[Muse Spark 1.2 Budget Edition Launched: OpenCode Temporarily Free] Beating AI News: Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor version is rapidly being rolled out to third-party platforms. After the latest integration with OpenRouter, the pricing remains consistent with Meta's official rates: $0.10 per million tokens for input, $0.20 for output, and just $0.002 for cached input. In comparison, the standard Muse Spark 1.2 costs $1.25, $4.25, and $0.15 respectively. The Contributor version is not a downgraded model. It uses the same model and capabilities, with the trade-off being that users' inputs and outputs may be utilized by Meta for training and improving their products. Based on output pricing, it is approximately 95% cheaper than the standard version. It is already available on several platforms. OpenCode Zen has even made the Contributor version temporarily free. Command Code has also integrated it, allowing access even with the lowest-tier Go plan. Vercel AI Gateway and NanoGPT also provide APIs, with Vercel enabling direct connections to tools like Claude Code, Codex, Hermes, OpenCode, and OpenClaw. Artificial Analysis recently rated the Intelligence Index of Muse Spark 1.2 xhigh at 57. This pricing is undeniably extremely low, but community feedback has been polarized. Some see it as a budget alternative to DeepSeek V4 Flash, while others report that it remains unreliable for long tasks and tool integrations. It is suitable for open-source code and low-cost experiments, but for private code, users should first consider whether they are comfortable sharing their data with Meta. [Original Link]