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DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.1

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-06.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Vendordeepseekmeta
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score57.755.7
Input Price$0.22/M$1.25/M
Output Price$0.65/M$4.25/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output262,144943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index57.555.7

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp costs $0.38 and Muse Spark 1.1 costs $2.31, so DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp is about 6.1 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.

On our blended benchmark score DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp leads 57.7 to 55.7.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp was released in August 2026 and Muse Spark 1.1 in July 2026.

Pick DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp if you need lower cost, benchmark performance 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 V4 Flash Vision ExpMeta: Muse Spark 1.1
SQL Generation 140 140
Code Review 142 142
Code Completion 133 120
Code Refactoring 145 144
Bug Fixing 146 146
Unit Test Generation 130 130
Code Documentation 137 135
Regex Writing 125 124
CI/CD Pipelines 126 126
Frontend Component Design 128 128
Data Analysis 132 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 135
ETL Scripting 136 135
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 133 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 133 133
Long-Document Summarization 147 146
Short-Form Summarization 126 117
Blog Post Writing 128 128

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

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