22.10.2026·00:00:57

Meta's best model costs $50 a month

Meta's Muse came out of nowhere with a frontier model that beats OpenAI. There are two: Muse Wonder on the API, and Muse Wonderful, which you only get on the $50-a-month plan. It's second only to Claude Opus 5.5, and people burned through their quota so fast that Meta reset the limits. From Cmd+AI episode 70, our weekly live show covering AI, design and dev. Catch us live every Friday and join in the banter. #CmdAI #AI #Meta #Muse #LLM

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So, Muse literally came out of nowhere and launched a frontier model that actually beats OpenAI. And by the way, there's two models. There's Muse Wonder and there's Muse Wonderful. And the first one, Muse Wonder, is available through their API. However, Muse Wonderful is only available through their plan. But then Muse Wonderful is second only to Claude Opus 5.5, but it's only the power usage that gets you Muse Wonderful. So, it's $50 a month to get that. And I wasn't willing to pay that. It was really expensive from what I see. Even though you're paying for the $50 a month plan, people were chewing through that. And then Alexander Wang found out that he's they've been seeing quota usage. Um Okay. more. So, they reset set the limits even after that. Like, this is a this is an expensive model. Command AI.