Mistral Large 2 vs Muse Spark 1.3: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Mistral Large 2 is developed by Mistral AI, while Muse Spark 1.3 comes from Meta. Mistral Large 2 was released in July 2024, and Muse Spark 1.3 followed 26 months later in September 2026. Mistral Large 2 has a published size of about 123 billion parameters; Meta has not disclosed the parameter count of Muse Spark 1.3.
We have 5 benchmark results for Mistral Large 2 and 11 benchmark results for Muse Spark 1.3, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Muse Spark 1.3 is the cheaper API at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, about 60% below Mistral Large 2 at $2 and $6. Muse Spark 1.3 takes the larger context window at 1M tokens, compared with 128K for Mistral Large 2. Mistral Large 2 accepts text as input, while Muse Spark 1.3 accepts text, images, audio, and video.
| Characteristic | Mistral Large 2 | Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Mistral AI | Meta |
| Release Date | July 24, 2024 | September 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 123B | — |
| Multimodal | No | Yes |
| Context (input) | 128K | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 128K | 944K |
| Input Price / 1M | $2.00 | $1.25 |
| Output Price / 1M | $6.00 | $4.25 |
| Average Score | 87.6% | 73.4% |
Verdict
Muse Spark 1.3 leads in 3 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Mistral Large 2 — 0.9, Muse Spark 1.3 — 0.7.
Muse Spark 1.3 is 1.5x cheaper: input $1.25/1M vs $2.00/1M tokens.
Muse Spark 1.3 supports a larger context: 1M vs 128K tokens.
Muse Spark 1.3 is newer: released 9/2/2026 vs 7/24/2024.
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