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Mistral's 3B open-weights safety classifier ties the 20B leader on its own text-safety chart and runs on one 16GB GPU. What it does not give you is a reason, or a hosted endpoint.

Muse Code has no spend cap, and most tools that do give you one will not contain the agent. I compared nine alternatives on the dials that actually decide the switch.

SeedRealtime is ByteDance's audio-visual full-duplex model. Here is what it does, what ByteDance published, and what you can actually call today.

A hands-on read of Meta's terminal coding agent. The isolation and the audit log are the best parts, and every benchmark gain Meta showed was measured inside Meta's own harness.

Nothing on the Artificial Analysis board beats Muse Spark 1.2 for less money. So the real reason to leave is the weights Meta promised and has not shipped.

Meta Muse Code has no price, no plan, and no spend cap. Here is the real rate card, the three defaults that set your bill, and how to bring it down.

Meta Muse Spark 1.2 pricing is identical to 1.1, yet costs 37% more per task. Here is the full rate card, both tiers, and where the extra money actually goes.

xAI shipped Grok 4.6 with the same $2/$6 headline as 4.5. I went through what actually moved: the cache rate, the 200k cliff, and the hallucination number.

There is one benchmark built to test AI models on real customer service work, and its 2026 scores rank the models very differently from the leaderboards you have seen.