// head_to_head
Muse Spark Open vs Relace Search
Published LiveBench scores across all seven categories, live list pricing, context windows, and the measured cost of a point of capability — for both models, side by side.
Relace Search is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here.
Relace Search does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
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Muse Spark Open
- Blended / 1M
- $2.00
- Context
- 1.0M
- Released
- Oct 15, 2026
- Overall score
- 51.6
relace
Relace Search
- Blended / 1M
- $1.50
- Context
- 256K
- Released
- Dec 8, 2025
- Overall score
- Not evaluated
Specs and pricing
| Metric | Muse Spark Open | Relace Search |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench overall Weighted mean of the seven LiveBench category scores, 0–100. Higher is better. | 51.6 | — |
| Cost per point Measured benchmark spend divided by overall score — dollars per point of capability. | $0.0094 | — |
| Blended price / 1M 3:1 input:output mix, the usual shape of production traffic. | $2.00 | $1.50win |
| Input price / 1M | $1.25 | $1.00win |
| Output price / 1M | $4.25 | $3.00win |
| Cached input / 1M Price of an input token served from the prompt cache, where the provider publishes one. | $0.150 | — |
| Context window | 1.0Mwin | 256K |
| Max output tokens | 131K | 128K |
Benchmarks by category
An overall score averages away the thing you probably care about. These are the seven LiveBench categories scored separately — Muse Spark Open on top, Relace Search below, both out of 100.
What each one costs to run
Per-token prices are hard to feel. These are monthly list costs for both models across five workload shapes, using each provider's published cached-input rate where there is one.
| Workload | Muse Spark Open | Relace Search |
|---|---|---|
| Support chatbot 1.2K in / 400 out × 200K requests | $560.80/mo | $480.00/mo |
| RAG assistant 8K in / 600 out × 100K requests | $815.00/mo | $980.00/mo |
| Coding agent 40K in / 4K out × 20K requests | $724.00/mo | $1,040/mo |
| Document extraction 20K in / 1.5K out × 50K requests | $1,514/mo | $1,225/mo |
| Bulk classification 500 in / 20 out × 5M requests | $3,000/mo | $2,800/mo |
Which should you pick?
You need to fit large documents in one call
Muse Spark Open
Wider context window — 1.0M against 256K.
You are cost-constrained
Relace Search
Cheaper on blended list price at $1.50 per million tokens.
Muse Spark Open vs Relace Search FAQ
Which is better, Muse Spark Open or Relace Search?
Relace Search is the cheaper of the two; neither can be ranked on quality here. Relace Search does not have a published LiveBench run, so this comparison covers price, context and declared capabilities only. A missing score means "not evaluated", not "worse" — the right way to separate these two is an eval on your own workload.
Is Muse Spark Open cheaper than Relace Search?
Relace Search is cheaper. On a 3:1 input:output blend, Muse Spark Open lists at $2.00 per million tokens and Relace Search at $1.50 — Relace Search is 33% cheaper. Input and output are priced separately — Muse Spark Open charges $1.25 in and $4.25 out, Relace Search charges $1.00 and $3.00 — so the model that looks cheaper flips depending on how output-heavy your workload is.
Does Muse Spark Open or Relace Search have a bigger context window?
Muse Spark Open has the larger context window: 1.0M for Muse Spark Open against 256K for Relace Search. Note that a window you can fill is not a window you should fill — retrieval quality usually degrades well before the limit, and you pay for every token you put in it.
Do Muse Spark Open and Relace Search support prompt caching?
Muse Spark Open publishes a cached-input rate of $0.150 per million tokens against a full input rate of $1.25. The catalogue lists no separate cached rate for Relace Search, which means the provider does not price it separately here — not that caching is unavailable.
Related comparisons
How these numbers are produced
- Price — provider list price from OpenRouter, refreshed every 15 minutes. “Blended” is a 3:1 input:output mix.
- Scores — LiveBench release 2026-10-25, using their own category map. Each model shows its strongest published run. A blank means “not evaluated”, never “bad”.
- Cost per point — the measured dollars LiveBench spent on the run, divided by the score it earned.
- “Win” — awarded only past a threshold: one full point on a benchmark score, 10% on a price, 25% on a context window. Anything tighter reports as a tie, because effort settings alone move a LiveBench score by more than that.
Published benchmarks rank models on someone else's tasks. Before committing, see LLM & agent evaluation for building an eval on your own.