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Baguette Bot vs Meta Muse: a personal AI agent from Meta, or one hosted in Paris?

Meta's Muse gives every user an AI agent on a dedicated cloud VM. Baguette Bot does the same from Paris. How they compare on availability, data, training, models, pricing and portability, with sources.

By the Baguette Bot team 4 min read
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Contents
  1. The short answer
  2. Where Muse is strong
  3. Where the two differ
  4. Which one should you pick?
  5. Sources

On 8 September 2026, Meta launched Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated cloud computer for each user and keeps working when you close the app. Within 24 hours it was number four on the App Store. It is the most mainstream agent product so far, and it arrives from the company that runs Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

Baguette Bot also gives your agents their own cloud computer, hosted in Paris. This comparison looks at what really separates the two, as of October 2026.

Several products are called "Muse" (Sudowrite has a fiction-writing model by that name, and Microsoft Research a game-generation model). This article is about Meta Muse, the personal agent.

The short answer

Meta MuseBaguette Bot
CompanyMeta Platforms, USBaguette Bot, France
AvailabilityUnited States at launch (adults)Worldwide, site and app in French and English
Agents' computerDedicated "Muse Secure VM" on Meta's cloud, region not publishedDedicated Linux computer per account, in Paris
ModelsMuse Spark onlyYour choice per bot (400+), or Mistral only
Training on your dataEligible conversations by default, opt-out available (per The Neuron)Baguette Bot does not train models
Entry priceFree tier, payment card requiredFree plan, then from €29/month
Export your agentNo official exportOpen .bot file

Where Muse is strong

Muse is impressive engineering, and some choices deserve to be copied:

  • A dedicated VM per user, with a browser, storage, sub-agents and scheduled jobs.
  • A security supervisor. A separate component, "Sentinel", controls network traffic and every connector action. Credentials sit in a separate service, so the agent itself never sees your passwords or card numbers.
  • Safer purchases. Purchases use single-use virtual cards through Stripe Link, and Muse asks before sending an email or buying anything.
  • Everywhere Meta is. iOS, Android, web, a Mac app, and WhatsApp.
  • A generous free tier, with a weekly token allowance and paid plans at around $20 and $100 a month according to press reports.

Where the two differ

Availability

Muse launched in the United States only. If you live in Europe, you can't use it today, and there is no announced date for the EU, where Meta's AI products have repeatedly been delayed by data-protection concerns.

Baguette Bot is available worldwide. The site and the app are in French and English.

Data, training and who can see it

Meta says Muse conversations and VM data are not shared with its advertising systems. But according to The Neuron's launch guide, eligible conversations are used to train Meta's models by default, with an opt-out. Meta has also said it can access your VM when needed to run, support or secure the service; staff access is restricted by policy, not by encryption. A "Muse Confidential VM", where only you would hold the key, has been announced but is not yet available.

Global News raised further questions at the end of September 2026. Muse needs very broad access to be useful, and it processes other people's emails as well as yours. Revoking a connection does not erase what the agent has already read. Some data also leaves the VM for model processing and telemetry.

Baguette Bot's platform, database and agents' computers are hosted in Paris by a European host. Baguette Bot does not train AI models. Your messages go to the provider of the model you pick for each bot. Each provider has its own policy, and our privacy policy lists them all. With sovereign mode, that provider is always Mistral AI, a French company, with no data retention.

Models

Muse runs only on Meta's own model, Muse Spark. You can't plug in Claude, GPT, Gemini or an open-weight model.

On Baguette Bot, each bot can use a different model, among more than 400. When a better or cheaper model comes out, you switch in two clicks.

Owning your agent

After a few months, an agent knows you: your preferences, your contacts, your routines. With Muse, that knowledge lives in Meta's VM. There is no official export. One developer managed to get Muse to archive its own VM files, about 2.7 GB of system files, memory, logs and skills. Meta said that seeing your files is expected, and that what users can see may change. That is a workaround, not a feature.

Baguette Bot exports one bot, several or all of them to a documented, plain-text .bot file: instructions, memory, routines, watchers and teams. Secrets and conversations are never included, and any app can implement the format.

Price

Muse's free tier requires a payment card, and its allowance is counted in tokens per week, which does not map to a fixed number of tasks. Baguette Bot's free plan includes up to 6 bots and a cloud computer; paid plans start at €29/month for Pro, with Max at €69 and Ultra at €129.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Muse if you are in the US, spend your day in WhatsApp and Meta's apps, want a strong free tier, and are comfortable with Meta holding your agent and its memory.

Pick Baguette Bot if you are outside the US, want your agents' computer and memory hosted in France, want to choose the model for each bot, and want to keep the option of taking your agents elsewhere.

For the bigger picture, read our comparison of the four main AI agents of 2026 and our guide to sovereign AI agents.

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