Meta releases Muse Ember, its smallest and cheapest Muse model, for agent workloads
Confirmed
The takeaway
Meta Superintelligence Labs released Muse Ember 1.0 on 9 November 2026, a small reasoning model for high-volume agent work (tool calls, routing, extraction) priced at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens, with a 1M-token context.
Status
- Claim
Confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 10 November 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra193 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5132 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen223 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7162 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 132 days before it.
Key facts
- Price: $0.10 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens up to 200K-token prompts ($0.004 cached input); $0.30 / $1.50 above 200K
- Up to 1M input tokens; text, image and audio input; six reasoning levels (minimal to max)
- Meta: ‘Muse Wonder plans, Muse Ember handles the volume’; claims it beats Claude Haiku and GPT-6 Luna on the AA index per cost
- Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index about 34 (xhigh) and 36 (max), roughly $0.12-0.14 per index task (read from AA’s chart by Simon Willison)
- Simon Willison: same short-prompt price as GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5; its pelican SVGs comparable to Muse Wonder’s at about 1/40 the price
What happened
Meta added a low-cost tier below Muse Spark and Muse Wonder, aimed at the many cheap calls an agent system makes. The model id is
muse-ember-1.0. TechCrunch did not report open weights.
Why it matters
It puts Meta in the cheap “workhorse” tier against GPT-6 Luna, Claude Haiku 5.5 and Chinese flash models, where most agent tokens are spent.
Sources
3 sources from 3 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
3 sources: 1 primary, 1 press, 1 reaction
Primary
- Meta: Introducing Muse Emberresearch.meta.ai, official
Press
- TechCrunch: Meta releases Muse Embertechcrunch.com, press
Reactions
- Simon Willison on Muse Embersimonwillison.net, discussion
Changes
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