Muse Spark 1.3 benchmarks
Muse Spark 1.3 is a proprietary model from Meta, released 2 Sep 2026. It ranks 5th of 51 on our overall leaderboard and 6th of 51 for reasoning. At A$2.81 per million tokens (blended), it costs about 1.3× cheaper than the median model we track. It writes about 248 tokens a second, and answers start after 35 s on average, thinking included. None of the major cloud platforms offer it in an Australian region yet.
- CONTEXT WINDOW
- 1,048,576 tokens
- INPUT
- text, image, video, audio
- WEIGHTS
- Proprietary
- RELEASED
- 2 Sep 2026
- OUTPUT SPEED
- 248 tok/s
- ANSWER STARTS AFTER
- 35 s (thinking included)
Muse Spark 1.3 across our rankings.
Benchmark results.
Independent test scores are for the max effort setting. “Among tracked” ranks Muse Spark 1.3 against the 51 models on this site; LMArena ranks run across its full leaderboard.
| BENCHMARK | RESULT | AMONG TRACKED | SOURCE DETAIL |
|---|---|---|---|
| INDEPENDENT TESTS · ARTIFICIAL ANALYSIS | |||
| AA Intelligence Index | 48.1 | #6 of 51 | max effort |
| AA Coding Index | 75.8 | #12 of 42 | max effort |
| GPQA Diamond | 93.5% | #8 of 44 | max effort |
| Humanity’s Last Exam | 48.7% | #8 of 51 | max effort |
| AA-LCR | 83.0% | #12 of 51 | max effort |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 84.3% | #14 of 42 | max effort |
| τ²-Bench (banking) | 50.5% | #2 of 41 | max effort |
| SciCode | 58.8% | #8 of 46 | max effort |
| BLIND HUMAN VOTES · LMARENA | |||
| LMArena Text4,723 votes · ±9 | 1493 | #6 of 42 | #8 of 402 on LMArena · 13 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena WebDev5,239 votes · ±10 | 1657 | #6 of 45 | #8 of 129 on LMArena · 22 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena Vision1,804 votes · ±15 | 1294 | #5 of 33 | #6 of 152 on LMArena · 13 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena Document1,006 votes · ±18 | 1468 | #15 of 26 | #19 of 44 on LMArena · 13 Sep 2026 |
| LMArena Agent31,052 sessions | #15 | #13 of 37 | #15 of 46 on LMArena · 15 Sep 2026 |
What Muse Spark 1.3 costs in Australian dollars.
List prices converted at the snapshot’s RBA rate, excluding GST. Reasoning models are billed for their thinking as output tokens, so heavier settings cost more than the job estimates show.
| PER MILLION TOKENS | AUD | USD LIST |
|---|---|---|
| Input tokens | A$1.75 | US$1.25 |
| Output tokens | A$5.97 | US$4.25 |
| Blended (3 in : 1 out) | A$2.81 | US$2.00 |
| JOB | COST (AUD) | MEDIAN MODEL |
|---|---|---|
| Customer support replyPER 1,000 REPLIES | A$5.30 | ≈ A$6.58 |
| Summarise a 30-page documentPER 100 DOCUMENTS | A$3.99 | ≈ A$4.74 |
| Agentic coding taskPER 10 TASKS | A$3.11 | ≈ A$3.72 |
| SETTING | INTELLIGENCE | A$ / 1M | SPEED |
|---|---|---|---|
| max effort | 48.1 | A$2.81 | 248 tok/s |
| xhigh effort | 45.1 | A$2.81 | 337 tok/s |
Running Muse Spark 1.3 in Australia.
None of the major cloud platforms offer it in an Australian region yet. How the platforms compare →
| PLATFORM | AVAILABILITY | DETAIL |
|---|---|---|
| AWS Bedrock · Sydney | NOT OFFERED | |
| AWS Bedrock · Melbourne | NOT OFFERED | |
| Azure · Australia East | NOT OFFERED | |
| Google Vertex AI · Sydney | NOT OFFERED |
Compare it with.
Muse Spark 1.3, answered.
How much does Muse Spark 1.3 cost in Australian dollars?
Muse Spark 1.3 lists at US$1.25 per million input tokens and US$4.25 per million output tokens — A$1.75 and A$5.97 at A$1 = US$0.7123 (RBA, 22 Sep 2026), excluding GST. A typical customer support reply works out at about A$5.30 per 1,000 replies, before any reasoning tokens.
Can I use Muse Spark 1.3 in Australia with data kept onshore?
None of the major cloud platforms offer it in an Australian region yet. Availability comes from the cloud providers’ own documentation; check your provider’s current terms before relying on it for data-residency obligations.
Is Muse Spark 1.3 good for coding?
It ranks 6th of 42 on our coding ranking, with an Artificial Analysis Coding Index of 75.8 and an LMArena WebDev rating of 1657 (8th of 129). The current leader is Claude Fable 5.1.
How good is Muse Spark 1.3 at agent and automation work?
It ranks 5th of 41 on our agents ranking, completing 50.5% of τ²-Bench banking customer-service tasks and 84.3% of Terminal-Bench 2.1 tasks.
How fast is Muse Spark 1.3?
Artificial Analysis measures Muse Spark 1.3 at about 248 tok/s of output, with the answer starting after 35 s on average once thinking time is included (max effort setting).
What is Muse Spark 1.3’s context window?
Meta documents a context window of 1,048,576 tokens (1M). On AA-LCR, which tests reasoning across ~100,000-token document sets, it scores 83.0%.
Ratings: LMArena leaderboard dataset (CC BY 4.0), rescaled for the lens scores · leaderboards to 22 Sep 2026
Evaluations, prices and speed: Artificial Analysis (artificialanalysis.ai) · fetched 23 Sep 2026
Exchange rate: Reserve Bank of Australia, table F11.1 · A$1 = US$0.7123 on 22 Sep 2026 · prices exclude GST
Snapshot 23 Sep 2026 · updated weekly · How the rankings work →