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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.1

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-22.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Meta: Muse Spark 1.1
Vendorgooglemeta
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score31.8-
Input Price$0.30/M$1.25/M
Output Price$2.50/M$4.25/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output65,536943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index36.6-

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs $0.93 and Muse Spark 1.1 costs $2.31, so Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is about 2.5 times cheaper for the same work.

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

Only Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite offers audio input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on 20 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite if you need lower cost, audio input or the stronger all-round task scores.

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?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteMeta: Muse Spark 1.1
SQL Generation 138 133
Code Review 139 132
Code Completion 132 118
Code Refactoring 141 136
Bug Fixing 143 136
Unit Test Generation 128 124
Code Documentation 134 130
Regex Writing 123 118
CI/CD Pipelines 124 120
Frontend Component Design 126 122
Data Analysis 129 124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 133
ETL Scripting 133 128
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 132 131
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 131
Long-Document Summarization 143 137
Short-Form Summarization 125 114
Blog Post Writing 126 121

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

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