Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) costs $0.46 and Muse Spark 1.3 costs $2.31, so Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) is about 5.0 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 (batch) offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Muse Spark 1.3 leads 81.7 to 31.8.

Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Muse Spark 1.3 scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others).

Muse Spark 1.3 was released in September 2026 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) in July 2026.

Pick Muse Spark 1.3 if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) if you need lower cost or audio input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.