Muse Code by Meta
Ranked 17 of 18 AI coding agents by recommenders
Recommended for a cheap subscription that unlocks strong contributor model usage. Critics most often warn about data sharing, unreliable payments and rough edges.
Recommended for a cheap subscription that unlocks strong contributor model usage. Critics most often warn about data sharing, unreliable payments and rough edges.
30 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 23
- approval share
- 23%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cheap access via contributor model
“Muse code is rough around the edges. But combined with almost free model (muse spark contributor) it's actually pretty good.”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” “it's value with Muse Spark 1.3 Max-contributor beats everything else by a long shot”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “I really liked the contributor model in their harness.”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” Large usage for low price
“You have to realize that $15 Muse Code sub with Muse Spark 1.3 gets you around $1500 worth of usage.”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “reviewing with a $50/mo Muse Code Wonder Full seems like it can go own forever”
Comment from 29 Oct 2026 in “Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Data use and privacy concerns
“After everything that you have seen with Meta, would you really trust them with a coding agent?”
Comment from 5 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” “automatically loading personal files from ~/.codex and ~/.claude outside the selected workspace”
Comment from 9 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code Sends Codex and Claude Instructions to Meta by Default” “you pay them more to both lie to you and breach their contractual obligation to you”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” - Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder”
- Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2”
- Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder”
- Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2”
Payment and verification problems
“I find this too high risk, I entered my credit card, but can not set a limit.”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” “everytime I try and pay to try out Muse code I get an error message”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “immediately it asked for a selfie inage to verify Im a human”
Comment from 7 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” Low limits and no top-up
“The usage limits on their basic $5 code plan to try things out are ludicrously low”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “seems crazy given the pricing strategy to not have a top-up and pay as you go”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2” Bugs and sandbox failures
“their sandbox never worked across Mac or Linux (both very stock installs, nothing special)”
Comment from 12 Oct 2026 in “Muse Wonder” “The cursor position could not be read within a normal duration”
Comment from 6 Aug 2026 in “Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2”
Other AI coding agents people recommend
The four most recommended other AI coding agents, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | 4,522 | 3,788 | 54% | 13 | 6 mo417 owners | — |
| OpenAI Codex | 2,474 | 1,289 | 66% | 13 | 3 mo165 owners | — |
| OpenCode | 1,060 | 572 | 65% | 13 | 2 mo41 owners | — |
| Gemini CLI | 172 | 321 | 35% | 12 | 3 mo9 owners | — |
| Muse Code by MetaThis page | 7 | 23 | 23% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
All 33 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“reviewing with a $50/mo Muse Code Wonder Full seems like it can go own forever”
“You have to realize that $15 Muse Code sub with Muse Spark 1.3 gets you around $1500 worth of usage.”
“it's value with Muse Spark 1.3 Max-contributor beats everything else by a long shot”
“everytime I try and pay to try out Muse code I get an error message”
“Meta may be exposing your profile and email to other people right now”
“looks like Meta may be exposing your profile and email to other people right now”
“The usage limits on their basic $5 code plan to try things out are ludicrously low”
“their sandbox never worked across Mac or Linux”
“their sandbox never worked across Mac or Linux (both very stock installs, nothing special)”
“but it is still far behind claude and codex”
“automatically loading personal files from ~/.codex and ~/.claude outside the selected workspace”
“immediately it asked for a selfie inage to verify Im a human”
“Meta might have made a mistake by not offering a free tier”
“it's good that you get all the models rather than locking yourself into Claude models”
“I really liked the contributor model in their harness.”
“without warning I was restricted from using the contributor model”
“The cursor position could not be read within a normal duration”
“they "trust me". dumb fucks.”
“Subscription plans share data by default (it is possible to opt out though)”
“couldnt be used to vibe code a windows version of Muse Code itself”
“doesn't work in Australia either”
“Seems like I wasted my time setting up a account to test with the discounted pricing”
“It is the only part with value”
“seems crazy given the pricing strategy to not have a top-up and pay as you go”
“Muse code is rough around the edges. But combined with almost free model (muse spark contributor) it's actually pretty good.”
“I find this too high risk, I entered my credit card, but can not set a limit.”
“you can pay whatever they want, they will train and use your data”
“that is 10 to 100 requests, which is not a lot”
“you pay them more to both lie to you and breach their contractual obligation to you”
“workers in separate worktrees at once”
“It's not a good system obviously.”
“make it so none of this stuff goes through Facebook.com”
“After everything that you have seen with Meta, would you really trust them with a coding agent?”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.