# Bad Influence story: Meta's Muse Ember tops small models on Arena's Code Arena WebDev board

Active · 3 articles · 2 sources · First reported 11-09 13:20. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/8c9c773a-934a-41c2-af64-0d2f8797ef2b

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Latest update (11-09 13:56): Muse Ember generates websites for about $0.04 each, Meta says

Overview: Arena reports that Meta's Muse Ember (Max) scores 1608 points on the Code Arena WebDev leaderboard, the highest of any small model, ahead of Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) at 1595 and GPT-6 Luna (Max) at 1578. Arena's first report put Ember's median cost per task at $0.06, about half of Luna's and 3.7 times lower than Haiku's. A later Arena post puts the median at $0.03, compared with $0.06 for Luna and $0.11 for Haiku. All three models share the same API price of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.

In Arena's timed tests, Ember completed 25 complex generations in about 2 minutes per task at a total cost of $1. Meta and Alexandr Wang repeated the ranking and a figure of about $0.04 per website, citing Arena's test of 20+ websites and animations generated in one go.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-09 13:56 · Alexandr Wang · [Muse Ember generates websites for about $0.04 each, Meta says](https://badinfluence.news/items/qkho8k2n9h83qvq7n69chnlvd)
2. 11-09 13:22 · Arena · [Arena ranks Meta's Muse Ember top small model in Code Arena WebDev](https://badinfluence.news/items/i1u8mylx3aulcroir2zzxjcx9)
3. 11-09 13:20 · Arena · [Meta's Muse Ember tops small models on Code Arena WebDev at 1608 points](https://badinfluence.news/items/gz0u2odymh1eikpm5zrcvq6d2)
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