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Grok 4.5 vs Muse Spark 1.1

Compare Grok 4.5 and Muse Spark 1.1 side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Image Captioning, Open Prompt, Classification, and OCR.

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Grok 4.5 vs Muse Spark 1.1 on Vision Evals

Muse Spark 1.1 scores higher on all six Vision Evals tasks.

The widest gap is Object Detection, where Muse Spark 1.1 leads 58.4% to 18.0%.

Overall, Grok 4.5 averages 64.3% (#25 of 30) against 79.3% (#7 of 30) for Muse Spark 1.1.

Muse Spark 1.1 is both cheaper ($0.0069 vs $0.0077 per sample) and faster (11.4s vs 14.3s per sample).

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Grok 4.5 vs Muse Spark 1.1 Comparison Table

Evals updated August 14, 2026Pricing updated August 15, 2026

PropertyGrok 4.5Muse Spark 1.1
OrganizationSpaceXAIMeta
Categoryclosedclosed
Modalitymultimodalmultimodal
Release DateJul 2026Jul 2026
Context Window500K1.0M
Parameters
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Pricing per 1M tokens
Input $/1M$2.00$1.25
Output $/1M$6.00$4.25
Vision Tasks
CaptioningDemoDemo
Chart Question Answering
ClassificationDemoDemo
Document Question Answering
Image Tagging
Multi-Label Classification
OCRDemoDemo
Vision Language
Visual Question AnsweringDemoDemo
Object DetectionDemo
Model Features
Foundation Vision
LLMs with Vision Capabilities
Multimodal Vision
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 6 vision tasks, pooled at low effort
Overall
64.3%
79.3%
Avg cost / sample$0.0077$0.0069
Avg speed / sample14.33s11.40s
By task
Object Detection
18.0%
$0.0100
58.4%
$0.010
Counting
55.4%
$0.0065
75.7%
$0.0043
Identification
78.1%
$0.0045
87.5%
$0.0032
OCR
92.5%
$0.0065
92.5%
$0.0063
Data Extraction
83.5%
$0.0044
86.6%
$0.0031
Reasoning (low)
58.3%
$0.0076
74.8%
$0.0065
Reasoning (high)
59.6%
$0.011
76.2%
$0.013

Grok 4.5 vs Muse Spark 1.1: Overview

Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is a proprietary reasoning model from SpaceXAI (xAI) that accepts interleaved text and image input and returns text, with a 500,000 token context window. xAI positions it as a model for coding, agentic software work, and knowledge tasks, and states it was trained in the company's Memphis data centers on datasets spanning science, engineering, and mathematics. Its reinforcement learning stage covers hundreds of thousands of multi step software engineering tasks scored by automated checks and model based grading, and training is reported to have run on tens of thousands of NVIDIA GB300 GPUs using an asynchronous scheme in which multi hour agentic rollouts continue while learning proceeds in parallel, targeting long horizon autonomous operation rather than single turn inference.

For vision, the model consumes JPEG and PNG images in any order relative to text prompts, covering visual question answering, description of chart and document imagery, and reading text rendered inside a scene. Reasoning effort is configurable, and the model supports function calling and structured outputs, so image inputs can be interleaved with tool calls inside agent loops. xAI has not published a technical report, architecture details, or parameter count, and reported mixture of experts sizing figures come from secondary coverage rather than official documentation.

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

On Roboflow's Vision Evals, Muse Spark 1.1 performed better. It scores higher on all six vision tasks and averages 79.3% (#7 of 30) against 64.3% (#25 of 30) for Grok 4.5. These scores measure vision capabilities only; either model may perform differently on work outside this benchmark's tasks.

No. On the Vision Evals Object Detection benchmark, Muse Spark 1.1 leads with 58.4% against 18.0%. This is the widest gap between the two models across the benchmark's tasks.

Muse Spark 1.1 is cheaper to run. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals task mix it averaged $0.0069 per sample against $0.0077. Grok 4.5 is priced at $2.00 per 1M input tokens and $6.00 per 1M output; Muse Spark 1.1 is priced at $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output. Actual costs depend on your image sizes, prompts, and output length.

Muse Spark 1.1 is faster. Across Roboflow's Vision Evals it averaged 11.4s per inference against 14.3s. Latency varies with image size, prompt length, and provider load, so treat these as relative rather than guaranteed figures.

Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and open prompts in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.