· verified September 8, 2026
public paid api in Generator agents vision reasoning long-context value
Provider
Statuspublic
AA Intelligence Index62.1 (September 8, 2026 snapshot)
Released2026-09-02
Context window1.05M
ModalitiesText + image + files + audio + video
API price $/1M (in / out)$1.25 / $4.25 · $0.15 per 1M cached input · up to 940K output tokens · a Contributor tier runs at $0.10/$0.20
Speedn/a
AccessReleased September 2, 2026 · API $1.25/$4.25 per 1M tokens · Contributor tier $0.10/$0.20
In one line
Meta's second-place finish, and the best value in the top five by a wide margin: a fifth of the frontier input price, natively multimodal across audio and video, and an output window measured in hundreds of thousands of tokens. Three versions in eight weeks says Meta has stopped experimenting with the Muse line and started shipping it.
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