# Meta's Muse Ember Matches Claude Haiku 5.5 on Artificial Analysis at About One-Third the Cost per Task

Meta's smallest model costs about $0.14 per index task against $0.41 for Haiku, but trails Haiku by more than seven points on FrontierCode 2.0 and ranks thirteenth of 36 on the independent Vals Index.

- Published: 2026-11-11T06:08:31.146Z
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- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
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- Sources: [Polylog editors](https://polylog.news), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-spark-meta-model-api/), [Technology.org](https://www.technology.org/2026/11/10/meta-muse-ember-low-cost-ai-model-pricing-benchmarks/), [Vals AI](https://www.vals.ai/models/meta_muse-ember)

Meta released Muse Ember, its smallest model, on November 9. The Russian-language channel AI ML Big Data describes it as built for looped agent tasks: tool calls, parsing long documents, routing and writing code fragments. The channel repor…

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