Muse Spark 1.2 vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Spark 1.2 is developed by Meta, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max has a published size of about 2.4 trillion 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 Qwen3.8 Max scores 86.6% against 83.0%; DeepSWE 1.1, where Muse Spark 1.2 scores 59.0% against 56.6%. Averaged across everything we track, Muse Spark 1.2 sits at 71.0% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Muse Spark 1.2 is the cheaper API at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.20 per million output tokens, roughly 25 times cheaper than Qwen3.8 Max at $2.50 and $6.25. Both accept a context window of about 1M tokens. Both accept text and images as input.
| Characteristic | Muse Spark 1.2 | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 5, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | — | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | 131K | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | $0.10 | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | $0.20 | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 71.0% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 83.0% | 86.6% |
| DeepSWE 1.1 | 59.0% | 56.6% |
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Verdict
Muse Spark 1.2 leads in 1 out of 4 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Spark 1.2 — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Muse Spark 1.2 is 29.2x cheaper: input $0.10/1M vs $2.50/1M tokens.
Same context size: 1M tokens.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/5/2026 and 8/2/2026.
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