Muse Spark 1.3
Muse Spark 1.3 is Meta's September 2, 2026 hosted model for long-horizon agentic and coding work. The API ID is muse-spark-1.3, with a 1,048,576-token context window, text/image/video/PDF input, and text output.
Provider
Meta
Model family
Meta Muse
Hosted multimodal coding and agentic LLM
Cost tier
Spark
Status
Current
Release Sep 2, 2026
Why teams choose it
Standard-tier pricing matches Spark 1.2: $1.25 input / $0.15 cached / $4.25 output per 1M tokens
Contributor IDs (muse-spark-1.3-contributor) are $0.10 / $0.002 / $0.20 and permit training on prompts and completions.
Meta says 1.3 uses about 20% fewer tool calls and 25% fewer tokens than 1.2 in internal…
engineer comparisons; rematch on your harness.
Audio understanding on 1.3 is not fully supported; Meta tells teams to use Spark 1.2 or…
Muse Voice Transcribe for audio.
Tradeoffs to know
- Weights are not open; the announced Muse Spark open-weight release is still a roadmap item, not this checkpoint.
- Max reasoning is Standard-tier only. Muse Code docs still default to muse-spark-1.2 until you change the model.
- Contributor-tier data-use terms are not the Standard privacy path.
When not to use this
- Not ideal for simple tasks where cheaper models in the same lineup are good enough.
- Avoid for regulated or high-stakes outputs without evaluations that mimic your tooling, data, and review process.
- Pair catalog notes with comparisons and your own benchmarks before declaring a routing winner.
Technical specs
- Inputs
- text, image, video, PDF
- Outputs
- text
- Capabilities
- coding, long-horizon agents, tool calling, reasoning, planning, multitasking, structured outputs, search grounding, image understanding, video understanding
- License
- Proprietary API
- Model string
muse-spark-1-3
Benchmarks
{
"api_id": "muse-spark-1.3",
"source": "https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-spark-1-3",
"context_tokens": 1048576,
"vendor_reported": true
}Meta Muse family lineup
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Muse Spark 1.3 FAQ
What is Muse Spark 1.3?
Muse Spark 1.3 is Meta's September 2, 2026 hosted model for long-horizon agentic and coding work. The API ID is muse-spark-1.3, with a 1,048,576-token context window, text/image/video/PDF input, and text output. Meta documents it in Muse Code and Meta Model API, with reasoning effort including max on the Standard tier...
When does Muse Spark 1.3 fit best?
Long-horizon coding agents in Muse Code and custom harnesses
What should teams watch out for with Muse Spark 1.3?
Weights are not open; the announced Muse Spark open-weight release is still a roadmap item, not this checkpoint.
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