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GPT-6.1 Sol vs Muse Spark Open: which delivered after 7 days?
GPT-6.1 Sol is stamped Partly; Muse Spark Open is still Too early to call, so this comparison isn't settled yet.
| GPT-6.1 Sol | Muse Spark Open | |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Partly | Too early |
| Claims held | 0 | 0 |
| Claims mixed | 3 | 1 |
| Claims failed | 0 | 0 |
| Claims unclear | 2 | 3 |
| User reports | 5 | 6 |
| Launched | 29 Sept 2026 | 15 Oct 2026 |
| Last stamped | 22 Oct 2026 | 25 Oct 2026 |
No. 004 · OpenAI
GPT-6.1 Sol
It arrived and Ultrafast followed, but 'available today' took app updates for many users, Ultrafast is limited to top plans, and some users report over-refusals.
- Launched
- 29 Sept 2026
- Stamped
- 22 Oct 2026
- Claims
- ✓0 held · ~3 mixed · ✗0 failed · ?2 unclear
- Reports
- 5 (0 praise · 3 problem · 2 mixed)
What they claimed
“GPT-6.1 Sol is available starting today to all Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users in ChatGPT Work and Codex.”~ Mixed
“In the coming days, we’ll also offer GPT-6.1 Sol Ultrafast, with up to 8x faster token generation compared to its standard speed in Codex.”~ Mixed
“GPT-6.1 Sol is more transparent about its limitations and more reliable at respecting user intent and safety constraints.”~ Mixed
“We’re introducing GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgrade to GPT-6 Sol that nearly matches GPT-6 Astra’s intelligence on agentic coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard input and output token prices.”? Unclear
“Its standard API prices are $2 per million input tokens, $0.10 per million cached input tokens, and $10 per million output tokens.”? Unclear
No. 007 · Meta
Muse Spark Open
Ten days in, nobody independent has run the two-Mac-Studio setup, and Apple still lists the 512GB M5 Ultra as coming in late October.
- Launched
- 15 Oct 2026
- Stamped
- 25 Oct 2026
- Claims
- ✓0 held · ~1 mixed · ✗0 failed · ?3 unclear
- Reports
- 6 (2 praise · 3 problem · 1 mixed)
What they claimed
“Muse Spark Open is the first model in its class to run on your desktop using two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios with the latest MLX framework.”~ Mixed
“Muse Spark Open is available today through API platforms at Baseten, Fireworks AI, Groq, Modal, Nebius, OpenRouter and Together AI.”? Unclear
“We’re releasing the weights under the Muse Model License with limited commercial terms, which allow many developers to use the model for free.”? Unclear
“Muse Spark Open is a natively multimodal model with 816B total parameters (42B active) and a 1M-token context window.”? Unclear
Both stamps come from the public user reports linked on each receipt, under the same method. Verdicts are opinion and are never paid for.
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