coding performance.

#25 of 692 overall Down 3 this week

Benchmarks

Intelligence Index 39.6 #24 of 433 · Artificial Analysis
Coding Index 72.2 #18 of 198 · Artificial Analysis
Agentic Index 43.2 #18 of 181 · Artificial Analysis
Creative Writing Not rated Arena rating
Instruction Following Not rated Arena rating

Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 5, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 2, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.

How Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 compares

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 ranks #24 of 433 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #18 of 198 for coding, #18 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 95% of the models we list. At $1.25 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 21% of comparable models.

Position in the field
DFO score: ahead of 97% of models #24
Speed: faster than 95% of models #18
Price: cheaper than 21% of models #545
Context: larger than 95% of models #35
worst in fieldmedianbest in field
Price vs frontier peers · $ per 1M tokens
Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 $1.25 in $4.25 out
Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $4.00 in $20.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 $2.00 in $10.00 out
Anthropic: Claude Fable 5.1 $10.00 in $50.00 out

Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.

Context window vs peers · tokens

1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.

Pricing

Token Type Cost per 1M tokens Cost per 1K tokens
Input $1.25 $0.001250
Output $4.25 $0.004250

What would Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 cost your business?

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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.

3,000
One request is one message, email, draft or automation call.
1,200 tokens

$7.74/mo Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 $0.0026 per request
$31.68/mo Anthropic: Claude Opus 5.5 $0.01 per request
$15.84/mo Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5.5 · best value $0.0053 per request

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About Meta: Muse Spark 1.2

Muse Spark 1.2 is a reasoning model from Meta, designed for complex agentic tasks. It accepts text, images, video, and PDF documents, returns text, and offers a 1M-token context window..

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Frequently asked questions about Meta: Muse Spark 1.2

How much does Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 cost?

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.

What is the context window of Meta: Muse Spark 1.2?

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 has a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M).

Is Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 good for coding?

On our coding benchmark index, Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 ranks #18 of 198 models, placing it in the top quartile of the field for code generation and debugging.

What can Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 do?

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.

Who created Meta: Muse Spark 1.2?

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 is developed by Meta and was released on August 5, 2026.

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