As of August 20, 2026, Nova Micro is 97% cheaper per million tokens than Muse Spark 1.2. Muse Spark 1.2 is $1.25 / $4.25 per million input/output tokens versus Nova Micro at $0.03 / $0.14. Sources: https://llama.meta.com/ and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing
Sources: Meta pricing (https://llama.meta.com/); AnotherWrapper LLM pricing (https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing)
Muse Spark 1.2
Meta
Input
$1.25
Output
$4.25
Nova Micro
Amazon
Input
$0.03
Output
$0.14
Token pricing, specs, and benchmarks side by side
Muse Spark 1.2Nova MicroVerdict
Both models are closely matched on benchmarks. Nova Micro has the pricing advantage, making it the better value unless Muse Spark 1.2's specific capabilities are critical to your workflow.
As of August 20, 2026, Nova Micro is 97% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Nova Micro costs $0.03 per million input tokens and $0.14 per million output tokens ($0.17 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25 / $4.25 per million tokens ($5.50 blended). Sources: https://llama.meta.com/ and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
Muse Spark 1.2 Meta API pricing is $1.25 input and $4.25 output per million tokens via Meta. Nova Micro Amazon API pricing is $0.03 input and $0.14 output per million tokens via Amazon. 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%. Nova Micro does not have that eval on this page yet.
Muse Spark 1.2 supports a 1M token context window, while Nova Micro supports 128K 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.
Shared benchmark scores for Muse Spark 1.2 and Nova Micro are still limited. Check the comparison table for the evals each model has published. 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 Muse Spark 1.2 and Nova Micro are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Nova Micro 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 Muse Spark 1.2 through Meta and Nova Micro through Amazon 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 Meta API pricing and Amazon API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://llama.meta.com/ and https://anotherwrapper.com/tools/llm-pricing. 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.
Muse Spark 1.2 supports up to 131K output tokens per request, while Nova Micro supports up to 128K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Muse Spark 1.2 runs at approximately 22.636101613788817 tokens/second while Nova Micro runs at 100 tokens/second. Nova Micro 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 Muse Spark 1.2 or Nova Micro 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. Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25/M input and $4.25/M output. Nova Micro costs $0.03/M input and $0.14/M output.
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