As of August 20, 2026, Muse Spark 1.2 is 54% cheaper per million tokens than Grok-2. Grok-2 is $2.00 / $10.00 per million input/output tokens versus Muse Spark 1.2 at $1.25 / $4.25. Sources: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://llama.meta.com/
Sources: xAI API pricing (https://docs.x.ai/docs/models); Meta pricing (https://llama.meta.com/)
Grok-2
xAI
Input
$2.00
Output
$10.00
Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
Input
$1.25
Output
$4.25
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Grok-2Muse Spark 1.2Verdict
Muse Spark 1.2 offers both lower pricing and stronger benchmark performance across the board, making it the clear value leader in this comparison.
As of August 20, 2026, Muse Spark 1.2 is 54% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens ($5.50 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Grok-2 costs $2.00 / $10.00 per million tokens ($12.00 blended). Sources: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://llama.meta.com/. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Grok-2 xAI API pricing is $2.00 input and $10.00 output per million tokens via xAI. Muse Spark 1.2 Meta API pricing is $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens via Meta. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Muse Spark 1.2 has a published SWE-bench Verified score of 86.6%. Grok-2 does not have that eval on this page yet.
Grok-2 supports a 128K token context window, while Muse Spark 1.2 supports 1M tokens. Muse Spark 1.2 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Muse Spark 1.2 leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks versus Grok-2's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Both Grok-2 and Muse Spark 1.2 are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Muse Spark 1.2 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Yes. Call Grok-2 through xAI and Muse Spark 1.2 through Meta with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
List rates are the latest published xAI API pricing and Meta API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://docs.x.ai/docs/models and https://llama.meta.com/. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
Grok-2 supports up to 8K output tokens per request, while Muse Spark 1.2 supports up to 131K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Grok-2 runs at approximately 85 tokens/second while Muse Spark 1.2 runs at 22.636101613788817 tokens/second. Grok-2 is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Grok-2 or Muse Spark 1.2 from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
This comparison covers API pricing, context window, throughput, and benchmark scores. Grok-2 costs $2.00/M input and $10.00/M output. Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25/M input and $4.25/M output.
Rank both on the LLM leaderboard, SWE-bench, and Humanity's Last Exam.
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