Is Muse Spark (Meta) Down?
Quickest ways to check the current status of ai.meta.com plus recent known issues and working alternatives if it's out.
Last editorial review: 2026-04-19
How to check right now
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User-reported outages aggregated across regions. Good signal for partial or regional outages.
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Known issues we've tracked
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What to use if Muse Spark (Meta) is down
Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.
Claude (Anthropic)
8.5Anthropic's flagship LLM family -- Claude Fable 5 (launched June 9, 2026) is the first publicly available Mythos-class model: $10/$50 per 1M, included on Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise through June 22, hard safety fallback to Opus 4.8 on cyber/bio/chem requests (<5% of sessions). Opus 4.8 (May 28) remains the $5/$25 workhorse with 1M-token context, effort control, and cheap fast mode
Gemini (Google)
8.3Google's LLM with deep Google Workspace integration, 2M token context window, and native code execution -- Gemini 3.5 Flash GA 2026-05-19 (I/O 2026), Gemini 3.5 Pro rolling out June 2026, Gemini Spark agent + Managed Agents public preview in the Gemini API
MiMo (Xiaomi)
8.3Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 family launched 2026-04-22 -- Pro (1T total / 42B active MoE, 1M context, native vision+audio reasoning), Multimodal base, TTS (3 sub-models: base, VoiceDesign, VoiceClone), and ASR (open-source, English + Chinese + major dialects). Full voice pipeline for the agent era. Extra-charge 1M-context tier removed at launch
Hunyuan 3 (Tencent Hy3)
8.1Tencent's Hy3 Preview launched 2026-04-23 -- 295B total / 21B active MoE, 256K context, open-sourced on HuggingFace under tencent/Hy3-preview. Cheapest frontier-class API at ~1.2 RMB per million input tokens. Integrated into Yuanbao, WeChat, QQ
Grok
7.5xAI's irreverent chatbot with a direct line to X/Twitter -- real-time data meets unfiltered personality. Grok 4.3 production launched 2026-05-02 with Custom Voices cloning + Imagine Agent Mode + ~40% API price cut to $1.25/$2.50 per 1M tokens
About Muse Spark (Meta)
Tier A (8.8/10). Meta's first model from its Superintelligence Lab -- natively multimodal with Contemplating mode for multi-agent reasoning