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 — Meta
Muse Spark 1.3 is the latest version of Meta's Muse Spark model, released on September 2, 2026 and tuned for agentic workflows and coding. It takes text, image, video, audio and PDF input and returns text, with reasoning effort up to 'max'. Meta says audio input is not yet fully supported.
Model B — Alibaba
Qwen3.8-Max is a native vision-language model from Alibaba’s Qwen team, which Qwen calls its flagship, a 2.4-trillion-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with hybrid thinking (on by default) and a 1M-token context window. Its open-weight counterpart, Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, has 95B activated parameters.
| Property | Muse Spark 1.3 | Qwen3.8-Max |
|---|---|---|
| Released | Sep 2, 2026 | Aug 3, 2026 |
| Developer | Meta | Alibaba |
| Type | multimodal | multimodal |
| License | proprietary | open-weight |
| Context window | 1,048,576 | — |
| Parameters | — | 2.4T total (MoE); open-weight base Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B: 2.4T total, 95B activated |
| Developer status | — | — |
| Input $/M tokens | $1.25 | $2.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $4.25 | $6.00 |
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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