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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Muse Spark 1.1

Compare Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite and Muse Spark 1.1 side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Object Detection, OCR, Open Prompt, and Classification.

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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Muse Spark 1.1 Comparison Table

Evals updated September 3, 2026Pricing updated September 3, 2026

PropertyGemini 2.5 Flash-LiteMuse Spark 1.1
OrganizationGoogleMeta
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2025Jul 2026
Context Window1.0M1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$0.100$1.25
Output $/1M$0.400$4.25
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
Object DetectionDemoDemo
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
OverallNot evaluated
80.5%
Avg cost / sample$0.0067
Avg speed / sample7.07s
By task
Object Detection (low)
60.6%
±1.9, Mean of 3 runs, range 58.4 to 62.1
$0.0097
Object Detection (high)
60.0%
±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 59.6 to 60.7
$0.015
Counting (low)
76.6%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 78.4
$0.0042
Counting (high)
76.1%
±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 77.0
$0.0079
Identification (low)
91.7%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 90.6 to 93.8
$0.0033
Identification (high)
89.6%
±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.5 to 90.6
$0.0065
OCR (low)
92.6%
±0.5, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.1 to 93.1
$0.0063
OCR (high)
92.8%
±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 92.6 to 93.2
$0.014
Data Extraction (low)
87.6%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 86.6 to 88.7
$0.0029
Data Extraction (high)
89.0%
±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.6 to 89.7
$0.0050
Reasoning (low)
74.2%
±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 72.2 to 75.5
$0.0061
Reasoning (high)
76.6%
±1.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.5 to 78.2
$0.013

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite vs Muse Spark 1.1: Overview

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, released for general availability on July 22, 2025, is the most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed for high-volume and latency-sensitive tasks. It is multimodal, supporting text, images, video, audio, and PDFs as inputs, with text as its primary output. The model handles up to 1 million input tokens and generates outputs up to 64K tokens, making it suitable for large-scale document or media processing at low cost. It is built on a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with native multimodal support, though exact parameter counts are undisclosed.

Flash-Lite offers the lowest usage cost among Gemini 2.5 models. It introduces developer controls for “thinking mode,” allowing fine-tuning of reasoning depth vs. efficiency. It also integrates native tools such as code execution, search grounding, and URL context. While strong on translation, classification, coding, and general multimodal reasoning, it lacks support for image or audio generation in its stable release and is less capable than Gemini 2.5 Flash or Pro on complex reasoning-heavy workflows.

Muse Spark 1.1

Muse Spark 1.1 is a natively multimodal reasoning model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, released on July 9, 2026, as a significant upgrade to the original Muse Spark. The model accepts text, image, video, PDF, and audio as input and produces text output. It operates with a 1-million-token context window (1,048,576 tokens per the Meta Model API documentation) and is designed specifically for agentic tasks that require planning, tool use, computer use, and multi-agent orchestration. The model runs in a "Thinking" mode, where adjustable reasoning effort is applied before generating a response. It can function both as a main agent gathering context, forming plans, and delegating to parallel subagents and as a subagent that adheres to assigned tasks and escalates when needed. It is trained to decide autonomously when to write automation scripts versus interact directly with a user interface.

Muse Spark 1.1 supports a range of multimodal capabilities including visual perception, image and video captioning, visual-to-code generation, and document analysis. The model was evaluated under Meta's Advanced AI Scaling Framework across frontier risk categories including chemical and biological threats, cybersecurity, and loss-of-control scenarios. Parameter count, architecture details, and training data composition are not publicly disclosed. The model is proprietary and closed-weight, accessible to consumers through the Meta AI app and to developers via the Meta Model API, which launched in public preview alongside this release.

Frequently Asked Questions

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has not yet been evaluated on Roboflow's current Vision Evals, so this comparison shows specs, licensing, and pricing rather than benchmark scores.

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