Helios vs Meta Muse
A personal agent and a team runner.
Muse runs errands for one person on a Meta virtual machine with a consumer subscription. Helios runs workflows for a team on triggers, with one meter for the organization.
5,000 free credits to start.
Meta announced Muse on September 8, 2026. Meta calls it a secure, private personal AI agent that helps with people's goals and suggests ideas. Each user gets a dedicated virtual machine in Meta's cloud with its own browser, and a separate Sentinel agent checks everything Muse sends to the internet. Muse sends emails, books travel, fills forms, negotiates bills, and pays with one-time card numbers through Link by Stripe. It is aimed at consumers in the United States, on iOS, Android, WhatsApp, and muse.ai. Helios is aimed at engineers and operators. Each run gets its own sandbox with a shell and code execution, workflows start on schedules and events, and spend is one meter for the whole organization. The two products both give an agent a real computer. They differ on who the computer is for and how the work is triggered and shared.
At a glance
Side by side
Short facts for each product. The Meta Muse column comes from public pages on the date shown at the bottom of this page.
| Topic | Helios | Meta Muse |
|---|---|---|
| Computer per run | Yes, on every plan. Each run starts an isolated sandbox with shell, filesystem, and code execution. The sandbox is discarded when the run ends. | A dedicated virtual machine per user, called Muse Secure VM, with its own browser. It keeps working after the app is closed. |
| Tools and APIs | The full OpenAPI or GraphQL surface of each connected service, plus remote MCP servers. | Connected consumer apps for email, calendar, payments, health, shopping, and smart home, plus a browser for the open web. Users pick which apps to connect and can revoke access. |
| Triggers | Manual, cron schedule, signed webhook, and events from GitHub, Slack, and Plain. | Chat messages and Muse's own proactive suggestions. It comes back when something changes. No schedule or webhook trigger is described on the public pages we checked. |
| Human review | Agents propose edits to shared Library files. A person approves or discards each file. No approval step inside a run. | Approval gates before sensitive actions and a complete audit trail of past and planned actions.Requires the Library release. |
| Permissions | Four resource roles, groups, service accounts, and share expiry for every organization. | Per-app permissions chosen by the user. No team or organization features are described on the public pages we checked. |
| CLI | A terminal app and CLI with the same roles as the dashboard. JSON output when piped. | No CLI or developer API is described on the public pages we checked.Requires the CLI release. |
| Pricing model | Usage credits. 5,000 free credits, then $0.002 per credit. No seats. | Free tier with a usage meter. Paid plans at $20 and $100 per month for more capacity. |
| Organization spend limits | A monthly spending limit for the organization. Triggers stop when credits run out. Optional auto refill. | One subscription per person. The free tier shows a meter of remaining usage. |
| Memory or context | Shared Library files mount into every run. Changes go through review before they are saved. | Muse remembers preferences and details per user and makes unprompted suggestions. Users can tell it to forget specific things.Requires the Library release. |
| Availability | Web dashboard and CLI on any operating system. Available to teams now. | United States only, on iOS, Android, WhatsApp, and muse.ai. Meta AI glasses are coming soon. |
Where Meta Muse is strong
What Meta Muse does well
- A dedicated virtual machine per user with a visible browser, so the agent can use websites that have no API.
- Built-in payments. Checkout through Link by Stripe with one-time card numbers and purchase protection. Shop Pay and 1Password support are announced as coming.
- Approval gates before sensitive actions, a full audit trail of what the agent has done and plans to do, and a Sentinel agent that must approve any network access.
- Reach on consumer surfaces. Muse is available in the Muse app, on WhatsApp, at muse.ai, and is coming to Meta's AI glasses.
- A free tier that Meta says covers most of what people need, with Muse Spark, Meta's own model, included.
Where Helios is different
How Helios works instead
- Built for teams. Helios workflows are shared with people, groups, or the whole organization with four resource roles and share expiry. Muse is one agent per person.
- Triggers. Helios workflows start on a cron schedule, a signed webhook, or events from GitHub, Slack, and Plain. Muse is driven by chat and by Muse's own proactive suggestions.
- The full API of each tool. Helios indexes the complete OpenAPI or GraphQL surface of a connected service, plus remote MCP servers. Muse connects to consumer apps and drives them through its browser.
- Code execution. Each Helios run starts a sandbox with a shell, a filesystem, Bun, Node, and git. Helios does not include browser automation.
- Organization spend. Helios bills credits on one meter with a monthly spending limit. Muse is a per-person subscription.
Pricing
What each one charges
Public list prices, checked on 14 September 2026. Prices change, so confirm on each vendor's page before you decide.
Helios
5,000 free credits to start. Then $0.002 per credit. No seats. Monthly spending limit per organization. Enterprise pricing on request.
Helios pricing →Meta Muse
A free tier that Meta says covers most of what people need. Two paid plans at $20 per month and $100 per month with more capacity. Meta has not published a per-tier feature list. United States only as of September 2026.
Meta Muse pricing page →Checked on 14 September 2026
Using both
Helios and Meta Muse together
Most teams would use both for different work. Muse is for one person's errands, purchases, and bookings, and it can use websites that have no API. Helios is for work that must run for a team, on a trigger, against the full API of a tool, with roles and a shared spend limit. There is no importer between them. A task that runs in Muse becomes a Helios workflow by writing the steps as a prompt, connecting the same tools, and picking a trigger.
FAQ
Helios and Meta Muse, common questions
Run your first task.
5,000 free credits. Set an organization spending limit before your first workflow runs.
Meta Muse information is from public pages on 14 September 2026. Marks belong to their owners. Helios is not affiliated with Meta Muse. Tell us if something is out of date at [email protected].