Meta

Meta has positioned itself as the champion of open-source AI. Their Llama 4 family includes Scout (with a record 10 million token context window) and Maverick (which competes with proprietary mid-tier models on benchmarks), all free to download and self-host under the Llama Community License. On July 9, 2026 Meta shifted strategy with Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid API model, opened to US developers at $1.25 input / $4.25 output per 1M tokens, roughly a quarter of OpenAI and Anthropic list rates. On August 5, 2026 it followed with Muse Code, a terminal coding agent for macOS and Linux, and Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update co-trained inside the Muse Code harness. Standard 1.2 pricing holds at $1.25/$4.25, but the new muse-spark-1.2-contributor tier serves the same weights at $0.10/$0.20 in exchange for training rights on your data, currently the cheapest frontier-adjacent coding path on the market. Meta remains the most important player for teams that need on-premise deployments, fine-tuning, or zero marginal inference cost, and now also competes hard on low-cost hosted agentic inference.