# Agent Zero vs Muse Code (slim)

> Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) to Agent Zero's 54.2 (C) for agent harnesses. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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Muse Code scores 61.3 (C) on agent readiness against Agent Zero's 54.2 (C), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Agent Zero leads on reliability and payments & pricing. Both do agent harnesses.

- Agent Zero: C 54.2, rank #710 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/agent-zero.min.md
- Muse Code: C 61.3, rank #487 of 993 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-code.min.md
- Agent Zero, good for A technical owner who wants an agent with its own Linux machine, reachable from Telegram, WhatsApp or email, with scheduled tasks and editable memory. Ahead on Reliability, 57 against 45; Payments & pricing, 60 against 20. Also No key needed to call it; Open source.
- Muse Code, good for Developers who want Meta's Muse models, Muse Wonder Full included, in a terminal or CI agent with the sandbox and approvals on from the first run. Ahead on Schema & documentation, 84 against 64; Agent ergonomics, 79 against 62; Security & auth, 67 against 54. Also No incidents deducted, where Agent Zero loses 6 points for them.

| Category | Agent Zero | Muse Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 57 | 45 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 64 | 84 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 62 | 79 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 54 | 67 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 60 | 20 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 75 | 75 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 55 | 57 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Agent Zero | Muse Code |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Agent Zero, s.r.o. | Meta |
| Auth | None | OAuth or key |
| Pricing | Free | Paid |
| Licence | MIT | Proprietary binary, used under the Meta Model API Terms of Service, which cover Meta's coding harness. Subscriptions are also under the Meta Subscription Terms of Service. The TypeScript and Python SDKs in the linked repository are MIT. |
| Read-only variant documented | no | yes |
| Last release | 2026-09-23 | 2026-10-11 |
| Terms last updated | no document linked |  |
| Privacy policy last updated | no document linked | couldn't be read |
| Popularity | 19k stars | 63k npm/wk |