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Meta Releases Muse Spark 1.1 and Its First Paid Model API

July 10, 2026 at 13:01 EDT

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On July 9, 2026, Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model, and launched a public preview of the Meta Model API, its first paid API, for U.S. developers. The new model, tuned for agentic tasks, coding and long-running workflows, is immediately available in the "Thinking" mode of the Meta AI app and meta.ai. (announcement)

July 9, 2026 · Meta

Muse Spark 1.1 Arrives — and Meta Opens Its First Paid API

A closed, multimodal reasoning model tuned for agentic tasks, coding and long-running workflows — launched with an aggressively priced developer API in U.S. preview. A turning point from open weights toward commercial monetization.

$1.25

per 1M input tokens

$4.25

per 1M output tokens

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$20

free credit, new accounts

Benchmark scores

Agentic strength on tool-use tests

88.1

MCP Atlas

62.1

Humanity's Last Exam (w/ tools)

57.2

Finance Agent v2

Matches or beats Gemini 3.1 Pro, Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 in some areas · trails on parts of SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.1.

What's new

Native image, video & document handling
Tool calling + multi-agent orchestration
Self-managed context across long sessions
Live now in Meta AI "Thinking" mode

The bigger race

Cursor building a general-purpose agent to rival Claude Cowork
IDE hands-on editing vs autonomous CLI agents splitting the field
Low-cost models + general agents intensify competition

A rare balance of price and performance — praised as a strong agentic foundation.

Early partners at Replit and Cline highlight the pricing edge for large-scale agentic workloads, while Meta reports daily internal use in coding and research.

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