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Coding-focused Spark update available through Muse Code and the Meta Model API, with weights reportedly planned for release.
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Google held its token rates flat, but the measured cost of an Intelligence Index task rose from $0.40 to $0.58 while the score still trails Fable and Sol. Picking a model for agent work is now a pricing exercise.
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A 61 on Artificial Analysis's index no longer requires flagship pricing. That changes what agent workloads should cost this quarter. The same release also grew dearer than its own predecessor and slipped on two evaluations.
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Meta's terminal coding agent left beta on August 31 with plans from $5 to $50. That looks like a four-to-one discount on Codex and Claude Code seats, but line up the request bands and the gap narrows to two.
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Muse Spark 1.2 costs roughly 18 times less if Meta may train on your prompts. The deepest cut, 75x, sits on cached input, which is where an agent holding your codebase in context spends.
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Muse Glimmer ships as Apache 2.0 weights sized for a 24GB card. Muse Spark 1.2 stays on Muse Code and the Meta Model API. Plan capacity for two tiers, not one.
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