# Bad Influence story: Arena ranks Meta's Muse Ember (Max) most cost-efficient in Agent Arena

Active · 2 articles · 1 source · First reported 11-11 15:06. Times are ET.
Story page: https://badinfluence.news/story/de351a56-2758-4c52-87bd-d561124efa7c

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Latest update (11-11 15:06): Muse Ember (Max) ranks #25 in Agent Arena, level with Muse Wonder (Max)

Overview: Arena reports that Meta's Muse Ember (Max) leads Agent Arena on cost-efficiency, at about $0.02 per task with a +1.7% net improvement across 6k real-world agentic sessions. Arena says Ember costs roughly 4x less per task than GPT-6 Luna (Max) and Claude Haiku 5.5, with performance on par across the three.

Arena also reports that Ember finishes about 12x faster than Luna (Max) and 3.5x faster than Haiku 5.5, using 72% and 52% fewer output tokens. A separate Arena post ranks Ember #25 overall, level with Muse Wonder (Max) at #24.

Coverage timeline (newest first):
1. 11-11 15:06 · Arena · [Muse Ember (Max) ranks #25 in Agent Arena, level with Muse Wonder (Max)](https://badinfluence.news/items/uowjizmjtpdjrmewxxkru76hn)
2. 11-11 15:06 · Arena · [Arena ranks Meta's Muse Ember as the most efficient model in Agent Arena](https://badinfluence.news/items/g2uhaen4pyt8y2btzz5bgcquo)
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