Updated
Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 5
Meta Debuts Muse Code at $1.25 per Million Tokens to Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic
Updated
Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 5

Meta Debuts Muse Code at $1.25 per Million Tokens to Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic

3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 5

Summary

  • Muse Code launched in beta as Meta’s first coding agent, letting developers install it with one command to plan changes, write code and validate software tasks inside a single interface.
  • Muse Spark 1.2 powers the tool and was trained alongside Muse Code, which AI chief Alexandr Wang said improves coding performance over July’s Muse Spark 1.1 release.
  • Pricing starts at $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens, while a contributor tier is priced at more than 10 times cheaper for users who opt in to help improve the model.
  • Meta is pitching the product on cost rather than top-end capability against Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s Codex, while also beginning to accept requests for zero-data retention for enterprise customers.

Insights

Will Meta’s aggressive pricing for Muse Code lower development costs, or just create expensive technical debt from AI-generated vulnerabilities?
Could trading your proprietary code for a massive discount on Meta's new AI agent secretly compromise your company's intellectual property?
Why are tech giants suddenly prioritizing zero-data retention and extreme discounts over raw AI capability in the coding agent wars?