Meta

Meta has positioned itself as the champion of open-source AI. Their Llama 4 family includes Scout (with a record 10 million token context window) and Maverick (which competes with proprietary mid-tier models on benchmarks), all free to download and self-host under the Llama Community License. On July 9, 2026 Meta shifted strategy with Muse Spark 1.1, its first paid API model, opened to US developers at $1.25 input / $4.25 output per 1M tokens, roughly a quarter of OpenAI and Anthropic list rates. Muse Spark 1.1 is a multimodal reasoning model built for agentic and coding work, with a 1M self-managed context window, native primary-agent and subagent orchestration, and MCP support. It tops tool-use benchmarks (88.1 on MCP Atlas) though it trails the leaders on pure coding accuracy. Meta remains the most important player for teams that need on-premise deployments, fine-tuning, or zero marginal inference cost, and now also competes on low-cost hosted agentic inference.