Muse Code
BetaMeta's terminal-based AI coding agent with persistent async background agents
Meta's first coding agent and a credible beta entry with genuinely novel architecture — persistent background agents, worktree-isolated sub-agent fan-out, and a crash-safe event log. Powered by the co-trained Muse Spark 1.2, it lands second only to Claude Opus 5 on Meta's own published benchmarks. Vendor-run numbers, beta status, and closed-source binary distribution temper the promise. Best for developers evaluating coding agents who want to test persistent-context architecture and aggressive contributor-tier pricing.
Agent loop + persistent background agents hold full coding-session context — the model reads, acts, and continues across steps without context reset.
Is it right for you?
Good for
- Persistent multi-step coding sessions — background agents retain repo context across tasks, avoiding redundant exploration and reducing steering
- Long-horizon autonomous tasks — event-log crash recovery enables 24-hour runs; agent resumes precisely where it stopped with no lost work
- Parallel feature work — worktree-isolated sub-agents build multiple features simultaneously without collisions (Meta demoed six game features in parallel)
- Cost-sensitive experimentation — contributor tier at ~$0.10 input / $0.20 output per 1M tokens undercuts every comparable coding agent
- Multimodal repo work — accepts video fly-throughs and images as coding context; no incumbent terminal agent ships this as a first-class flow
Not good for
- Production workflows requiring independently verified benchmarks — all published results are vendor-run in Meta's framework with no third-party reproduction
- Windows development — macOS and Linux only at beta launch; no Windows build exists
- Open-source or self-hosted pipelines — closed-source binary installed via shell script; no public repository, API-dependent, no weight access
- Teams with strict data governance — contributor tier sends prompts and completions to Meta's training pipeline; opting out costs 12.5x more on input
Our experience
Pricing
Paid- No training on your data: prompts and completions are not used to train Meta models
- 3,000 requests per minute / 4M tokens per minute per team
- 1M token context window
- Web search grounding: $2.50 per 1,000 queries
- Cached input: $0.15 / 1M tokens
- Prompts and completions used to train future Meta models
- 100 requests per minute / 3M tokens per minute per team
- 12.5x cheaper on input, 21.25x cheaper on output vs standard tier
- Cached input: $0.002 / 1M tokens
- Aimed at prototyping and experimentation where training on your data is acceptable
No verdict changes yet
The clock starts day one — changes land here as our verdict evolves.
Sources
- The Register — Meta wants to get inside your terminal with its new coding agentAug 2026
- Meta AI Research Blog — Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2 announcement (official)Aug 2026
- Engadget — Meta introduces Muse Code, its take on a coding agentAug 2026
- Meta — Muse Code product page (official)Aug 2026
- Meta — Muse Code documentation (official)Aug 2026
- MarkTechPost — Meta AI Releases Muse Code (Beta)Aug 2026
- VentureBeat: Meta enters AI coding warsAug 2026
- Meta Model API — pricing and rate limits (official)Aug 2026
- Vorp Labs — Muse Spark 1.2 release reviewAug 2026
- explainx.ai — Muse Code BetaAug 2026
- TechCrunch: Meta launches Muse CodeAug 2026
Verification log
- Pricing— No changes
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