Muse Spark 1.3: Meta reaches the frontier

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Meta has released Muse Spark 1.3, their fourth Muse Spark model release in five months. Muse Spark 1.3 (max), which is in limited preview for Meta's partners, scores 62 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, behind only Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Opus 5. The variant available now, Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh), scores 61 and ties with GPT-5.6 Sol (max) and Grok 4.6 (high). Both variants' gains come primarily from improvements in agentic work and scientific capabilities

Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) enters the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 61, up 4 points from Muse Spark 1.2 (57, August) and 8 points from Muse Spark 1.1 (53, July). It enters tied with GPT-5.6 Sol (max), Grok 4.6 (high), and Claude Opus 5 (high), and behind Claude Fable 5.1 (max, 66), Claude Opus 5 (max, 63), and Claude Fable 5 (max, 62)

Muse Spark 1.3 (max), which is in a limited preview stage, lands at 62. This higher index score is enabled by gains vs. Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) in Tau3-Bench Banking (52% vs. 47%) and GDPval-AA v2 (1,754 Elo vs. 1,709). Muse Spark 1.3 (max) is second only to Claude's Fable and Opus variants in total score

Key takeaways:

➤ Continued improvement on agentic knowledge work tasks. At the launch of Muse Spark 1.2, we noted its significant gains in agentic knowledge work performance vs. Muse Spark 1.1. The latest iteration continues this trend, with Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) demonstrating a notable 12-point gain vs. Muse Spark 1.2 in Tau3-Bench Banking (35% to 47%), a 5-point gain in Terminal-Bench 2.1 (80% to 85%), and a new GDPval-AA v2 Elo of 1709 against its predecessor's 1615. Muse Spark 1.3 (max) improves further on Tau3-Bench Banking (52%) and GDPval-AA v2 (1,754 Elo). This Tau3-Bench Banking score is #1 among all models. Muse Spark 1.3 (max) achieves these higher agentic work scores by using more turns and total reasoning tokens, reasoning 62% more on GDPval-AA v2 and 28% more on Tau3-Bench Banking compared to Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)

➤ The lowest cost per task for any model at 59+ on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) costs $0.55 per Intelligence Index task at Meta's unchanged $1.25/$4.25 per 1M token pricing ($0.15 for cached input), with its peers GPT-5.6 Sol (max) and Grok 4.6 (high) costing $0.95 and $0.94 respectively, a 70%+ premium. This places Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) on the Pareto frontier for Intelligence vs. Cost per Task. Its cost per task is higher than Muse Spark 1.2 ($0.40 per task), driven by ~57% more input tokens per task on agentic evaluations, with output tokens up only ~8%. Pricing for Muse Spark 1.3 (max) is not yet publicly available

➤ Scientific Reasoning results rose across the board, led by CritPt. CritPt was the standout non-agentic score gain vs. Muse Spark 1.2, with a material +8 points for the xhigh variant (18% to 26%), and GPQA Diamond achieved +4 points (90% to 94%), while Humanity's Last Exam and SciCode each gained a more modest 2-3 points (45% to 47% and 56% to 59%, respectively). Muse Spark 1.3 (max) achieved roughly similar scores to the xhigh variant, gaining 2 points in Humanity's Last Exam, tying on GPQA Diamond, and losing a point on CritPt vs. Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)

➤ Minor regressions in only two evaluations. Both Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) and Muse Spark 1.3 (max) dropped 4 points in AA-LCR (83% to 79%) when compared to Muse Spark 1.2, and AA-Omniscience (Accuracy) fell 3 points for xhigh and 1 point for max. The drops in AA-Omniscience (Accuracy) are due to a higher abstention rate (not answering questions when unsure), which also lowered the hallucination rate for Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh)

Other model details (xhigh variant):

➤ Context window: 1M tokens, unchanged from Muse Spark 1.2

➤ Pricing: unchanged from Muse Spark 1.2: $1.25/$4.25 per 1M input/output tokens, with cache hits discounted to $0.15 per 1M

➤ Input modalities: text, image, video

➤ Availability: Meta's first-party API and Muse Code

Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) is the most cost-efficient model at its intelligence level: $0.55 per Intelligence Index task at Meta's unchanged $1.25/$4.25 per 1M token pricing. No model scoring 59 or above costs less per task. The nearest are Gemini 3.8 Flash (high, 59, $0.58), GPT-5.6 Sol (xhigh, 59, $0.63) and GLM-5.3 (max, 60, $0.68), while its direct peers at 61 cost far more: Grok 4.6 (high, $0.94), GPT-5.6 Sol (max, $0.95) and Claude Opus 5 (high, $1.23). Muse Spark 1.3 (max) is excluded from cost comparisons as Meta has not announced pricing for the limited release

The gains for Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) and Muse Spark 1.3 (max) over Muse Spark 1.2 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index are concentrated in agentic evaluations: GDPval-AA v2 +94 and +139 Elo (1615 to 1709 and 1754), Terminal-Bench 2.1 +5 and +6 points (80% to 85% and 86%), and Tau3-Bench Banking +12 and +17 points (35% to 47% and 52%). The minor regressions are 4 points in AA-LCR (83% to 79%) for both models, and a drop for each model in AA-Omniscience (Accuracy): 3 points for xhigh (45% to 42%) and 1 point for max (45% to 44%)

Muse Spark 1.3 (max) scores 52% on Tau3-Bench Banking, the new #1 performer on this evaluation. Muse Spark 1.3 (xhigh) scores 47%, level with Claude Fable 5.1 (max, 47%) and GLM-5.3-Flash (47%) and behind its sibling in addition to e.g. Qwen3.8 Max (51%), Grok 4.6 (high, 51%), and GLM-5.3 (max, 50%). The significant gains in this evaluation vs. Muse Spark 1.2 last month (35%) are the largest single driver of each Muse Spark 1.3 variant's improved Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index score

Full breakdown of the individual evaluations in the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index:

See Artificial Analysis for further details and benchmarks of Muse Spark 1.3: https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/muse-spark-1-3 and https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/muse-spark-1-3-xhigh