Meta Launches Paid AI Model: Muse Spark 1.1 Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid AI model, with pricing significantly lower than its competitors. This marks a strategic shift for the company.
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On Thursday, 10 July 2026, Meta launched its multimodal AI model Muse Spark 1.1 as a paid API service. The model is priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens. This pricing is approximately a quarter of what OpenAI and Anthropic charge for their flagship models.
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”Meta entered the paid AI model market on Thursday with Muse Spark 1.1, a multimodal reasoning model priced at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens — roughly one-quarter of what Anthropic and OpenAI charge for their current flagship models.”
”Until July 9, Meta's AI strategy was defined by giving models away. The Llama family — downloaded more than 1.2 billion times and averaging roughly one million downloads per day by early 2026 — reached developers as open weights, funded internally by advertising revenue.”
”In March 2026, Google told Meta it could no longer supply the full volume of Gemini AI capacity Meta had been purchasing, forcing the company to ration internal token usage and accelerate its reliance on its own models for content mo”
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The launch of Muse Spark 1.1 represents a significant pivot in Meta's AI strategy. Previously, Meta offered its models, such as the Llama family, as open source, funded via advertising revenue. By offering a closed, hosted, and token-based model, Meta is entering direct competition with the business models of OpenAI and Anthropic. This shift was partly driven by Google's decision in March 2026 to reduce the supply of Gemini AI capacity to Meta, forcing the company to rely more rapidly on its proprietary models.
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Developers using AI models for coding agents and other high-volume applications are directly affected by Meta's new price structure, as their operating costs could decrease significantly. Competitors OpenAI and Anthropic face increased price competition. While users of Meta's existing open models, like Llama, are not directly impacted, Meta's overarching AI strategy is shifting.
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Meta's Llama models have been downloaded over 1.2 billion times, averaging one million downloads per day in early 2026. This demonstrates a massive user base now witnessing Meta's first commercial AI model.
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