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# Get started with Meta Model API
Meta Model API lets you build with Muse Spark using the tools you already run. It's drop-in compatible with the OpenAI SDK, the Anthropic SDK, and OpenAI-compatible agent CLIs. Point your client at the base URL, set your key, and keep the rest of your code.
You get agent-ready primitives out of the box: parallel tool calls, streamed tool-call arguments, reasoning that carries across turns, and a 1M-token context window.
## At a glance {#at-a-glance}
Everything you need to make your first call.
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| **Base URL** | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` |
| **Model** | `muse-spark-1.1` |
| **Context window** | 1,048,576 tokens |
| **Auth** | Bearer token (`MODEL_API_KEY`) |
| **Pricing** | Pay-as-you-go; see [Pricing and rate limits](/docs/pricing-rate-limits) |
## Explore the platform {#explore-the-platform}
Jump to the surface you need.
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<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/quickstart" title="Quickstart"> Set your key, call the API, and read your first response.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/models" title="Models"> Muse Spark specs: modalities, context window, and status.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook" title="Cookbook"> Copy-paste recipes for primitives, agent loops, and use cases.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/pricing-rate-limits" title="Pricing and rate limits"> Per-token pricing and the free and paid rate-limit tiers.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/sdks" title="SDKs and libraries"> Wire up the OpenAI SDK, the Anthropic SDK, and compatible frameworks.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/api-reference" title="API reference"> Full request and response schemas for every endpoint.</tile>
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## Capabilities {#capabilities}
Muse Spark ships agent-ready primitives. Each page explains the concept, shows code, and covers constraints.
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<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/tool-calling" title="Tool calling"> Connect the model to your APIs with parallel, streamed tool calls.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/tool-search" title="Tool search"> Discover and load deferred tools on demand to save tokens.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/search-grounding" title="Search grounding"> Real-time answers with inline citations, no retrieval stack to build.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/image-understanding" title="Image understanding"> Read photos, charts, documents, and screenshots.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/video-understanding" title="Video understanding"> Summarize clips, ask questions about footage, and transcribe speech.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/file-handling" title="File handling"> Upload once and reference files by ID across requests.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/reasoning" title="Reasoning"> Dial reasoning effort up or down per request.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/structured-output" title="Structured output"> Return valid JSON that matches your schema every time.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/prompt-caching" title="Prompt caching"> Cache repeated prefixes to cut latency and cost.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/token-counting" title="Token counting"> Count input tokens before you send to estimate cost and fit context.</tile>
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## Protocols {#protocols}
Pick the request format your code already speaks — same models, same auth, same cost per token. See [Choosing an API](/docs/protocols) to compare them.
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<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/protocols/responses" title="Responses API"> Agentic, multi-step workloads with reasoning replay and server-managed state.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/protocols/chat-completions" title="Chat Completions API"> The OpenAI-compatible messages-array endpoint.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/protocols/messages" title="Messages API"> The Anthropic Messages-compatible endpoint.</tile>
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## Agent guides {#agent-guides}
Go deeper on building agents and integrations.
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<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/coding-agents" title="Coding agents"> Wire Muse Spark into OpenCode, Codex, and other coding harnesses.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/agent-frameworks" title="Agent frameworks"> Build with LangChain, LlamaIndex, and the Vercel AI SDK.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/computer-use" title="Computer use"> Drive a desktop from screenshots with a computer-use agent.</tile>
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## Model API Cookbook: Featured recipes {#featured-recipes}
Start from working code. Explore the full set in the [Cookbook](/docs/cookbook).
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<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook/computer-use" title="Computer use"> Control a desktop from screenshots with a computer-use agent.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook/iterative-game-dev" title="Iterative game dev"> Build a browser game end-to-end with a coding agent, verified in a real browser.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook/quickstart-chat-completions" title="Quickstart: chat completions"> Point the OpenAI SDK at a new base URL and make your first Muse Spark call.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook/tool-function-calling" title="Tool and function calling"> Detect a tool call, execute it, and feed the result back into the loop.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook/search-grounding" title="Search grounding"> Ground answers in live web search with inline citations.</tile>
<tile color="elevated" icon="chain" href="/docs/cookbook/multi-agent-orchestration" title="Multi-agent orchestration"> Orchestrate a team of specialists that coordinate through a shared Kanban board.</tile>
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## Get unblocked {#get-unblocked}
Browse the [Help Center](/help) for accounts, API keys, billing, and rate-limit questions. For anything it doesn't cover, contact support through the Help Center.
Get started with Meta Model API
Meta Model API lets you build with Muse Spark using the tools you already run. It's drop-in compatible with the OpenAI SDK, the Anthropic SDK, and OpenAI-compatible agent CLIs. Point your client at the base URL, set your key, and keep the rest of your code.You get agent-ready primitives out of the box: parallel tool calls, streamed tool-call arguments, reasoning that carries across turns, and a 1M-token context window.Everything you need to make your first call.
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Base URL | https://api.meta.ai/v1
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Model | muse-spark-1.1
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Context window | 1,048,576 tokens |
Auth | Bearer token (MODEL_API_KEY) |
Pricing | |
Model API Cookbook: Featured recipes