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Meta Sets India Pricing for Muse AI Agent: ₹1,799 and ₹8,999 Tiers

Meta has set rupee prices for its Muse AI agent ahead of an official India launch: ₹1,799 for the Power tier and ₹8,999 for the Maximum tier. The prices are broadly in line with U.S. rates, and it is unclear whether they are final.

By Alistair Sterling
November 10, 20262 min read
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Meta Sets India Pricing for Muse AI Agent: ₹1,799 and ₹8,999 Tiers
Meta Sets India Pricing for Muse AI Agent

Meta has set rupee subscription prices for its AI agent Muse ahead of an official India launch, with the Power tier at ₹1,799 and the Maximum tier at ₹8,999, according to pricing seen as of November 9, 2026. The company has not announced the figures publicly. Meta did not respond to requests for comment.

Subscriptions bought through Google Play and Apple's billing systems carry marginally higher charges. The prices are broadly in line with U.S. rates.

It is unclear whether the prices are final or could change when Muse officially launches in India.

Fast growth, no Indian app listing yet

Muse lets users interact with it on WhatsApp. It has clocked more than 10 million downloads within two months of its launch. Users hand it online tasks such as handling customer-service interactions, filling out web forms, planning travel and booking flight tickets.

The WhatsApp link could give Muse a distribution edge in India, where the messaging platform has a massive user base. The service currently offers a free tier with generous usage limits in the U.S., Canada, Japan and Singapore.

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A San Francisco-based rival, Instinct, also works through WhatsApp. It is available globally with no paid subscription tier.

How Indian users get in today

Muse is not listed in Indian app marketplaces, and Indian users are currently placed on a waitlist. Its web and WhatsApp interfaces are still accessible in the country.

Some users register through a VPN connected to one of the supported markets. Those accounts keep working in India after the VPN is switched off. Indian-issued cards can buy subscriptions as long as the billing territory is set to a supported market.

Functionality in India remains restricted. Muse does not accept user authorization to make card payments on their behalf, because that depends on integrations with payment processors that do not operate in India.

An executive at a major Indian payment gateway provider, which has worked on agentic payments, denied last month that the company was working with Muse's developers on such capabilities.

Regulatory questions

Personal AI agents such as Muse have not triggered the cybersecurity concerns that surround unreleased frontier models such as Anthropic's Mythos. Officials have worried that advanced frontier models could expose vulnerabilities and trigger data breaches across government and corporate networks.

Agents raise a different question: whether autonomous digital agents should be treated as human users when they access online services.

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