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DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.1

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Vendor~deepseekmeta
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.01/M$1.25/M
Output Price$0.50/M$4.25/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output943,718943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek Flash Latest costs $0.13 and Muse Spark 1.1 costs $2.31, so DeepSeek Flash Latest is about 17.7 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Muse Spark 1.1 offers video input.

Across the 10 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek Flash Latest scores higher on 10 (SQL Generation, Code Completion, Code Documentation and others).

DeepSeek Flash Latest was released in September 2026 and Muse Spark 1.1 in July 2026.

Pick DeepSeek Flash Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Muse Spark 1.1 if you need video input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

Who wins by task?

TaskDeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash LatestMeta: Muse Spark 1.1
SQL Generation 133 133
Code Completion 131 118
Code Documentation 131 130
Regex Writing 119 118
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 133
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
Long-Document Summarization 137 137
Short-Form Summarization 123 114
Blog Post Writing 121 121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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