Posts tagged with #pricing

GUIDE· 5 min read

Muse Code API key: how to create one, use it in CI, and what it costs

Muse Code can sign in with a browser or an API key, and the key is also your way into Meta’s Model API. How to create a key, the environment variable each tool expects (META_API_KEY vs. MODEL_API_KEY), base URLs, per-token prices, rate limits, and the mistakes that cause surprise bills.

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ANALYSIS· 6 min read

Muse Code vs. Claude Code: price, benchmarks, and which one to use

Claude Code still edges Meta’s agent on most coding benchmarks, but Muse Code starts at $5 a month and its fastest runs finish in half the time. A side-by-side of plans, API prices, independent scores, privacy defaults, and how to switch between them.

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ANALYSIS· 5 min read

Muse Code vs. Codex: Meta’s and OpenAI’s coding agents compared

Muse Code edges OpenAI’s Codex on independent coding-agent benchmarks, but Codex comes bundled with ChatGPT and runs in far more places. Plans, prices, scores, speed, open-source status, and where Cursor fits in.

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ANNOUNCEMENT· 6 min read

Muse Wonder and Wonder Full in Muse Code: plans, prices, and the launch-day bug

Meta’s first frontier models arrived on October 12 with a new $200 Maximum plan. Here’s which Muse Code plan gets Wonder or Wonder Full, what Wonder costs on the API next to Spark 1.3, and whether an upgrade is worth it.

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ANALYSIS· 4 min read

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.

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ANNOUNCEMENT· 5 min read

Muse Spark 1.3: what changed, what it costs, and where to use it

Meta’s September model update replaced Muse Spark 1.2 inside Muse Code without raising prices. The headline benchmarks come with a caveat — and the efficiency gains may matter more to your bill.

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ANALYSIS· 3 min read

Meta enters the agent race: the business story behind Muse Code

Strip away the benchmarks and Muse Code is a strategic statement: Meta’s first coding agent, priced to undercut the incumbents, shipped by the lab Alexandr Wang was hired to run.

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ANALYSIS· 3 min read

Muse Code vs. the field: the price-capability map

Five serious rivals, two axes that matter. Where Meta’s agent actually sits against Claude, Codex, DeepSeek, GLM, and MiniMax — and a decision framework that survives the next price change.

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GUIDE· 3 min read

Contributor vs. Standard: doing the tier math

The two ways to pay for Muse Spark 1.2 differ by more than an order of magnitude. The right choice isn’t one tier — it’s a per-project policy.

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