Meta: Muse Ember vs Particle AI: Particle-1

For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Particle-1 costs $0.17 and Muse Ember costs $0.23, so Particle-1 is about 1.3 times cheaper for the same work.

Both read up to 1,048,576 tokens at once, roughly 1,573 pages of text.

Only Muse Ember offers audio input and video input.

Across the 18 tasks where they differ, Muse Ember scores higher on 18 (SQL Generation, Code Review, Code Completion and others).

Muse Ember was released in November 2026 and Particle-1 in October 2026.

Pick Muse Ember if you need audio input, video input or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Particle-1 if you need lower cost.

Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.