Meta entered the AI coding race on August 5 with Muse Code, a terminal-based coding agent, and Muse Spark 1.2, its coding-focused AI model, taking direct aim at Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex. Unlike its open-weight Llama models, Muse Code is paid software for macOS and Linux that integrates closely with Muse Spark 1.2. Meta has observed that Muse Spark 1.2 may be competitive in some ways, but it is far from being the market leader. Muse Spark 1.2 showed mediocre performance on the DeepSWE 1.1 benchmark as well, achieving third place, with Opus 5 being the winner. How Muse Spark 1.2 prices against DeepSeek’s V4Pricing could become one of Meta’s biggest competitive advantages—if developers accept the tradeoff.