Muse Ember Slashes Costs ~17x With Nearly No Intelligence Loss

andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-11-10

Andrew Carr says the new Muse Ember model is a dramatic cost reduction with almost no usability loss. Artificial Analysis data: Muse Ember (max) scores 36 on the Intelligence Index vs 37 for Muse Spark 1.3, but costs $0.14 per Intelligence Index task vs $2.39, with $0.10/$0.50 per 1M input/output tokens vs $1.25/$4.25.

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