Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says coding and agentic tasks were key focuses
THE SO WHAT
At $1.25 per 1M input and $4.25 per 1M output tokens, Muse Spark 1.1 is pricing itself as a workhorse for coding and agentic workloads — not just chat. If you’re building agents or dev tools, your unit economics now hinge on output-heavy tasks, so architect prompts and workflows to minimize waste tokens.
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