Muse Ember matches Haiku 5.5 at a third of the cost

Meta's newest model Muse Ember scores 36 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching Claude Haiku 5.5 (max) at a third of the Cost per Task Muse Ember is Meta's newest efficient-tier model line, with the same input and output token prices as Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-6 Luna Key Takeaways: ➤ On the Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task Pareto frontier at both max and xhigh effort. Muse Ember (max) is the cheapest model scoring 36 or higher, at $0.14 per task, and Muse Ember (xhigh) scores 34 for $0.12. Claude Haiku 5.5 (max) costs almost 3x more at $0.41 for the same score as Muse Ember (max). Muse Ember (max) is also about 4x cheaper than DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (max, 33, $0.60) and GLM-5.3-Flash (28, $0.58) ➤ 8 points behind Muse Wonder for about 1/50th of the Cost per Task. Muse Wonder (max) scores 44 at $6.95 per Intelligence Index task ➤ Stands out on AutomationBench-AA. Muse Ember (max) scores 68.1% on AutomationBench-AA, level with Muse Wonder (max), and beats Claude Haiku 5.5 (max) on GDP.pdf (22.8% vs 20.8%), but trails it on AA-Briefcase (1521 vs 1574 Elo) ➤ Mixed in agentic coding in our Intelligence Index evaluations. It beats Claude Haiku 5.5 (max) on…