# Muse Spark Open vs SambaCloud (slim)

> SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) to Muse Spark Open's 53.4 (D) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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SambaCloud scores 66.4 (B) on agent readiness against Muse Spark Open's 53.4 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Muse Spark Open leads on payments & pricing. Both do llm inference.

- Muse Spark Open: D 53.4, rank #760 of 1095 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-spark-open.min.md
- SambaCloud: B 66.4, rank #313 of 1095 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md
- Muse Spark Open, good for A team with a four-GPU Blackwell node, or two to four Mac Studios, that wants a 1M-token multimodal coding and agent model on its own hardware with no prompts leaving it. Ahead on Payments & pricing, 50 against 40. Also No key needed to call it.
- SambaCloud, good for Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 42; Schema & documentation, 81 against 61; Security & auth, 58 against 44; Maintenance & community, 77 against 60; Transparency & trust, 63 against 53. Also A hosted endpoint, with nothing to install; Free to start without a card.

| Category | Muse Spark Open | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 42 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 61 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 69 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 44 | 58 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 50 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 60 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 63 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Muse Spark Open | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Meta | SambaNova Systems, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | no (local only) | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` |
| Auth | None | API key |
| Pricing | Free | Freemium |
| Licence | Muse Model Licence (source-available weights, not an OSI licence), free of charge with an attribution notice, a separate agreement with Meta before Model as a Service by a licensee group above $20M gross revenue, and the Muse Spark Open Usage Policy | Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-10-15 | 2026-09-17 |
| Terms last updated |  | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | 2023-05-27 |
| Customer content may train models |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict automated access |  | not found in the text |
| Terms restrict benchmarking |  | yes |
| Terms or service can change without notice |  | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver |  | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |