Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 vs xAI: Grok Latest
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 | xAI: Grok Latest | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | meta | ~x-ai |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | - | 10.9 |
| Input Price | $1.25/M | $2.00/M |
| Output Price | $4.25/M | $6.00/M |
| Context Window | 1,048,576 | 500,000 |
| Max Output | 943,718 | 450,000 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | - | 12.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Muse Spark 1.2 costs $2.31 and Grok Latest costs $3.50, so Muse Spark 1.2 is about 1.5 times cheaper for the same work.
Muse Spark 1.2 reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 750 pages for Grok Latest.
Only Muse Spark 1.2 offers video input.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Spark 1.2 scores higher on 3 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling), Grok Latest on 17 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Muse Spark 1.2 was released in August 2026 and Grok Latest in July 2026.
Pick Muse Spark 1.2 if you need lower cost, long documents or video input; pick Grok Latest 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?
| Task | Meta: Muse Spark 1.2 | xAI: Grok Latest |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 133 | 134 |
| Code Review | 132 | 134 |
| Code Completion | 118 | 118 |
| Code Refactoring | 136 | 138 |
| Bug Fixing | 136 | 138 |
| Unit Test Generation | 124 | 125 |
| Code Documentation | 130 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 118 | 119 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 120 | 121 |
| Frontend Component Design | 122 | 123 |
| Data Analysis | 124 | 125 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 133 | 133 |
| ETL Scripting | 128 | 129 |
| JSON Extraction | 122 | 122 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 120 | 119 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 131 | 131 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 131 | 131 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 137 | 139 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 114 | 115 |
| Blog Post Writing | 121 | 122 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →