Muse Spark 1.2 vs Muse Spark Open: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Spark Open both come from Meta, Muse Spark 1.2 was released in August 2026, and Muse Spark Open followed 2 months later in October 2026. Muse Spark Open has a published size of about 816 billion parameters; Meta has not disclosed the parameter count of Muse Spark 1.2.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. They split them evenly, 1 to 1. The widest gaps are on Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Muse Spark 1.2 scores 83.0% against 76.4%; DeepSWE 1.1, where Muse Spark Open scores 60.0% against 59.0%. Averaged across everything we track, Muse Spark 1.2 sits at 71.0% and Muse Spark Open at 62.3%.
On price the two are close: Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, Muse Spark Open $1.25 and $4.25. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Muse Spark 1.2 accepts text and images as input, while Muse Spark Open accepts text, images, audio, and video.
| Characteristic | Muse Spark 1.2 | Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | Meta |
| Release Date | August 5, 2026 | October 15, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 816B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 131K | 1.0M |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.25 | $1.25 |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.25 | $4.25 |
| Average Score | 71.0% | 62.3% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.0% | 76.4% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 59.0% | 60.0% |
Visual Benchmark Comparison
Verdict
Muse Spark Open leads in 1 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Spark 1.2 — 0.7, Muse Spark Open — 0.6.
API cost is identical: input $1.25/1M, output $4.25/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Muse Spark Open is newer: released 10/15/2026 vs 8/5/2026.
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