Muse is Meta's personal AI agent: an AI that takes actions for you — managing email and calendars, booking reservations and travel, tracking deals and budgets — instead of only answering questions. You chat with it in the Muse app on mobile or Mac, or directly in WhatsApp, and it keeps working in the background after you close the app. Muse Wonder, the frontier model Meta released on October 12, 2026, is the model family that Meta says will "soon power experiences in Muse."
If you searched for muse code or muse subscription, note that these are different products: Muse (the consumer agent) is free with a usage limit and has a paid upgrade, while Muse Code is Meta's terminal coding agent with its own four monthly plans. For Muse Wonder API prices, see our separate Muse Wonder pricing guide.
中文版：Muse Meta：Meta 个人 AI 智能体 Muse、Muse Wonder 与 Muse Code
What Muse Does
According to Meta's Muse page (checked October 14, 2026):
- Agent, not chatbot: given a task, Muse picks the skills it needs, browses the web, pulls information from connected apps and acts across multiple steps.
- Muse Secure VM: each user gets a persistent, isolated Linux computer with a full browser that both you and the agent can use, so you can step in at any point.
- Connectors: link email, calendar, Instagram and other apps; if a needed tool does not exist, Muse builds one.
- Approvals: Muse asks before sensitive actions such as sending messages or making purchases; you can allow once, always allow or deny, and see an audit trail.
- Privacy: logins sit in a credential store the agent cannot read, checkout uses one-time card numbers, and Meta says conversations are not shared with its ad systems. Meta's Muse privacy policy adds that use of your interactions for AI training can be switched off under Data controls.
How Muse Relates to Muse Wonder
Muse is the product; Muse Wonder is a model. Meta's Muse Wonder launch post (October 12, 2026) introduces the Muse Wonder series — Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — and says:
- Muse Wonder is available through the Meta Model API and Muse Code; Muse Wonder Full is available to Muse Code subscribers.
- Muse Wonder "will soon power experiences in Muse, and will roll out first to subscribers." Meta does not give a date.
- Features Meta highlights for agents — Active Memory (carrying context across conversations) and Active Focus (keeping at a hard task and checking in before important actions) — are exactly what a personal agent like Muse needs.
So today Muse Wonder is something developers can call directly, and consumers will meet it inside Muse later.
Muse Code: Meta's Coding Agent
Meta's help center describes Muse Code as "Meta Model API's terminal-based coding agent." You can pay for it per token with a Meta Model API key, or with a flat-rate subscription that works only through the Muse Code CLI while signed in with your Meta Model API account. Extra API keys you create are billed pay-as-you-go.
| Muse Code plan | Price | What Meta lists |
|---|---|---|
| Everyday Usage | $5/month | Muse Spark, Muse Wonder and Muse Image; 10–50 prompts every 5 hours; voice mode; web search |
| High Usage | $15/month | Everything in Everyday; 5x the usage; more multimodal inputs |
| Power Usage | $50/month | Everything in High; most powerful Muse models incl. Muse Wonder Full; 20x usage |
| Maximum Usage | $200/month | Everything in Power; 80x usage |
Subscriptions default to Contributor mode, which gives more usage in exchange for letting Meta train on your prompts, code and responses; you can turn it off. Benefits may vary by region.
Muse Subscription: Muse App vs Muse Code
A muse subscription can mean two things:
- Muse (the agent app): Meta's FAQ says Muse "is available for free with a usage limit"; when you hit it you can upgrade to a paid subscription or wait for the limit to refresh. Meta's Muse page does not list a price, so we don't quote one.
- Muse Code: the four plans above, managed through Subscriptions in Meta's Accounts Center.
Muse Wonder vs Gemini 4 Argon vs GPT-6 Astra
Facts below come from each vendor's official pages (checked October 14, 2026); benchmark claims are the vendors' own, so we don't repeat them.
| Muse Wonder (Meta) | Gemini 4 Argon (Google) | GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Available since | Oct 12, 2026 | Broad availability Oct 13, 2026 | Sep 3, 2026 |
| API price (input / output per 1M tokens) | $4 / $20 | $2 / $10 introductory, $4 / $20 after Nov 30, 2026 | $10 / $50 |
| Context | 1M | 1M unified input-output limit | 1,050,000 (128K max output) |
| Consumer access | Coming to Muse | Gemini app, AI Mode (Google AI Pro/Ultra) | ChatGPT plans |
Sources: Meta, Google, OpenAI. OpenAI charges more for prompts above 272K input tokens. Read more in our Gemini 4 Argon article.
On AI Rank's Arena overall leaderboard (snapshot published October 8, 2026), Gemini 4 Argon (high) ranks #1, Meta's earlier Muse Spark 1.3 (max) #9 and GPT-6 Astra (max) #35. Muse Wonder is not on Arena yet. Arena measures human preference, not price or agent ability.
→ Track it on AI Rank: Muse Spark 1.3 (max) — Arena rating, rank and history
Bottom Line
Use Muse if you want a personal agent that acts across your apps; use Muse Code if you want Meta's models in your terminal; call Muse Wonder through the Meta Model API if you build your own product.
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Prepared with automated editorial assistance and checked against official sources and dated AI Rank data on October 14, 2026. We did not test Muse or run our own benchmarks for this article.