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Summary: The 30-Second Answer Yes, it is free, but metered. You get a weekly token allowance; when it runs out you wait for the reset or upgrade. Power is $20/month for 500M Muse tokens a week, Max is $100/month for 3B. No feature is behind the paywall. Paying buys volume, not capability. US only for now. Meta’s own help page says Muse “and Muse subscriptions are in limited testing and aren’t available in all locations yet.” Four ways in: iPhone, Android, the web at muse.ai, and WhatsApp. The Mac app arrived on 17 September and is a direct download from Meta, not a Mac App Store install. Glasses are “coming soon.” It does not run on your computer. Every task executes inside a dedicated Linux virtual machine in Meta’s cloud. The Mac app is the bridge that lets that remote agent reach your local Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes. It asks before anything irreversible. Sending, buying and writing to connected accounts all need your approval, and every outbound network request is gated. Meta shipped Muse on 8 September 2026 and it went to number one on the US App Store inside ten days. It is the company’s first serious productivity product, and the pitch is not “another chatbot” but an agent that finishes tasks: clears your inbox, books the trip, fills the form, places the order. ...

Summary: Where to Find Astra Not free. Free and Go plans do not include Astra; their default model stays GPT-5.6 Luna. On Plus, Astra does not appear in regular Chat. Access arrives through ChatGPT Work and Codex. On Pro, Business and Enterprise, it shows up in the model picker under the Pro option, labelled GPT-6 Pro. The model underneath is Astra. Enterprise workspaces get it off by default at launch. An admin has to enable it. Codex CLI 0.153.0 or newer is required, and the desktop app needs updating too. In the API the model id is gpt-6-astra: 1.05M token context, 128K output, $10 in / $50 out per million tokens. Our GPT-6 Astra launch write-up covered what the model is, the benchmark table and the price tag. Two days later the question landing in the inbox is a different one: “I pay for Plus, there is no Astra anywhere in my model picker, where is it?” ...