Muse Spark Open 816B A42b
Muse Spark Open 816B A42b is a Meta open-weights reasoning model, released 15 Oct 2026. Its best configuration (xhigh reasoning effort) ranks #166 of 761 on the BenchLeader Index at 57.4 ±6.8, in the upper half. The ± is the point: 311 other configurations score within that range, so they and this one cannot be told apart on quality alone — price and speed are what separate them. It scores highest in reasoning (64) and lowest in maths (60). At $2.00 per million tokens blended it is pricier than most ranked models. Last measured 15 Oct 2026.
- Blended price
- $2.00/M
- $1.25 in · $4.25 out
- Output speed
- –
- First answer
- –
- Context
- 1.0M
- Full answer
- –
- Cost per run
- –
- Released
- 15 Oct 2026
- Overall index57
- Reasoning64
- Maths60
- Knowledge62
Benchmark results
See all LLM benchmarks. One column per reasoning effort. Rank is among every configuration of every model on that benchmark. Hover a score for the run it came from.
Reasoning
| Benchmark | xhigh | Source |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 88.6%#57 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
Maths
| Benchmark | xhigh | Source |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3 | 69.8%#28 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 31.7%#35 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.1%#27 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
Knowledge
| Benchmark | xhigh | Source |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleQA Verified | 56.6%#19 | Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub |
What a task costs
Estimates from list price, output speed and time to first answer for the best configuration. “With caching” assumes three-quarters of the input is served from the prompt cache at $0.150 per 1M. Reasoning tokens are not modelled.
| Workload | Tokens in / out | Cost | With caching | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chat reply | 400 / 300 | $0.0018 | $0.0014 | – |
| Summarise a 30-page report | 12,000 / 600 | $0.018 | $0.0077 | – |
| Code edit | 6,000 / 1,500 | $0.014 | $0.0089 | – |
| Agentic coding session | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.092 | $0.043 | – |
| Structured extraction | 2,000 / 200 | $0.0034 | $0.0017 | – |
See also
Data as of 18 Oct 2026. Compare with another model.
Cite as: BenchLeader, “Muse Spark Open 816B A42b: benchmarks, pricing, speed and rank”, https://www.benchleader.com/models/muse-spark-open-816b-a42b, data as of 18 Oct 2026.