Free but counted in tasks.
And a task is not a fixed size. A chatbot meters messages, which are roughly all the same; an agent meters jobs, and one job can be three steps or thirty. That makes your weekly allowance unusual: it is denominated in a unit whose size you largely control, which means how you phrase a task matters to your bill as well as to your result.
Yes, Muse is free to use
A free tier with weekly limits, and paid tiers that raise them
The app is not a purchase. You download it, sign in with a Meta account, and start running tasks against a weekly allowance. When that allowance runs out you wait for the reset or you move to a paid tier there is no per-task top-up to buy in a panic, and nothing to activate with a key.
We deliberately do not quote a number of tasks per week. Meta publishes the current allowance, it changes between releases, and a count on a third-party page is the kind of thing people plan around long after it stopped being true. Check it in the app. Getting the app.
An agent’s meter behaves unlike a chatbot’s
With a chat assistant, limits are intuitive. A message is a message. Twenty of them is twenty units of work, give or take, and if you run out you know roughly what you spent it on.
An agent task is not like that. It is a plan with an unknown number of steps inside it. “File these receipts by month” might be three operations; “tidy up my files” might be thirty, because the agent has to search, infer what you meant, check, and sometimes ask. Both appear in your allowance as one task.
Two tasks that look identical in a usage counter can differ by an order of magnitude in what they actually consumed. The counter tells you how many jobs you started, not how much work you asked for.
That has a pleasant consequence: the habits that make an agent useful are the same ones that make it cheap. Naming the folder, giving a date range, saying what it must not touch and how it knows it has finished all of that removes searching and guessing. You were going to do it anyway for the sake of the result. The four parts of a task.
It has an unpleasant one too. A failed or abandoned run still did the work, so assume it still counts. That is a concrete reason to read the plan Muse shows you before it starts rather than after: a correction at that point costs nothing, and a restart costs a whole task.
Five things that make a task expensive
None of these is a trick. They are the same qualities that make a task come back with the right answer.
| What drives cost | Expensive version | Cheaper version |
|---|---|---|
| Unstated scope | Costly Tidy up my files.It has to search everywhere to discover what you meant. |
Cheap PDFs in Downloads from the last 30 days.It goes straight there. |
| No finish condition | Costly It decides when done, which often means doing more to be safe. | Cheap Show me the list when you are done.A clear stopping point. |
| Number of areas touched | Middling A job spanning files, calendar and mail has more to coordinate. | Cheap One area at a time, which is also the safer habit. Areas. |
| Retries after a bad run | Costly Assume a failed run still counted. Two attempts is two tasks. | Cheap Read the plan before it starts. Corrections there are free. |
| Volume in one go | Middling A thousand files is more work than fifty, within one task. | Cheap Not worth splitting artificially one big task beats ten small ones. |
Note the last row runs the other way. Because the allowance counts tasks rather than steps, batching genuinely related work into one well-scoped task is cheaper than splitting it. Splitting is for safety, not economy.
Where Muse sits in Meta One
Since September 16, 2026 the paid tiers across Meta’s products sit under one subscription rather than the older patchwork. These are the US monthly rates at launch.
A single app or feature. The cheapest way in if there is exactly one thing you want more of.
Core$7.99 / moBundles three standalone plans plus more AI usage. Around $11 if bought separately.
Premium$19.99 / moCore with higher limits again, plus the premium-only capabilities.
Creator & business$14.99–$499 / moVerified badges, impersonation protection, support, scheduling, analytics, team accounts.
Which tier carries which Muse allowance is Meta’s to publish and worth checking directly, because the mapping between tiers and per-product limits is exactly the sort of detail that moves. Rates vary by region, app and account type. Full Meta One breakdown · Core vs Premium.
Who actually needs to pay
Four profiles, and only one of them clearly should.
Occasional delegation
A few tasks a week: filing, extracting a figure, drafting something you will send yourself. This is what the free tier is sized for and it rarely binds.
Free tier is fineDaily, single-area jobs
You have found two or three routines that work and you run them most days. Watch whether you hit the ceiling before assuming you will.
Wait and seeLong multi-area runs, daily
Jobs that span files, mail and calendar, several times a day, as part of how you work. This is the profile a paid tier exists for.
Paying makes senseHeavy image or video use
If your limits come from generating pictures and clips, that is Muse Image and Muse Video metering, not the agent. Different problem.
Check what metersThe honest test: run on the free tier for two weeks without changing how you work. If you never hit the ceiling, the question answers itself and if you hit it on day three, you will know exactly which kind of task did it.
Six habits that stretch the allowance
All six make the results better too, which is the only reason to bother with any of them.
Name the scope every time
Which folder, which week, which account. The single biggest difference between a three-step task and a thirty-step one. How to phrase it.
Read the plan before it runs
A correction before the first step is free. A restart after the last one costs a whole task, and you have to wait for the reset.
Batch related work into one task
Because the meter counts tasks, ten files and a hundred files in one well-scoped job cost the same. Splitting for tidiness is expensive.
Keep the tasks that worked
Paste your good ones into a note. Reusing a phrasing that ran cleanly avoids the exploratory version that did not.
Do not use an agent for chat
Questions, drafting and summarising belong in Meta AI, which has its own free tier. Spending an agent task on something a chat box does is the commonest waste.
Grant the area the task needs
A run that stalls on a missing permission may still have consumed its attempt. Sort permissions once rather than discovering them mid-task. Permissions.
Pricing and limits questions
Is Muse free?
Yes. There is a free tier with weekly limits, and paid tiers raise them. The app itself is not a purchase, and anything asking you to buy the download or enter a licence key is not from Meta. How to get it safely.
How many tasks do I get on the free tier?
Meta publishes the current allowance and it changes between releases, so check in the app rather than trusting a third-party number. More useful to understand: a task is a variable-cost unit, so the count alone does not tell you how far it goes. Why.
Why do agent limits work differently from chatbot limits?
A chat message is roughly one unit of work. An agent task is a plan with an unknown number of steps in it, so two tasks that read identically in a counter can differ by an order of magnitude in what they consumed.
What makes a task expensive?
Vague scope, no finish condition, several permission areas, and retries. A task naming the folder and the date range does less work than the same task left open. The five drivers.
Does a failed task still count?
Assume it does, since the work was performed either way. That is the practical reason to read the plan before a run rather than after a correction there costs nothing, a restart costs a whole task.
Which Meta One tier includes Muse?
Meta One consolidated the paid tiers from September 16, 2026: standalone from around $2.99 a month, Core at $7.99, Premium at $19.99, creator and business from $14.99. Which tier carries which Muse allowance is published by Meta and worth checking directly. The tiers.
Do I need to pay if I already pay for Meta AI features?
Since the September 2026 consolidation the paid tiers sit under one subscription rather than several, so check what your existing plan already covers before adding anything. Meta One vs free.
Can I use Muse without paying at all?
For most people, yes. The tasks an agent is genuinely good at filing, sorting, extracting, drafting are the cheap ones, and the free tier tends to bind only on long multi-area jobs run several times a day. The four profiles.
Does pricing matter if I am outside the United States?
Not yet. Muse shipped US-only at launch, so the regional gate settles the question before pricing does. Meta AI has a much broader rollout and its own separate pricing.
Is Muse pricing the same as Muse Image and Muse Video?
No. Those are separate capabilities with their own limits, and image and video generation is what exhausts a free tier fastest across Meta's products. The agent is a different meter entirely. The creative two.
Scope it well and the free tier goes further.
The habits that keep a task cheap are the same ones that make it come back right. You were going to need them anyway.
Independent guide not affiliated with Meta. Prices shown are US monthly rates at the September 16, 2026 Meta One launch and vary by region; allowances change between releases, so check in the app rather than relying on any figure here.