Neither wins outright: Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) is the pick when you need audio input, Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor when cost matters at scale.
| Spec | Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Input price (per 1M tokens) | $0.25 | $0.10 |
| Output price (per 1M tokens) | $1.50 | $0.20 |
| Blended price (3:1 input/output) | $0.56 | $0.13 |
| Cheaper than … of all models we track | 50% | 77% |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens (~1,573 pages) | 1.0M tokens (~1,573 pages) |
| Larger context than … of all models | 80% | 80% |
| Max output per response | 66K tokens (~49,200 words) | 944K tokens (~707,800 words) |
| Input types | text, image, file, audio, video | text, image, video, file |
| Output types | text | text |
| Free variant | No | No |
| Listed since | 2025-12-17 | 2026-09-02 |
Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.
| Workload (per month) | Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer-support chatbot 50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens) | $48.75 | $11.50 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor saves $37.25 |
| RAG search over documents 20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens) | $45.00 | $14.00 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor saves $31.00 |
| Coding / tool-using agent 2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens) | $48.00 | $14.40 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor saves $33.60 |
| Batch summarisation 10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens) | $29.00 | $9.20 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor saves $19.80 |
| Long-document analysis 500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens) | $14.00 | $5.20 | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor saves $8.80 |
| Capability | Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) | Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor | What it lets you do |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tool / function calling | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | call your APIs and run agent loops |
| Structured output (JSON schema) | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | return JSON that validates against your schema |
| Reasoning / thinking mode | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems |
| Image input | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | read screenshots, charts and scanned pages |
| Audio input | ✓ Yes | — | take speech or audio directly |
| File / PDF input | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | accept documents without your own parsing step |
| Image output | — | — | generate images, not just text |
| Built-in web search | ✓ Yes | ✓ Yes | answer from live web results |
| Seed (reproducible sampling) | ✓ Yes | — | repeat a generation for tests and evals |
| Log-probabilities | — | — | read token confidence for classification and scoring |
From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.
Neither wins outright: Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) is the pick when you need audio input, Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor when cost matters at scale. In short: Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) when you need audio input, you need seed (reproducible sampling); Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor when cost matters at scale, you generate long outputs in one go, you want the newer model.
Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor is cheaper: $0.13 vs $0.56 per 1M tokens at a typical 3:1 input/output mix, 78% less. For 50,000 support conversations a month that is $11.50 against $48.75.
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) costs $0.25 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens; Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor costs $0.10 input and $0.20 output. Output tokens are billed separately, so long answers shift the gap.
Both take 1.0M tokens per request — roughly 1,573 pages of text.
Tool calling — Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch): yes, Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: yes. JSON-schema structured output — Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch): yes, Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor: yes.
Yes, both accept image input.
No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) can write up to 66K tokens (about 49,200 words) per response; Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor up to 944K (about 707,800 words).
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview (batch) was listed on 2025-12-17; Meta: Muse Spark 1.3 Contributor on 2026-09-02.
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