Meta says Muse Ember can outperform pricier AI models, making it a budget-friendly option for developers. Meta
Meta has launched Muse Ember, its smallest and cheapest AI model yet. It isn’t trying to solve the world’s hardest problems. Instead, Meta designed it for the small, repetitive tasks AI agents keep doing, like using tools, fixing small bits of code, sorting requests, grabbing data from files, and reading lengthy documents.
Releasing Muse Ember today — our smallest model that delivers higher intelligence per dollar than others in its class. Built for token-heavy work that agents repeat all day: tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, extraction, and long document parsing. Available today on the Meta…
— Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) November 9, 2026
Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch on X, saying you get more brains for your money with Muse Ember than with similar small models.
How cheap is Muse Ember?
It’s a lot cheaper than you’d expect from a model this capable. You pay $0.10 for every million tokens you send in and $0.50 for every million tokens it sends back. According to Meta, Claude Haiku 5.5 needs to spend about three times as much to hit the same top score,
