Morgan's first user-side cost check on Muse Wonder: weekly limits hit inside 12 hours, cost-per-task "looking very high"
From the AI digest for 2026-10-13
What happened: Morgan, amplified via a Peter Steinberger RT (published Monday, October 13, 2026, around 6:07 AM ET): "Out of the gate, I am finding Muse Wonder to be a very expensive model to use." At Low Effort, Morgan hit the weekly usage limit on the Muse Code plan "in less than 12 hours"; on VulcanBench, an effort-level run could not be completed before limits were hit. The comparison point in the post: Astra "did every effort level, in under 12 hours, for less than $50" — making Muse Wonder, on Morgan's read, more expensive and a lot slower. Morgan also posted preliminary token-use results comparing Muse Wonder to Opus 5.5 and GPT 6.1 Sol, with the model "looking like an accurate model" but cost-per-task "looking very high" — and the practical choice framed as either paying "a small fortune" to benchmark the model given its token appetite, or stretching the benchmark over a month or longer.
What's genuinely new: A development of the storyline "ai — Meta bets on Muse consumer agent": the October 12 entry recorded the Muse Wonder / Muse Wonder Full launch (claimed to go "toe-to-toe with the industry's best") with three explicit watch items — "independent benchmarks vs the claim, the Muse-on-Wonder cutover actually shipping, API pricing/limits." This post executes two of the three: it is the first independent named-user benchmark exercise against the launch claim, and the first pricing/limits datapoint. The sourcing is stronger than the digest's usual anecdote layer — Morgan is already in the record as the agent race's verdict-giving practitioner (the Oct 2 three-way Grok Bot/Muse/Dots verdict; the Oct 4 Frontier-v4 model-layer reversal) — but it remains single-source, self-run, and partial: the full writeup Morgan has owed since Oct 4 is again absent, and "VulcanBench" is not an eval the record has seen before. The friction direction matters for the race ledger: Meta's Wonder arrives with token-hungry economics and weekly caps inside seven days of launch, while cost-per-task has been a running weapon in the harness race.
Watch: Morgan's full VulcanBench writeup (and whether the promised Oct 4 material finally surfaces); whether the weekly caps are launch-window throttling or the standing Muse Code shape; whether the Muse-on-Wonder cutover survives these token economics; whether Meta or any second reviewer contests the cost-per-task read.