Meta Muse Ember is the company’s smallest and most cost-efficient Muse model, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. Meta introduced it on 9 November 2026 for high-volume agent work, according to VKTR.
The model, identified as muse-ember-1.0, is available through Muse Code and the Meta Model API. Meta says it is the first model it trained using Muse Wonder Full, and that it was assessed under its Superintelligence Scaling Framework before release. An 11 November roundup by Newskart also describes Muse Ember as aimed at repetitive, high-volume tasks.
What Can Meta Muse Ember Do?
Meta Muse Ember accepts text, images, audio and video. VKTR reports a 1 million-token context window and a maximum output of 512,000 tokens, with support for the Responses API.
Meta positions it for tool calls, coding subtasks, routing, data extraction and long-document parsing. These are repetitive jobs where the cost of each call adds up quickly.
How Much Does Muse Ember Cost?
Per million tokens, the listed prices are $0.10 for input, $0.004 for cached input and $0.50 for output. As a simple calculation from the listed rate, 10 million input tokens would cost $1 in input charges, before any output or caching differences.
What It Means for Indian Businesses
Neither source says anything about India-specific availability, local data processing or rupee pricing for Muse Ember, so Indian companies should confirm those details with Meta before planning around it.
In general terms, low per-token pricing matters most to firms that run automation at scale, such as document parsing, customer-query routing or data extraction. That is our reading of the pricing, not a claim made by Meta.
Industry Reaction and Expert Commentary
Rafael Jegundo, an AI advisory executive quoted by VKTR, advised teams to “start from the cheapest model that clears the bar.” No reaction from Indian technology companies was found in the sources reviewed.
Meta’s own performance claims, as reported by VKTR, are that Muse Ember matches Claude Haiku 5.5’s top score at roughly one-third of the cost and exceeds every GPT-6 Luna reasoning setting. VKTR notes these are Meta’s claims and are not independently verified in its article. It also reports the model sits on the efficiency frontier of the Artificial Analysis leaderboard at about $0.14 per task.
What Happens Next?
The main open question is how the model performs in independent testing, since the benchmark comparisons come from Meta. Meta’s stated goal, as quoted by VKTR, is “personal superintelligence.” The sources do not announce an India launch timeline or further Muse Ember variants.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Meta Muse Ember?
It is Meta’s smallest and most cost-efficient Muse model, built for repetitive, high-volume tasks and introduced on 9 November 2026.
How much does Muse Ember cost?
The listed price is $0.10 per million input tokens, $0.004 per million cached input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.
Where can developers use Muse Ember?
It is available through Muse Code and the Meta Model API, according to VKTR.
Source: VKTR, 9 November 2026; Newskart, 11 November 2026.
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