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MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro vs Meta: Muse Spark Open

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-10-24.

MoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 Pro Meta: Muse Spark Open
Vendormoonshotaimeta
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score95.163.9
Input Price$2.00/M$1.25/M
Output Price$10.00/M$4.25/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output943,718943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index90.964.1

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Muse Spark Open costs $2.31 and Kimi K3.1 Pro costs $4.50, so Muse Spark Open is about 1.9 times cheaper for the same work.

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

Only Muse Spark Open offers audio input.

On our blended benchmark score Kimi K3.1 Pro leads 95.1 to 63.9.

Across the 19 tasks where they differ, Kimi K3.1 Pro scores higher on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others), Muse Spark Open on 3 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling).

Pick Kimi K3.1 Pro if you need benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Muse Spark Open 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.

Who wins by task?

TaskMoonshotAI: Kimi K3.1 ProMeta: Muse Spark Open
SQL Generation 143 141
Code Review 149 144
Code Completion 119 120
Code Refactoring 150 146
Bug Fixing 153 148
Unit Test Generation 134 131
Code Documentation 137 136
Regex Writing 126 125
CI/CD Pipelines 130 127
Frontend Component Design 132 129
Data Analysis 137 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 136 136
ETL Scripting 140 137
JSON Extraction 121 122
Bulk Data Labeling 118 120
OCR / Document Parsing 135 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 134
Long-Document Summarization 151 147
Blog Post Writing 131 129

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

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