Muse Image
Meta
- Released
- July 7, 2026
- Data date
- September 26, 2026
- Access
- Price
- Per image
Muse Image’s defining feature is Meta’s concrete image agent. It can call search and coding tools, refine its own drafts, and spend more computation at test time. Meta links the coding step to more accurate charts and QR codes, while multiple reference images can remain consistent across editing turns.
Meta lists the Meta AI app, meta.ai, Instagram Stories in the United States, and WhatsApp in selected countries as access surfaces. Images from the Meta AI app and meta.ai also carry Content Seal. The invisible provenance signal is intended to survive cropping, compression, resizing, and screenshots. It is therefore a provenance signal, not a visible watermark replacement.
Specifications and access
| Specification | Value and source |
|---|---|
| Weights | ProprietarySource |
| Access | API, WebSource |
| Availability | Meta AI app, meta.ai, Instagram Stories in the US, and WhatsApp in selected countriesSource |
| Image capabilities | Combine multiple reference images and refine edits consistently across turnsSource |
| Tool use | Uses search and code to produce, for example, more accurate charts and QR codesSource |
| Provenance | Content Seal applies an invisible watermark intended to survive cropping, compression, resizing, and screenshotsSource |
Published benchmarks
Text to Image Arena
Elo ratings summarize pairwise comparisons within this leaderboard. They are not percentages. The scale does not express absolute quality or linear gaps between models.
higher is betterAs of September 22, 2026Scale: 0 Elo - 1,197 Elo
Methodology and context
- Metric
- elo-rating
- Scale
- No upper bound is documented. The chart spans the recorded values and zero.
- Participants
- 30
- Sample
- 7,344
Image Editing Arena
Elo ratings summarize pairwise comparisons within this leaderboard. They are not percentages. The scale does not express absolute quality or linear gaps between models.
higher is betterAs of September 22, 2026Scale: 0 Elo - 1,180 Elo
Methodology and context
- Metric
- elo-rating
- Scale
- No upper bound is documented. The chart spans the recorded values and zero.
- Participants
- 23
- Sample
- 10,814
Recorded measurement details
Text to Image Arena (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 1112
- Score
- 1112
- Metric
- elo-rating
- Unit
- Elo
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source rank
- 7
- Sample
- 7344
- Confidence interval
- 10
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-22
- USD price per 1,000 tokens
- 10
Image Editing Arena (Show measurement, test conditions, and source)
- Source value
- 1116
- Score
- 1116
- Metric
- elo-rating
- Unit
- Elo
- Direction
- Higher is better
- Source rank
- 6
- Sample
- 10814
- Confidence interval
- 8
- Retrieved at
- 2026-09-22
- USD price per 1,000 tokens
- 10
Popularity
25.2 / 100
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Sources and data date
| Type | Evidence and data date |
|---|---|
| Additional source | Meta (retrieved September 26, 2026) · Meta introduction to Muse Image and Muse Video · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | Image pricing (retrieved September 22, 2026) |
| Additional source | Meta (retrieved September 26, 2026) · Meta Model API pricing and rate limits · Editorial description reviewed October 2, 2026 |
| Additional source | Artificial Analysis (retrieved September 22, 2026) |
| Additional source | OpenRouter: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Vercel AI Gateway: Popularity index (derived), CC BY 4.0 |
| Additional source | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |