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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Meta Model API is Meta's pay-as-you-go API for its hosted Muse models, including Muse Wonder and Muse Spark, through OpenAI-style Responses and Chat Completions endpoints and an Anthropic-style Messages endpoint, plus image, speech and segmentation routes.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/meta-model-api.json",
      "license": "Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party.",
      "transports": [
        "http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.meta.ai/v1",
      "packages": [],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "A bearer API key created on the API keys tab of the Model API dashboard after a browser sign-up with email, mobile number, Facebook, Google or GitHub. Keys belong to a team, are shown once and are revoked by deletion. No key scopes were found, and every key on a team shares the team's rate limits.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Muse Wonder is $4.00 per million input tokens, $0.20 cached and $20.00 per million output tokens, Standard mode only (checked 2026-10-12). Muse Spark is $1.25, $0.15 and $4.25, or $0.10, $0.002 and $0.20 in Contributor mode, where Meta may train on the content. Billed in arrears to a card. No free allowance was found.",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in dev.meta.ai/llms.txt, the pricing page, the API reference or the billing help pages, checked 12 October 2026. Usage is charged to a card at a payment threshold or on the 1st of each month.",
        "endpoints": []
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
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        "image.generate",
        "image.edit",
        "speech.stt",
        "speech.streaming"
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        "official",
        "hosted",
        "model",
        "usage-priced",
        "closed-source",
        "llms-txt",
        "multimodal",
        "streaming",
        "openai-compatible",
        "anthropic-compatible",
        "card-required"
      ],
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        "grade": "D",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 868,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 1221,
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        "methodology": "0.7",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
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          "maintenance": 46,
          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 55
        },
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          "tasks"
        ],
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          "confidence": "medium",
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          "Muse Wonder and Muse Spark take text, image, video, audio and PDF input with a 1,048,576-token context window",
          "Per-token prices, per-model rate limits and rate-limit headers published without a login",
          "Content sent in Standard mode is not used to train Meta models, and training use is opt-in through `-contributor` model IDs",
          "Responses, Chat Completions and Messages endpoints, so the OpenAI and Anthropic SDKs work with a base-URL change",
          "llms.txt and a Markdown copy of every docs page, with an error guide that gives the Retry-After value for each retryable error"
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          "Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found",
          "No free API allowance found, and billing is set up with a card",
          "No status page with history. The docs' status link redirects to the home page, and `/v1/status` reports only the current state",
          "`tool_choice` accepts only `auto`, so a call can't be forced or ruled out",
          "No OpenAPI file, batch endpoint or Model API changelog found, and API keys have no scopes"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests",
          "Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content",
          "Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key",
          "Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`",
          "Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported"
        ],
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          "measured": false
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              "performance",
              "tasks"
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        ],
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          "payments": 20,
          "reliability": 40,
          "schema": 60,
          "security": 64,
          "transparency": 41
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      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST \"https://api.meta.ai/v1/responses\" \\\n  -H \"Authorization: Bearer $MODEL_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" \\\n  -d '{\"model\": \"muse-spark-1.3\", \"input\": \"What is the capital of France?\"}'"
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/meta-model-api"
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        "muse-spark-open",
        "muse-code",
        "muse-glimmer-30b"
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          "item": "Muse Wonder input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 4,
          "note": "Standard mode, muse-wonder-1.0. No long-context premium."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Wonder cached input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.2
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Wonder output",
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          "usd": 20
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 1.25,
          "note": "Standard mode, muse-spark-1.3, 1.2 and 1.1."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark cached input",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.15
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark output",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
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        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark input, Contributor mode",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.1,
          "note": "Meta may use the content to train its models."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Spark output, Contributor mode",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.2,
          "note": "Cached input is $0.002 per million tokens."
        },
        {
          "item": "Web search grounding",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 2.5,
          "note": "Per 1,000 search queries, on top of token cost."
        },
        {
          "item": "Muse Image generated image",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.01
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      ],
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        "legalEntity": "Meta Platforms, Inc.",
        "domain": "meta.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "2017-12-16",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://dev.meta.ai/legal/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-12",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated 9 October 2026) are an agreement with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited for users in the European Region. The model card names the same two.",
          "The privacy field is the Meta Privacy Policy, which the terms link. www.facebook.com's robots.txt asks readers like ours not to fetch it, as the 8 October policy reading records, so it wasn't read. The terms also link a subprocessor list at forwork.meta.com/legal/mfw-subprocessor-list/ and the Meta Global Processor Terms, neither of which was read.",
          "RDAP for meta.ai gives a registration date of 16 December 2017. The API answers at api.meta.ai.",
          "No status page. The error guide links dev.meta.ai/status, which redirects to the home page. `GET /v1/status` is an unauthenticated health endpoint with no history.",
          "No Model API changelog was found. The only changelog on dev.meta.ai is Muse Code's.",
          "dev.meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt returns 404. www.meta.ai's robots.txt disallows ClaudeBot, so its security.txt wasn't requested. www.facebook.com/.well-known/security.txt is valid until 11 November 2026 and points to bugbounty.meta.com.",
          "developer.meta.com/ai/ redirects to dev.meta.ai."
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      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/meta-model-api.json",
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        "slug": "meta-model-api",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.meta.ai/v1",
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          "samples30d": 3867,
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              "date": "2026-10-14",
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              "date": "2026-10-17",
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              "date": "2026-10-19",
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              "date": "2026-10-20",
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              "ok": 252
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              "date": "2026-10-21",
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              "date": "2026-10-22",
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              "date": "2026-10-23",
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              "probes": 251,
              "ok": 251
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            {
              "date": "2026-10-25",
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              "ok": 252
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              "ok": 249
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          ]
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          "url": "https://meta.ai/.well-known/security.txt",
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          "url": "https://dev.meta.ai/llms.txt",
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      "category": "inference",
      "summary": "Simplismart is an inference platform for open models. It runs 150+ models on shared pay-per-token endpoints with an OpenAI-compatible API, and handles dedicated GPU deployments, bring-your-own-cloud clusters and fine-tuning jobs.",
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      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json",
      "license": "Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences.",
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        "http"
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        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "simplismart-sdk"
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      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "Bearer API keys made under Settings, API Keys. Each key has a unique name and an expiry chosen at creation; non-expiring keys need a request to support. Keys return 401 after midnight UTC on the expiry date and can be deleted at once. The Python SDK and CLI use a separate Playground token. Organisation roles are Admin, Member and Billing User, and workspaces scope models and deployments.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Shared endpoints are priced per 1M tokens, per image or per audio minute, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 and DeepSeek-V3 at $0.90 per 1M tokens. Dedicated GPUs run from $1.20 (T4) to $5.20 (H200) per GPU-hour. Prepaid credits at $1 each; new organisations may receive $5 of free credits.",
      "priceSummary": "Pay per use",
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      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402, MPP or L402 in the docs (llms.txt index, billing, API keys and API reference pages) or on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026. Credits are bought by card, UPI or netbanking, or billed postpaid.",
        "endpoints": []
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      "popularity": {
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        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-10-28"
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      "docsUrl": "https://docs.simplismart.ai",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://docs.simplismart.ai/openapi-specs/playground/llama-8b.yaml",
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        "inference.open-weights",
        "speech.stt",
        "image.generate",
        "compute.endpoints",
        "finetune.sft",
        "finetune.lora",
        "finetune.preference",
        "finetune.rl"
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        "dedicated-endpoints",
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      "graded": true,
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        "agentReady": false,
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        "ranked": true,
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        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
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          "maintenance": 42,
          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 51,
          "security": 35,
          "transparency": 31
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          "tasks"
        ],
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          "date": "2026-10-28"
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        "bestFor": "Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.",
        "strengths": [
          "Public per-unit prices without a login, such as Llama 3.1 8B at $0.13 per 1M tokens and Whisper v3 Turbo at $0.0018 per audio minute",
          "API keys are named, carry an expiry date chosen at creation, return 401 after expiry and can be deleted at once",
          "Markdown docs and an llms.txt index, with OpenAPI 3.1 files for seven LLMs, Whisper and Flux",
          "Shared endpoints, dedicated GPU deployments and bring-your-own-cloud clusters sit on one account, with workspaces and organisation roles"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages",
          "No status page, incident history or SLA document found; the 99.99% uptime figure is a homepage claim",
          "Tool calling, structured output, prompt caching and context lengths are not documented for the shared endpoints",
          "The terms (13 January 2023) and privacy policy cover the website and say nothing about prompt retention or training on API data",
          "The pricing page lists older models (Llama 3.1, DeepSeek-R1) and omits Gemma 4 31B, the model the quickstart uses"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.",
          "Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.",
          "Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.",
          "Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.",
          "Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete."
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          "payments": 25,
          "reliability": 15,
          "schema": 51,
          "security": 35,
          "transparency": 14
        },
        "provenanceScore": 48,
        "checked": {
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            "payments": "2026-10-28",
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            "schema": "2026-10-28",
            "security": "2026-10-28",
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          "oldest": "2026-10-28",
          "stale": false,
          "staleAfterDays": 90
        }
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl 'https://api.simplismart.live/chat/completions' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SIMPLISMART_API_KEY\" -d '{\"model\": \"meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct\", \"messages\": [{\"role\": \"user\", \"content\": \"Say hello.\"}]}'"
      },
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        "capability": "https://letme.dev/inference.llm",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/simplismart"
      },
      "area": "models",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Llama 3.1 8B (shared)",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.13,
          "note": "Single per-1M-token rate on the pricing page, checked 28 October 2026; input and output are not priced separately"
        },
        {
          "item": "Llama 3.3 70B (shared)",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.74,
          "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "item": "DeepSeek-V3 (shared)",
          "unit": "1m-tokens",
          "usd": 0.9,
          "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "item": "Whisper v3 Turbo (shared)",
          "unit": "audio-minute",
          "usd": 0.0018,
          "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "item": "Flux Dev (shared, 1024x1024)",
          "unit": "image",
          "usd": 0.03,
          "note": "Pricing page, checked 28 October 2026"
        },
        {
          "item": "NVIDIA H100, dedicated",
          "unit": "gpu-hour",
          "usd": 5,
          "note": "Pricing page table order, checked 28 October 2026; a Simplismart article gives $4.00 per hour"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Verute Technologies Private Limited",
        "domain": "simplismart.ai",
        "domainRegistered": "",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": false,
        "terms": "https://simplismart.ai/terms-of-service",
        "privacy": "https://simplismart.ai/privacy-policy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-10-28",
        "notes": [
          "The terms (last updated 13 January 2023) and privacy policy (effective 13 January 2023) name Verute Technologies Private Limited, Indian law and an address on Residency Road, Bengaluru. Both define the Service as the simplismart.ai website.",
          "The inference API answers on api.simplismart.live, a separate domain named in the docs. Domain registration was not checked.",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/simplismart.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/simplismart.json\n- Best model APIs and inference for AI agents: https://www.anchorterminal.com/best/inference/index.md\n- All 497 models comparisons: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/inference/index.md\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Meta Model API (D)\n\nGood for: Long-running agent and coding work over text, images, video, audio and PDFs with a 1M-token context, where training must stay off by default.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 40 against 15\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 60 against 51\n- Agent ergonomics, 75 against 17\n- Security \u0026 auth, 64 against 35\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 55 against 31\n\nWatch for: Muse Wonder is labelled a preview, and no deprecation policy or notice period was found\n\n### Simplismart (F)\n\nGood for: Teams that want open models on a pay-per-token OpenAI-compatible endpoint and a path to dedicated GPUs, their own cloud or fine-tuning with one vendor, and can work without published rate limits or data-handling terms.\n\nAhead on:\n- Payments \u0026 pricing, 25 against 20\n\nWatch for: No request or token rate limits, 429 handling or retry guidance found in the docs; only GPU quotas, given as 1 and as 8 H100s on two pages\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Meta Model API | Simplismart | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 40 | 15 | Meta Model API +25 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 60 | 51 | Meta Model API +9 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 75 | 17 | Meta Model API +58 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 64 | 35 | Meta Model API +29 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 20 | 25 | Simplismart +5 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 46 | 42 | Meta Model API +4 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 55 | 31 | Meta Model API +24 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **52.5 · D** | **29.7 · F** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Meta Model API | Simplismart |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | Model API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Meta | Verute Technologies Private Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` | `https://api.simplismart.live` |\n| Transports | HTTP | HTTP |\n| Auth | API key | API key |\n| Pricing | Pay per use | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | Closed service under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026), with Meta Platforms, Inc., or Meta Platforms Ireland Limited in the European Region, as the contracting party. | Proprietary hosted service. The community Pipecat integration (pipecat-simplismart, by the simpli-smart GitHub account) is BSD-2-Clause; served models keep their own licences. |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| Last release | 2026-10-12 | 2026-10-19 |\n| Terms last updated |  |  |\n| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read |  |\n| Customer content may train models |  |  |\n| Terms restrict automated access |  |  |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking |  |  |\n| Terms or service can change without notice |  |  |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  |  |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Meta Model API.** Meta Model API serves Muse Wonder, in preview since 12 October 2026, and Muse Spark with 1M-token context, constrained JSON Schema output, automatic prompt caching and per-token prices published without a login. Standard-mode content is not used for training. There's no free allowance, status history, OpenAPI file, deprecation policy or way to force a tool call.\n\n**Simplismart.** Simplismart exposes open models through an OpenAI-compatible endpoint with public per-token prices and expiring, revocable keys. Its public docs give no request rate limits, status page, retry guidance, tool-calling or structured-output reference, and its terms and privacy policy cover the website, not API data.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Meta Model API\n\n1. Use `muse-wonder-1.0` for long multi-step work and `muse-spark-1.3` for cheaper, high-volume calls. Both take the same requests\n2. Keep personal or confidential data away from `-contributor` model IDs. Meta may train on that content\n3. Honour Retry-After on 429 and 503, which is 60 seconds for `service_overloaded`, and check `GET https://api.meta.ai/v1/status`, which needs no key\n4. Pass the key to the OpenAI SDK explicitly or set `OPENAI_API_KEY`. The SDK doesn't read `MODEL_API_KEY`\n5. Leave `tool_choice` at `auto`. The docs say `none` and `required` are not supported\n\n### Simplismart\n\n1. Point an OpenAI-compatible client at https://api.simplismart.live with SIMPLISMART_API_KEY as a Bearer token, and take model ids from the marketplace or the per-model API pages.\n2. Set a key expiry and rotate before midnight UTC on the expiry date, because an expired key returns 401.\n3. Cap retries yourself with exponential backoff, because no rate limits, 429 format or retry guidance are published.\n4. Check that a model supports tools or JSON output with a test call before relying on it, because neither is documented.\n5. Confirm the per-token price of the exact model in the console before running large jobs, because the public price list is incomplete.\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Meta Model API or Simplismart?\n\nMeta Model API scores 52.5 (D) on agent readiness against Simplismart's 29.7 (F), and leads in 6 of 7 scored categories. Simplismart leads on payments \u0026 pricing.\n\n### Do Meta Model API and Simplismart need an API key?\n\nBoth need an API key.\n\n### Can an agent call Meta Model API and Simplismart without installing anything?\n\nYes. Meta Model API has a hosted endpoint at https://api.meta.ai/v1 and Simplismart at https://api.simplismart.live.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-simplismart.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/meta-model-api-vs-simplismart.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"meta-model-api\", \"b\": \"simplismart\"}`. 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