# Meta launches Muse Code, terminal coding agent powered by Muse Spark 1.2

> Meta has released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta that is built to take on whole software tasks rather than just autocomplete lines. It can plan a change, write the code, run tests, and validate the result across large repositories, and it can keep persistent agents running in the background while fanning work out to parallel sub-agents on bigger jobs. The pricing is the interesting part. Meta is charging $1.25 and $4.25 per million input and output tokens, but drops that to $0.10 and $0.20 if you let the company train on your code, an explicit trade of privacy for cost. Zuckerberg is positioning it as a cheaper alternative to Anthropic and OpenAI's coding offerings. That framing tells you where the competition is heading. Coding agents have quickly become one of the most commercially valuable uses of AI, and Meta is trying to buy its way into the market on price while using customer code as fuel for its own models.

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## Wortins' read

Meta has released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta that is built to take on whole software tasks rather than just autocomplete lines. It can plan a change, write the code, run tests, and validate the result across large repositories, and it can keep persistent agents running in the background while fanning work out to parallel sub-agents on bigger jobs. The pricing is the interesting part. Meta is charging $1.25 and $4.25 per million input and output tokens, but drops that to $0.10 and $0.20 if you let the company train on your code, an explicit trade of privacy for cost. Zuckerberg is positioning it as a cheaper alternative to Anthropic and OpenAI's coding offerings. That framing tells you where the competition is heading. Coding agents have quickly become one of the most commercially valuable uses of AI, and Meta is trying to buy its way into the market on price while using customer code as fuel for its own models.

## Source

[Read the full story at TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/05/meta-launches-muse-code-an-ai-agent-for-large-code-bases/)

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