Muse Spark 1.2 vs North Micro Vision Instruct: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Spark 1.2 is developed by Meta, while North Micro Vision Instruct comes from Cohere. Both were released in August 2026. North Micro Vision Instruct has a published size of about 2 billion parameters; Meta has not disclosed the parameter count of Muse Spark 1.2.
We have 3 benchmark results for Muse Spark 1.2 and 19 benchmark results for North Micro Vision Instruct, but they were measured on different benchmarks, so there is no like-for-like scoreboard.
Muse Spark 1.2 is available through an API at $1.25 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for North Micro Vision Instruct, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Muse Spark 1.2 | North Micro Vision Instruct |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | Cohere |
| Release Date | August 5, 2026 | August 12, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 131K | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $1.25 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $4.25 | — |
| Average Score | 71.0% | 61.1% |
Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Spark 1.2 — 0.7, North Micro Vision Instruct — 0.6.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/5/2026 and 8/12/2026.
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