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Muse Ember vs Particle-1
Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 78 results on 4 sources that measured both models.
Of the 78 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.
Results as of 10 November 2026 (catalogue release 2026-11-10-8342a7178929).
Muse Ember or Particle-1? The short answer
Pick Muse Ember if quality matters most: it scores higher (Spring Prompt overall 65 against 31). Pick Particle-1 if cost matters more: it costs 43% less per product listing on CatalogBench.
- Spring Prompt overall: Muse Ember 65, Particle-1 31 (out of 100; how the score works).
- Particle-1 is cheaper to run: $0.001 against $0.002 per product listing on CatalogBench (43% less).
- On our own benchmarks, on the results both models have: Muse Ember does better for product listings, user surveys and marketing planning.
Head to head
Every fact side by side
| Muse Ember | Particle-1 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per million tokens | $0.10 in · $0.50 out | $0.050 in · $0.50 out |
| Blended (3 in : 1 out) | $0.20 | $0.16 |
| Cheapest host, blended | – | – |
| Cost per product listing (CatalogBench) | $0.002 | $0.001 |
| Cached input, per million | $0.004 cached input | – |
| Intelligence Index | – | – |
| Spring Prompt overall | 65 | 31 |
| Output speed, tokens a second | – | – |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
| Released | 9 Nov 2026 | – |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Developer based in | the US | – |
Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.
Which is better for what
Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.
Their slides, side by side
The same brief for both: Manchester store investment review for Hearthside Coffee, an invented company. First slide of each deck from DeckBench.
From our research
Every shared result
Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.
| Measure | Muse Ember | Particle-1 |
|---|---|---|
| CatalogBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results | ||
| Cost per productUS dollars, lower is better 6 · 3 of 30 measured | $0.0020 | $0.0012 |
| Reliably publish-ready% of products, higher is better 11 · 28 of 29 measured | 53.6% | 0.0% |
| Reliably publish-ready · sales brief% of products, higher is better 9 · 24 of 29 measured | 35.7% | 0.0% |
| DeckBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results | ||
| Cost per deckUS dollars, lower is better 5 · 2 of 30 measured | $0.0112 | $0.0086 |
| Deck ratingrating, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other deck was; the win rate counts wins against whichever decks a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 15 · 17 of 30 measured | 1,193 | 1,143 |
| Accurate decks% of tasks, higher is better 9 · 21 of 30 measured | 66.7% | 16.7% |
| ROASBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results | ||
| Overall scorescore out of 100, higher is better 8 · 16 of 30 measured | 51.8 | 43.3 |
| Audience scorescore out of 100, higher is better 18 · 14 of 30 measured | 60.6 | 65.1 |
| Business scorescore out of 100, higher is better 7 · 15 of 30 measured | 53.1 | 39.0 |
| SurveyBench measured by Spring Prompt · 3 results | ||
| Analysis ratingrating, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other analysis was; the win rate counts wins against whichever analyses a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 5 · 9 of 21 measured | 1,392 | 1,154 |
| Cost per taskUS dollars, lower is better 6 · 2 of 21 measured | $0.0213 | $0.0140 |
| Analysis scorepoints of 100, higher is better 10 · 8 of 21 measured | 84.3 | 88.4 |
Show all 78 results (66 more)
| Measure | Muse Ember | Particle-1 |
|---|---|---|
| CatalogBench measured by Spring Prompt · 27 results | ||
| Channel compliance% of products, higher is better 1 · 1 of 30 measured | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Channel rules broken% of products, lower is better 1 · 17 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 0.6% |
| Channel rules broken · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 16 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 0.6% |
| Conflicts caught% of conflicts, higher is better 1 · 1 of 30 measured | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Content quality% of checks, higher is better 23 · 14 of 30 measured | 95.6% | 97.1% |
| Content quality · sales brief% of checks, higher is better 4 · 21 of 30 measured | 98.5% | 96.1% |
| Decision accuracy% of decisions, higher is better 20 · 14 of 30 measured | 95.8% | 96.8% |
| Failed outputs% of products, lower is better 28 · 1 of 30 measured | 2.4% | 0.0% |
| Failed outputs · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Field accuracy% of missing fields, higher is better 14 · 14 of 30 measured | 93.7% | 93.7% |
| Invented values% of filled values, lower is better 18 · 14 of 30 measured | 1.7% | 1.7% |
| Missing UK information% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Missing UK information · sales brief% of products, lower is better 1 · 1 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Not findable% of products, lower is better 9 · 1 of 30 measured | 3.6% | 0.0% |
| Not findable · sales brief% of products, lower is better 14 · 1 of 30 measured | 3.6% | 0.0% |
| Output tokens per producttokens, lower is better 7 · 4 of 8 measured | 3,816 | 2,180 |
| Publish-ready listings% of products, higher is better 8 · 29 of 30 measured | 71.4% | 0.0% |
| Publish-ready listings · sales brief% of products, higher is better 11 · 28 of 30 measured | 54.2% | 0.0% |
| Time per productseconds, lower is better 5 · 22 of 30 measured | 8.10 | 23.5 |
| Unsupported claimsclaims per product, lower is better 8 · 18 of 30 measured | 0.29 | 0.71 |
| Unsupported claims% of products, lower is better 7 · 17 of 30 measured | 7.1% | 19.6% |
| Unsupported claims · sales brief% of products, lower is better 12 · 14 of 30 measured | 33.3% | 49.4% |
| Unsupported claims · sales briefclaims per product, lower is better 10 · 19 of 30 measured | 0.69 | 2.36 |
| Wrong attributes% of products, lower is better 5 · 21 of 30 measured | 13.7% | 19.6% |
| Wrong attributes · sales brief% of products, lower is better 8 · 16 of 30 measured | 14.9% | 17.9% |
| Wrong category or variant% of products, lower is better 5 · 5 of 30 measured | 1.8% | 1.8% |
| Wrong category or variant · sales brief% of products, lower is better 3 · 6 of 30 measured | 0.6% | 1.8% |
| DeckBench measured by Spring Prompt · 15 results | ||
| Caveat dropped% of tasks, lower is better 29 · 1 of 30 measured | 33.3% | 0.0% |
| Clean layout% of tasks, higher is better 27 · 23 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 16.7% |
| Design quality% of the maximum, higher is better 21 · 24 of 30 measured | 56.7% | 54.4% |
| Draft figure quoted% of tasks, lower is better 12 · 23 of 30 measured | 16.7% | 50.0% |
| Findings missing% of tasks, lower is better 20 · 1 of 30 measured | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| Head-to-head win rate% of comparisons, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other deck was; the win rate counts wins against whichever decks a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 16 · 18 of 30 measured | 51.9% | 50.0% |
| Layout defects% of tasks, lower is better 27 · 23 of 30 measured | 100.0% | 83.3% |
| Misleading metric used% of tasks, lower is better 26 · 1 of 30 measured | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| Output tokens per decktokens, lower is better 4 · 2 of 9 measured | 22,094 | 16,952 |
| Presentable decks% of tasks, higher is better 14 · 14 of 30 measured | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Recommendation late or wrong% of tasks, lower is better 17 · 17 of 30 measured | 33.3% | 33.3% |
| Slides needing work% of tasks, lower is better 15 · 9 of 30 measured | 50.0% | 33.3% |
| Time per deckseconds, lower is better 4 · 18 of 30 measured | 30.2 | 154 |
| Unsupported claims% of tasks, lower is better 15 · 1 of 30 measured | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| Unsupported numbers% of tasks, lower is better 24 · 1 of 30 measured | 16.7% | 0.0% |
| ROASBench measured by Spring Prompt · 6 results | ||
| Consistency scorescore out of 100, higher is better 4 · 17 of 30 measured | 38.6 | 27.8 |
| Contribution profitsimulated US dollars, higher is better 13 · 10 of 30 measured | $621,558 | $684,624 |
| Cost of a runUS dollars, lower is better 4 · 3 of 30 measured | $0.0297 | $0.0234 |
| Months over budgetmonths of 12, lower is better 1 · 1 of 30 measured | 0 | 0 |
| Planning scorescore out of 100, higher is better 8 · 26 of 30 measured | 55.0 | 54.3 |
| Return on ad spendprofit per $1 spent, higher is better 5 · 15 of 30 measured | $0.70 | $0.51 |
| SurveyBench measured by Spring Prompt · 18 results | ||
| Head-to-head win rate% of comparisons, higher is betterThe rating weighs each win by how strong the other analysis was; the win rate counts wins against whichever analyses a model happened to meet, so the two can disagree. 6 · 11 of 21 measured | 62.2% | 49.7% |
| Leading or double-barrelled questions% of tasks, lower is better 9 · 3 of 21 measured | 33.3% | 11.1% |
| Mistaken next steps% of tasks, lower is better 9 · 9 of 21 measured | 22.2% | 22.2% |
| Numbers right% of answers, higher is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured | 100.0% | 100.0% |
| Objectives unanswerable% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 12 of 21 measured | 0.0% | 11.1% |
| Output tokens per tasktokens, lower is better 7 · 4 of 11 measured | 40,298 | 26,601 |
| Precision ignored% of tasks, lower is better 11 · 1 of 21 measured | 11.1% | 0.0% |
| Research scorepoints of 100, higher is better 10 · 9 of 21 measured | 86.9 | 89.7 |
| Sound research% of tasks, higher is better 8 · 8 of 21 measured | 22.2% | 22.2% |
| Stakeholder's view presumed% of tasks, lower is better 1 · 1 of 21 measured | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Survey plan scorepoints of 100, higher is better 8 · 9 of 21 measured | 92.8 | 92.6 |
| Survey structure% of tasks, lower is better 9 · 16 of 21 measured | 22.2% | 33.3% |
| Time per taskseconds, lower is better 3 · 16 of 21 measured | 73.2 | 252 |
| Traps handled% of traps, higher is better 3 · 4 of 21 measured | 98.4% | 95.7% |
| Traps missed% of tasks, lower is better 3 · 5 of 21 measured | 22.2% | 33.3% |
| Unsupported findings% of tasks, lower is better 5 · 10 of 21 measured | 22.2% | 55.6% |
| Wrong numbers% of tasks, lower is better 11 · 1 of 21 measured | 11.1% | 0.0% |
| Wrong recommendation% of tasks, lower is better 12 · 5 of 21 measured | 22.2% | 11.1% |
Compare them with other models
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Quick answers
Is Muse Ember better than Particle-1?
Pick Muse Ember if quality matters most: it scores higher (Spring Prompt overall 65 against 31). Pick Particle-1 if cost matters more: it costs 43% less per product listing on CatalogBench.
Which is cheaper, Muse Ember or Particle-1?
Particle-1 is cheaper to run: $0.001 against $0.002 per product listing on CatalogBench (43% less).
Which is better for product listings, Muse Ember or Particle-1?
Muse Ember ranks 9 of 29 models on sale for turning a sparse product feed and photos into listings that can go live, against 28 for Particle-1.
Which is better for decks from an analysis, Muse Ember or Particle-1?
Muse Ember ranks 15 of 29 models on sale for turning a finished analysis into a deck you could present as it is, against 17 for Particle-1.
Which is better for user surveys, Muse Ember or Particle-1?
Muse Ember ranks 5 of 20 models on sale for planning a user survey and reading its results without being misled, against 9 for Particle-1.
Which is better for marketing planning, Muse Ember or Particle-1?
Muse Ember ranks 8 of 29 models on sale for planning a year of ad spend without overspending, against 16 for Particle-1.
Which is better for speed under pressure, Muse Ember or Particle-1?
Muse Ember ranks 19 of 32 models on sale for good decisions against a real clock (fast chess), against 33 for Particle-1.
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