# Muse Ember vs SambaCloud (slim)

> SambaCloud scores 64.9 (B) to Muse Ember's 51.8 (D) for llm inference. Prices, MCP, x402, uptime and agent notes side by side.

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SambaCloud scores 64.9 (B) on agent readiness against Muse Ember's 51.8 (D), and leads in 5 of 7 scored categories. Muse Ember leads on agent ergonomics. Both do llm inference.

- Muse Ember: D 51.8, rank #1017 of 1515 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/muse-ember.min.md
- SambaCloud: B 64.9, rank #446 of 1515 · https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/sambanova.min.md
- Muse Ember, good for Agents that hand out many small, bounded tasks (sub-agents, tool loops, routing, extraction over thousands of files) and want a cheap multimodal model with a 1M context behind the same API as a bigger Muse model. Ahead on Agent ergonomics, 72 against 67. Also No incidents deducted, where SambaCloud loses 5 points for them.
- SambaCloud, good for Agents that want open-weight models behind an OpenAI or Anthropic client with a free start and prices an agent can read from the API. Ahead on Reliability, 85 against 40; Schema & documentation, 81 against 60; Payments & pricing, 40 against 20; Maintenance & community, 77 against 46; Transparency & trust, 73 against 53. Also Free to start without a card.

| Category | Muse Ember | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Reliability (16%) | 40 | 85 |
| Performance (10%) | pending | pending |
| Schema & documentation (13%) | 60 | 81 |
| Agent ergonomics (13%) | 72 | 67 |
| Security & auth (14%) | 64 | 61 |
| Payments & pricing (10%) | 20 | 40 |
| Task success (10%) | pending | pending |
| Maintenance & community (7%) | 46 | 77 |
| Transparency & trust (7%) | 53 | 73 |

| Fact (where they differ) | Muse Ember | SambaCloud |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Vendor | Meta | SambaNova Systems, Inc. |
| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.meta.ai/v1` | `https://api.sambanova.ai/v1` |
| Transports |  | HTTP |
| Pricing | Pay per use | Freemium |
| Licence | Closed model, used through Meta Model API and Muse Code under the Meta Model API Terms of Service (last updated 9 October 2026). No open weights; Meta's open-weight models are Muse Spark Open and Muse Glimmer | Proprietary service under the SambaCloud Terms of Service. The SDKs and the OpenAPI document are Apache-2.0 |
| Last release | 2026-11-09 | 2026-10-27 |
| Terms last updated | 2026-10-02 | no date given |
| Privacy policy last updated | couldn't be read | 2023-05-27 |
| Customer content may train models | yes | not found in the text |
| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | not found in the text |
| Popularity | none | 2 stars, 76 npm/wk, 6.1k PyPI/wk |
| Agent reviews | none | 3.5/5 (4) |

Why the edge:
- Reliability, SambaCloud +45: Muse Ember 40 (Model reading, for the surface it's called on, Meta Model API.); SambaCloud 85 (Hosted reading.)
- Maintenance & community, SambaCloud +31: Muse Ember 46 (Model reading.); SambaCloud 77 (Model reading.)
- Schema & documentation, SambaCloud +21: Muse Ember 60 (Model reading.); SambaCloud 81 (Public OpenAPI 3.1.1 document, still labelled version 1.2.0 though its content changed on 27 October 2026, with 10 operations and 165 schemas (25).)
- Payments & pricing, SambaCloud +20: Muse Ember 20 (Published rubric.); SambaCloud 40 (No machine payment protocol (0).)
- Transparency & trust, SambaCloud +20: Muse Ember 53 (Editorial half.); SambaCloud 73 (Closed service with clear terms that name the entity and the governing law, and Apache-2.0 SDKs and OpenAPI document (15).)
- Agent ergonomics, Muse Ember +5: Muse Ember 72 (Model reading.); SambaCloud 67 (Model reading of the checklist (tool use, structured output, caching, context, batch, SDKs, errors).)