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DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest vs Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-27.

DeepSeek: DeepSeek Flash Latest Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor
Vendor~deepseekmeta
Quality Score100100
Input Price$0.04/M$0.10/M
Output Price$0.29/M$0.20/M
Context Window1,048,5761,048,576
Max Output384,000943,718
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio-✓

The verdict

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, DeepSeek Flash Latest costs $0.11 and Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor costs $0.15, so DeepSeek Flash Latest is about 1.4 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor offers audio input and video input.

Pick DeepSeek Flash Latest if you need lower cost; pick Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor if you need audio input or video input.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.

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