Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 Hits Pareto Frontier at 1/6th the Cost of Claude
ArtificialAnlys · x · 2026-08-07
Artificial Analysis reports that Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 places perfectly on the Cost per Task Pareto frontier. It scores only 6 points below Claude Opus 5 but at roughly one-sixth of the cost.
At Meta's pricing of $1.25/$4.25 per 1M tokens, Muse Spark 1.2 (xhigh) delivers intelligence comparable to Claude Opus 4.8 (max) at a fifth of the cost per task. It also significantly undercuts GPT-5.6 and Kimi K3 max-tier variants on the Intelligence Index.
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