Meta's New Mac Coding Agent Costs Up to 20x Less If You Let Meta Train on Your Data

[MacRumors]

Meta today launched Muse Code, a terminal coding agent available for macOS and Linux. Muse Code is in beta, and it is powered by Muse Spark 1.2, Meta's newest model.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Muse Code can accomplish complete software engineering tasks across large repos. It can plan out changes, write code, and validate results using multiple persistent subagents.

Muse Code is Meta's equivalent of OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Code, and it is Meta's first major push into agentic coding.

There are several default skills available, such as /plan for turning a task into an approval-gated plan, /grill for stress testing a plan, and /goal for working toward the successful completion of an objective. Muse Code maintains an append-only local event log of every model call, tool run, approval, and edit, so it can resume where it stopped if it crashes.

Muse Code can be used through the Mac's terminal after a one-command install, and there is no dedicated app available. The model is priced at $1.25 for 1 million input tokens and $4.25 for 1 million output tokens, but Meta is offering a discount for users who give the company permission to use their prompts and completions to train future AI models.

With the Contributor tier enabled for Meta model training, Muse Spark 1.2 is priced at $0.10 for 1 million input tokens and $0.20 for 1 million output tokens. The Standard tier costs more and does not let Meta use prompts to train its models.

The more affordable Contributor tier is rate limited at 60 requests per minute and 2,100,000 tokens per minute, while the Standard tier allows for 3,000 requests per minute and 4,000,000 tokens per minute.

Article Link: Meta's New Mac Coding Agent Costs Up to 20x Less If You Let Meta Train on Your Data

 

[inventor7777]

Wow, that sounds like an amazing idea! Let's allow Meta to openly train on the data, and not just secretly like I am sure they are doing anyway...

But if you are using Meta products anyway, it's basically a free discount as they are likely using your personal data directly or indirectly to achieve similar results on the Standard tier.

 

[alphaod]

They should offer a 100% discount if they're allowed to use my data without paying me anything,

 

[ctkd]

Absolutely not

 

[Hammerd]

AI is just a gigantic vacuum that will suck everything, personal data, knowledge and the whole humanity

 

[gleepskip]

After the results I saw today, Meta would have to pay me to use it.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Help me help you…out of your job.

 

[rgeneral]

They should be paying me to use their agent.

 

[PowerButton]

Meta has to be one of the worst companies when it comes to users and their data. I can’t imagine anyone giving them access to their code unless all you do is vibe coding and have no IP to speak of. Even then, you would have to be pretty desperate.

 

[Astuces iOS]

At this point, even musk ai (grok) is better

 

[jbc25]

That's a HARD pass

 

[subjonas]

I'll happily let them train on my code. I'm not a programmer so it will be button mashing jibberish.

 

[benface]

I would gladly use this to build a robot with a single goal: burn Meta to the ground.

 

[jz0309]

Who in their right mind would sign up for this

 

[Sosab123]

THE A.I FACTIONS HAVE APPEARED!

On 1 side you have Grok, it’s probably gonna undress you if it gets the chance.

On the other side you have Muse, 20x cheaper rates but its need your personal info

Then the other side you have ChatGPT, who convinced Ivy to sell $200 products, which sounds like depreciation to me.

Crazy stuff going on with these models. They are legit turning into what seems like factions or governments.

We must be in the A.I governance stage. All the models have an official trade off.

All that’s left is mandatory allegiance coughcough

 

[Genelec8341]

What is that image accompanying the article supposed to be? Seems pretty arbitrary.

 

[dss33k]

I’d rather sign up for the CCP state sanctioned models than this company.

 

[Hajj.david]

At this point, even musk ai (grok) is better

Despite the negativity, grok is an excellent coding and research AI

 

[imamacperson]

No just no!

 

[johnsawyercjs]

"Hey kids, I've got candy in the van!"

 

[Starfia]

Maybe I'd sign up if it included a three-month trial of the Metaverse with automatic payments enabled by default.

 

[Steve01234]

F' that. Claude isn't that bad to pay for, and after you use Fable which is fightingly good why on earth would you want to go back to a noob AI coder ? its about less time, better quality, not cheaper, slower, and bad quality ? 🤣🤦🏻‍♀️

 

[mashdots]

I'm all set, thanks.

Just as a side note, I have a bone to pick with whoever popularized using multiplication to describe how much less something is. I know it's a semantic nit pick but mathematically speaking, multiplication increases the product unless you're multiplying by a decimal less than one. I hope I'm not the only one finds this annoying because it makes no goddamn sense.

 

[UMHurricanes34]

Does anyone here use Meta’s AI models? Genuinely curious. You never hear anything about them.

Meta is a company I wouldn’t touch with a 10 foot pole. I’d much sooner force myself to use Copilot.

 

[Genelec8341]

The only Meta product I use is Messenger and that's only because my wife forces me to.
If it wasn't for her insistence, I wouldn't use any Meta product at all.