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title: "Is Muse Spark 1.3 still undominated? · Undominated.ai"
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description: "Muse Spark 1.3: whether it is still undominated. If anything in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, it is named, as of Sep 19, 2026. Unrated stays unrated."
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# Is Muse Spark 1.3 still undominated? · Undominated.ai

> Muse Spark 1.3: whether it is still undominated. If anything in this catalogue is both better and cheaper, it is named, as of Sep 19, 2026. Unrated stays unrated.

# Is Muse Spark 1.3 a good deal?

Whether anything in this catalogue beats Muse Spark 1.3 on both quality and price, and what you give up if it does. A computation on the current catalogue, not an opinion.

6 undominated of 137 · Sep 19, 2026

As of Sep 19, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher and costs less than Muse Spark 1.3 for Balanced on LMArena, but it is not a drop-in. You would give up: max output.

 Current model

Muse Spark 1.3

 Balanced

3 tokens in per 1 out

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 Monthly spend (USD) Used only to say how many months a named switching cost would take to earn back. Leave blank to skip. Switching cost (USD) 137 rated, priced standard models. Chartreuse is the frontier. Cobalt is the model you named, when it is not on the staircase.

Gemini 3.8 Flash scores 5.0 points higher and costs 25% less, but you would give up: max output.

 [Muse Spark 1.3](/models/meta__muse-spark-1.3/)

LMArena Elo

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1489.7

Effective $/M · Balanced

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$2.00/M

 [Gemini 3.8 Flash](/models/google__gemini-3.8-flash/)

LMArena Elo

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1494.7

Effective $/M · Balanced

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$1.50/M

Muse Spark 1.3 takes text, image, video, file, audio, returns up to 943,718 tokens from a 1,048,576-token context, and is listed by 1 seller.

Compared against 137 rated, priced models on this lens: nothing dominates it outright, 2 more dominate it but give something up. Muse Spark 1.3 scores 1489.7 at $2.00 per million tokens for this mix.

## Higher score, lower price, named losses

Not a drop-in. The loss is why these are not a recommendation.

| Model | LMArena | Effective $/M | You give up |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | 1494.7 | $1.50/M | max output |
| Gemini 3.7 Flash | 1490.5 | $1.50/M | max output |

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