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Muse Spark 1.1 is the fastest model on the board and one of the weakest agentic performers on it. A review of which jobs those cheap tokens actually survive.

Meta's first paid model API ships a 1M-context agent model at $1.25/$4.25. What Muse Spark 1.1 is actually good at, and the benchmarks Meta left off the slide.

Muse Spark 1.1 lists at $1.25 in and $4.25 out per million tokens. Four separate meters decide your real bill, and the sticker is the smallest of them.

Claude Opus 5 tops the independent index by 1.8 points and costs 86x more per task than the model ten points below it. Eight alternatives, priced on measured cost per task.

Claude Opus 5 is not one model, it is five. A plain guide to the specs, the effort dial that decides your bill, and the two API changes that break old code.

Inkling-Small is cheap and quick, but its measured knowledge score is negative. Here are 8 Inkling-Small alternatives, with real prices and the catch on each one.

GPT-5.6 pricing after the July 30 cut: Sol, Terra and Luna rates, the four service tiers that multiply them, the 272K surcharge, cache math, and a bill calculator.

GPT-5.6 is OpenAI's Sol, Terra, and Luna family, generally available since July 9, 2026. Here's what each tier does, what it costs after the July 30 price cut, and where it fits in a support stack.

OpenAI cut Luna 80% on July 30, so price is no longer the reason to leave GPT-5.6. Here are 9 real alternatives and the four reasons buyers still switch.