34 The $5 MuseCode Everyday Plan

I have been using the $10 OpenCode Go plan these last few months and it gives me about $60 worth of MuseSpark 1.3 Contributor usage. Go might be offering $100 worth of DeepSeek V4.1 Flash usage, but its input and output token pricing makes MuseSpark far more cost efficient.

"You have to realize that $15 Muse Code sub with Muse Spark 1.3 gets you around $1500 worth of usage.", someone said to me on HN a few weeks ago. So I decided to try with the $5 MuseCode Everyday plan.¹ The following table has details of week one:²

It is computed using MuseSpark Contributor 1.3 pricing:

My usage is in the provider row. reminder/approval is the MuseCode harness using the model to manage the workflows.

This 6:1:93 (provider) input:output:cached ratio is not representative of regular coding workflows as I was doing a lot of OCR/vision stuff this week. The normal ratio in my case is around 2:1:97. However, this only controls how quickly you burn through the limit.

$4.60/wk is ~$20/mo. The $15 MuseCode High plan offers a 5x multiplier. So that ought to provide $100/mo of usage. If you can find a way to reduce the input token consumption of reminder/approval, you might get a ~30% boost. So $26/mo and $130/mo respectively for the Everyday and High plans. Nowhere close to claimed $1,500, which is only possible if you calculate usage based on MuseSpark 1.3 Standard pricing:³

So, the two MuseCode plans are pretty competitive with the two Go plans. The Everyday plan offers a lot of usage on the cheap and is easier to justify than Go Regular if you don't code on a daily basis. The High plan offers usage ($100-130) that is similar to the $40 Go Plus ($120).

Conclusion: Dollar-for-dollar, MuseCode Everyday < OpenCode Go Regular, but MuseCode High > OpenCode Go Plus as long as MuseSpark is the only model you use.