Meta Muse vs. Muse Code: which subscription do you actually need?
Meta now sells two things called Muse: a consumer agent with $20 and $100 plans, and a coding agent with plans from $5 to $200. Both have tiers called Power and Maximum. Here’s how to tell them apart before you pay.
Two products, one name
Within eight days, Meta put a price on two different products that share a name. On August 31, 2026, Muse Code — the terminal coding agent this site covers — left beta with monthly plans. On September 8, Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent for everyone, with plans of its own. Search results now mix the two freely, and “Meta Muse subscription” can mean either.
They are not the same thing. Muse is a consumer assistant that acts on your behalf: it reads your email, books travel, fills in forms, and can pay for things with your card, working inside an isolated environment Meta calls Muse Secure VM. Muse Code is a developer tool that plans, writes, and validates code in your repositories from the terminal. What they share is the model family underneath: both run on Meta’s Muse Spark.
Side by side
| Meta Muse | Muse Code | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Personal AI agent that handles errands for you | AI coding agent in your terminal |
| Built for | Everyone | Developers |
| Where it runs | iOS, Android, Mac app, muse.ai, WhatsApp; Windows app announced | macOS, Linux, and Windows terminals |
| Launched | September 8, 2026 (United States); Japan on October 23 | Beta August 5; out of beta August 31, 2026 |
| Free option | Free tier | None announced |
| Paid plans | Power $20/month, Maximum $100/month | Everyday $5, High $15, Power $50, Maximum $200 per month |
| Pay per use | — | Meta Model API tokens, from $0.10 per 1M input |
| Model | Muse Spark 1.3 (Muse Wonder coming soon) | Muse Spark 1.3, Muse Wonder; Wonder Full on Power and Maximum |
The “Power” trap
The naming collision goes one level deeper than the product name. Muse’s middle plan is called Power and costs $20 a month. Muse Code’s third plan is called Power Usage and costs $50 a month. If you’re reading a checkout page, a receipt, or a forum post that just says “Power,” check which product it belongs to before you conclude anything about price or limits.
The “Maximum” trap, too
Since October 12, the collision has a second layer. Muse Code added a top plan called Maximum Usage at $200 a month — and Muse already had a plan called Maximum at $100. So both products now have a Power tier and a Maximum tier, at different prices. The model lineup differs as well: Muse Code plans include Muse Wonder, Meta’s first frontier model, but Muse Wonder Full is only on Muse Code’s Power and Maximum plans. The consumer Muse app still runs on Muse Spark 1.3; Meta says Wonder is coming to it soon, subscribers first.
Which one do you need?
- You want something to handle email, bookings, forms, and shopping. That’s Muse. Meta says the free tier covers most of what people need and positions the paid plans as more usage for handing off everyday tasks.
- You write software and want an agent working in your repositories. That’s Muse Code. Its Everyday Usage plan ($5) covers roughly 10–50 prompts every five hours; High Usage ($15) gives five times that; Power Usage ($50) gives twenty times the Everyday allowance; and Maximum Usage ($200), added on October 12, gives eighty times. (At launch on August 31, High was 3× and Power 10×; Meta raised them to 5× and 20× at the same prices without an announcement.) Meta hasn’t described any bundle between the two products’ plans, so treat them as separate purchases.
- You’re building your own app on Meta’s models. You may not need either subscription. The Meta Model API bills per token — $1.25 per 1M input tokens on the standard tier, or $0.10 on the Contributor tier if you let Meta use your data.
For Muse’s own plans, free allowance, apps, and how its invite codes work, see our Meta Muse pricing guide.
The third way to pay
Muse Code is unusual among coding agents in that the subscription is optional. You can run it on an API key and pay only for tokens, which suits CI pipelines, scripted runs, and anyone who uses it in bursts. Our Contributor vs. Standard breakdown covers the privacy trade-off behind the two token tiers, and the pricing page has an estimator for comparing tokens with a plan.