Cohere: Command A+ vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.3
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.
| Cohere: Command A+ | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | cohere | meta |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Benchmark Score | 17.4 | 82.3 |
| Input Price | $0.30/M | $1.25/M |
| Output Price | $1.50/M | $4.25/M |
| Context Window | 192,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output | 64,000 | 943,718 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | ✓ |
| Benchmark Scores | ||
| ai_index | 21.7 | 79.4 |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Command A+ costs $0.68 and Muse Spark 1.3 costs $2.31, so Command A+ is about 3.4 times cheaper for the same work.
Muse Spark 1.3 reads up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text, against about 288 pages for Command A+.
Only Muse Spark 1.3 offers audio input and video input.
On our blended benchmark score Muse Spark 1.3 leads 82.3 to 17.4.
Across the 20 tasks where they differ, Command A+ scores higher on 4 (Code Completion, JSON Extraction, Bulk Data Labeling and others), Muse Spark 1.3 on 16 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Refactoring and others).
Pick Command A+ if you need lower cost; pick Muse Spark 1.3 if you need long documents, audio input, video input, benchmark performance or the stronger all-round task scores.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Cohere: Command A+ | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 |
|---|---|---|
| SQL Generation | 132 | 143 |
| Code Review | 127 | 147 |
| Code Completion | 127 | 120 |
| Code Refactoring | 127 | 148 |
| Bug Fixing | 131 | 151 |
| Unit Test Generation | 122 | 133 |
| Code Documentation | 125 | 138 |
| Regex Writing | 121 | 126 |
| CI/CD Pipelines | 118 | 129 |
| Frontend Component Design | 124 | 131 |
| Data Analysis | 127 | 135 |
| CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup | 126 | 136 |
| ETL Scripting | 122 | 139 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 122 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 120 |
| OCR / Document Parsing | 127 | 135 |
| Table Extraction from PDFs | 127 | 135 |
| Long-Document Summarization | 128 | 150 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 124 | 118 |
| Blog Post Writing | 120 | 131 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →