Muse Spark 1.2 vs Muse Spark 1.3

$0.97 / task
Wins 2 of 5 benchmarks
$1.37 / task
Wins 1 of 5 benchmarks
MMMU-Pro (vision) MMMU-Pro (vision): College-level questions that require understanding images: charts, diagrams, photos
Muse Spark 1.2—
Muse Spark 1.382
Chartography Chartography: Expert chart reasoning over professional scientific, medical, financial and engineering charts
Muse Spark 1.232.1
Muse Spark 1.327.6
GDP.pdf · AA all-pass GDP.pdf · AA all-pass: Models reason over professional PDF documents; an attempt passes only when every atomic criterion passes
Muse Spark 1.217.4
Muse Spark 1.324.2
Arena Vision · overall Arena Vision · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated vision vote pool
Muse Spark 1.21,304.2
Muse Spark 1.31,301.8
Arena Document · overall Arena Document · overall: Human pairwise preferences in the stated document vote pool
Muse Spark 1.2—
Muse Spark 1.3 · max1,470.7

Specs

SpecMuse Spark 1.2Muse Spark 1.3
Input, per 1M$1.25$1.25
Output, per 1M$4.25$4.25
Cost per task?$0.97$1.37
Speed, tok/s355273
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedAug 2026Sep 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFs✓✓
Hear audio——
Watch video✓✓
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool call——
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web✓✓
Run code??
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Muse Spark 1.2 → 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 1.2
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.

Reasoning cannot be disabled›

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