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Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor vs Sakana: Sakana Namazu

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

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor Sakana: Sakana Namazu
Vendormetasakana
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.10/M$0.95/M
Output Price$0.20/M$4.00/M
Context Window1,048,576262,144
Max Output943,71865,536
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, Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor costs $0.15 and Sakana Namazu costs $1.95, so Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor is about 13.0 times cheaper for the same work.

Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 393 pages for Sakana Namazu.

Only Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor offers video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Pick Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor if you need lower cost, long documents, video 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?

TaskMeta: Muse Spark 1.2 ContributorSakana: Sakana Namazu
SQL Generation 134 130
Code Review 132 126
Code Completion 131 128
Code Refactoring 136 127
Bug Fixing 136 130
Unit Test Generation 124 121
Code Documentation 131 125
Regex Writing 119 119
CI/CD Pipelines 120 117
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 128
ETL Scripting 128 122
JSON Extraction 131 131
Bulk Data Labeling 129 128
OCR / Document Parsing 131 128
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 128
Long-Document Summarization 138 129
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 122 118

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

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