{"slug": "meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price", "title": "Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up", "summary": "Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1 API at $4.25 per million output tokens, undercutting competitors including Grok 4.5, OpenAI, and Anthropic. The aggressive pricing intensifies the AI price war, putting pressure on pure-play AI labs burning through billions.", "body_md": "Meta is entering the AI API business with Muse Spark 1.1 at prices that undercut even the dirt-cheap Grok 4.5, released just yesterday. At $4.25 per million output tokens, Meta charges a fraction of what Anthropic or OpenAI ask. For pure-play AI labs burning through billions, the pressure just got worse.\n\nThe article [Meta's Muse Spark 1.1 API pricing squeezes OpenAI and Anthropic as the AI price war heats up](https://the-decoder.com/metas-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price-war-heats-up/) appeared first on [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price", "canonical_source": "https://the-decoder.com/metas-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price-war-heats-up/", "published_at": "2026-07-09 16:58:44+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-09 17:09:49.330068+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Meta", "Muse Spark 1.1", "OpenAI", "Anthropic", "Grok 4.5"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/meta-s-muse-spark-1-1-api-pricing-squeezes-openai-and-anthropic-as-the-ai-price.jsonld"}}