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Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor vs SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5

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

Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor SpaceXAI: Grok 4.5
Vendormetax-ai
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-65.0
Input Price$0.10/M$2.00/M
Output Price$0.20/M$6.00/M
Context Window1,048,576500,000
Max Output943,718450,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-64.0

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 Grok 4.5 costs $3.50, so Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor is about 23.3 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 750 pages for Grok 4.5.

Only Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor offers video input.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Grok 4.5 on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).

Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor was released in August 2026 and Grok 4.5 in July 2026.

Pick Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor if you need lower cost, long documents or video input; pick Grok 4.5 if you need 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 ContributorSpaceXAI: Grok 4.5
SQL Generation 134 140
Code Review 132 144
Code Completion 131 119
Code Refactoring 136 146
Bug Fixing 136 148
Unit Test Generation 124 131
Code Documentation 131 136
Regex Writing 119 124
CI/CD Pipelines 120 127
Frontend Component Design 122 129
Data Analysis 124 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 134 135
ETL Scripting 128 137
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 119
OCR / Document Parsing 131 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 134
Long-Document Summarization 138 147
Short-Form Summarization 123 117
Blog Post Writing 122 128

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

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