Muse Spark 1.1 vs Muse Spark 1.3

$1.38 / task
Wins 0 of 5 benchmarks
$1.37 / task
Wins 4 of 5 benchmarks
Humanity's Last Exam Humanity's Last Exam: Very hard expert questions across many fields, written to stump today’s models
Muse Spark 1.146.2
Muse Spark 1.347.5
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Muse Spark 1.16.1
Muse Spark 1.316.7
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Muse Spark 1.138.8
Muse Spark 1.356.8
Arena Text · creative writing Arena Text · creative writing: Human pairwise preferences in the stated text vote pool
Muse Spark 1.11,444
Muse Spark 1.3 · max1,461
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Muse Spark 1.1—
Muse Spark 1.382

Specs

SpecMuse Spark 1.1Muse Spark 1.3
Input, per 1M$1.25$1.25
Output, per 1M$4.25$4.25
Cost per task?$1.38$1.37
Speed, tok/s280273
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedJul 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartial✓
Hear audio——
Watch video✓✓
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartial—
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code??
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Muse Spark 1.1 → Muse Spark 1.3
Only auto tool_choice is supported›

tool_choice none, required or a named function returns HTTP 400; use auto and handle either a tool call or text.

Search filters return HTTP 400 · Messages API›

allowed_domains, blocked_domains and max_uses return HTTP 400 on Messages search grounding; omit them and use the supported web_search tool.

Manual budget does not set effort · Messages API›

Compatibility budget_tokens does not set reasoning effort; use output_config.effort for depth control.

No Chat Completions search grounding · Chat Completions›

Search grounding is unavailable in Chat Completions; use Responses or Messages.

Reasoning cannot be disabled›

Muse Wonder and Muse Spark do not support disabling reasoning with none; keep reasoning enabled.

Private reasoning still costs tokens›

Private reasoning consumes the output budget and billed output tokens; budget for it even though it is absent from the response body.

Muse Spark 1.3 → Muse Spark 1.1
Only n=1 · Meta / Chat Completions›

Requests with n greater than 1 return HTTP 400; request one completion at a time.

Chat Completions cannot carry reasoning · Meta / Chat Completions›

For external keys, Chat Completions redacts reasoning_content to empty and cannot carry reasoning across turns; use Responses when continuity matters.