AI Model Comparison
Side-by-side comparison of pricing, context window, benchmarks, capabilities, and license. Every figure comes from the developer's own pages, last checked on ; each model's page lists its sources. A figure we could not source shows as a dash.
Model A — DeepSeek
DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is an update to DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, released on October 17, 2026, that DeepSeek says scores higher on its benchmarks, finishes tasks faster and writes shorter outputs. It takes text and image input and is served on the DeepSeek API as deepseek-flash, with open weights under the MIT License.
Model B — Meta
Muse Spark Open is an open-weight mixture-of-experts model from Meta, released on October 15, 2026, with 816B total and 42B active parameters. It takes text, image, video and audio input and returns text. Meta's own Model API does not serve it: it is self-hosted or run through hosted providers.
| Property | DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Oct 17, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Developer | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | open-weight | open-weight |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Parameters | — | 816B total, 42B active (mixture of experts) |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $0.30 | — |
| Output $/M tokens | $1.20 | — |
Bold green values indicate the winner on that dimension where comparison is meaningful (lower price wins; bigger context wins; more open license wins; newer date wins). Prices are the ones each developer lists today; a model it no longer prices has none.
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