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 $5, $15, and $50 plans. Both have a tier called Power. 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, muse.ai, WhatsApp; AI glasses later | macOS and Linux; Windows through WSL2 |
| Launched | September 8, 2026 (United States) | 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 per month |
| Pay per use | — | Meta Model API tokens, from $0.10 per 1M input |
| Model | Muse Spark | Muse Spark 1.3 |
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 top 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.
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 requests every five hours; High Usage ($15) triples that; Power Usage ($50) gives ten times the Everyday allowance. 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.
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.