What to do when Muse Code hits its usage limit: 8 ways to keep coding in 2026

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product, and it runs Muse Code beside Claude Code and Codex. We checked every price and limit below against Meta’s, Anthropic’s, OpenAI’s and OpenCode’s own pages on November 12, 2026, and we say where another way is the better pick, including the free ones that don’t need Enjoy.

The ways to keep coding, compared

Meta’s subscription guide gives two choices when a plan runs out: “If you reach your plan’s usage limit, you can upgrade to the next plan, or wait until your limit refreshes.” Neither it nor the Muse Code page offers a way to buy extra usage, and on the top plan there’s only one choice: “If you are on the Maximum Usage plan, you must wait for your limit to refresh.”

Meta sizes only the smallest plan. Everyday Usage, at $5 a month, lets you “Send 10-50 prompts every 5 hours, including image and video uploads,” and the others are multiples of it. Muse Code tracks a weekly allowance too, which Meta doesn’t size. So start with when yours comes back. Version 1.4.13 added a way to see it. Its changelog says “muse usage shows your subscription allowance (window and weekly use, reset times, tier) without running a model turn,” and “Warnings near your usage limit show the remaining allowance and reset time above the message queue.”

Way	Cost, checked November 12, 2026	How soon you’re back	Best for
Wait for the limit to refresh	Free	At the reset muse usage shows	A window that resets in a few hours
Upgrade your plan	High Usage $15 a month; Power $50; Maximum $200, prorated	Right away	Running out most weeks
Turn Contributor mode back on	No money; Meta trains on your content	From your next request	Only if you turned it off, and accept the trade
A Meta API key	Per token: Muse Spark 1.3 is $1.25 in and $4.25 out per million; Muse Ember $0.10 and $0.50	Right away	A rare heavy day, scripts and CI
Claude Code	Claude Pro $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly; Max $100; Ultra $200	Right away, in a new conversation	A Claude plan you already pay for
Codex	Free with GPT-6 Luna in the desktop app, subject to rollout; ChatGPT Plus $20 a month; Pro from $100	Right away, in a new conversation	A ChatGPT plan, or a free start
OpenCode, with free or local models	Free	Right away, in a new conversation	No bill and no plan to run out
Enjoy	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and one computer (pricing)	Right away, in the same conversation when it began in Enjoy	Several labs’ agents, so the next limit doesn’t stop the work

Prices are each company’s US list prices, before tax. Waiting and OpenCode’s free models cost nothing extra; the other ways add to what you pay Meta.

Wait for the limit to refresh

Best for: a window that resets in a few hours.

Run muse usage in a terminal, or watch for the warning above the message queue, to see when each limit comes back. When it does, /resume --last resumes the most recent session in this workspace, and /resume picks an older one.

Price: free.

Watch for: the weekly limit. Five hours is the only window Meta names, but muse usage reports weekly use too, so the reset you’re waiting for can be days away. Meta’s docs don’t say Muse Code carries on by itself when usage returns. Its changelog says only that “Usage limit stops explain when you can continue,” so plan to resume it yourself. And check what the stopped task left behind before you do: “Resume does not de-duplicate work that was in flight.”

Upgrade your plan

Best for: running out most weeks, not once in a while.

“From an interactive session, type /upgrade to open Accounts Center in your browser,” says Meta’s subscription guide, and “A plan upgrade takes effect immediately. You will be charged a prorated amount for the rest of the current billing cycle.” Each step buys a multiple of Everyday Usage: High Usage has “5x more usage,” Power Usage 20 times, with “Access to the most powerful Muse models, including Muse Wonder Full,” and Maximum Usage 80 times. By those multiples, an Everyday-sized allowance costs $5 on Everyday, $3 on High, and $2.50 on Power and on Maximum.

Price: High Usage is $15 a month, Power Usage $50 and Maximum Usage $200, per the Muse Code page. Meta lists no free plan.

Watch for: going back down is slower than going up. “A plan downgrade takes effect at the start of your next billing cycle,” so an upgrade for one busy week lasts until the next billing cycle. Above Power, a bigger plan doesn’t add a better model, only more usage. Maximum is the ceiling, where you can only wait. And “Subscription benefits and availability may vary by region.”

Turn Contributor mode back on

Best for: people who turned it off and are comfortable letting Meta train on their work.

“Muse Code subscriptions default to Contributor mode,” Meta’s guide says, and in it “you get more usage from your plan in exchange for letting Meta use your content to train future Meta models.” It’s a setting in Muse Code, and “The change applies from your next request.” For one run only, muse and muse exec take --contributor-mode on, or MUSE_CONTRIBUTOR_MODE set to 1. Your models stay the same: “Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full are each available in either mode on the plans that include them.”

Price: no money. The cost is your content, used for training.

Watch for: Meta doesn’t say how much more usage it gives. If the code isn’t only yours, such as an employer’s or a client’s, check before you turn it on. The setting is per computer: “Muse Code saves the setting on the computer you’re using,” and “On a new computer, your first interactive session turns Contributor mode on and shows a notice that says so.” If you never turned it off, it’s already on, and this way adds nothing.

A Meta API key

Best for: a rare heavy day, and scripts and CI.

Muse Code can run on an API key in place of your plan, and “Usage through any additional API keys you create is billed pay-as-you-go.” Its authentication page says “An API key always takes priority over a browser sign-in,” checking META_API_KEY first, then a key you stored with muse auth set, then your browser sign-in. Set META_API_KEY in the terminal you run Muse Code from, and with it unset, your sign-in and plan are used again.

Price: per token, from Meta’s pricing page. Muse Spark 1.3 is $1.25 per million input tokens, $0.15 cached and $4.25 output. Muse Wonder is $4 and $20. Muse Ember, for “Efficient execution of high-volume, repeated work,” per Meta’s model guide, is $0.10 and $0.50 up to 200,000 input tokens. Above that, “A request with more is billed at the long-context rates in full,” $0.30 and $1.50. Meta charges your card “Whenever your current balance reaches your payment threshold amount,” and “Any remaining balance is automatically charged on the first of each month.”

Watch for: the strongest model stays on the plans: “the higher-capability variant of Muse Wonder is available only in Muse Code, so no model ID on Model API selects it.” A stored key is harder to undo than an environment variable, because muse logout “clears the stored browser session and any stored key,” so you sign in again afterward. And Muse Code’s background work bills too. Its extending guide says “Each enabled observer makes its own model calls,” and its workflows page says “a broad workflow can use substantially more tokens than a normal turn.”

Claude Code

Best for: a Claude plan you already pay for.

Claude Code is Anthropic’s coding agent, and it can pick up a project Muse Code has been working in, because they read the same instructions. Muse Code’s configuration page says “At each directory level, it checks AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .agents/AGENTS.md, then .claude/CLAUDE.md,” and Claude Code “can also read a repository’s AGENTS.md files in place of CLAUDE.md.” To carry the conversation over, Muse Code’s /export transcript writes the on-screen conversation to a .txt file, which you can give Claude to read.

Price: Claude’s pricing includes Claude Code on Pro, Max and Ultra. Pro is $20 a month, or $17 a month billed yearly, Max is $100 and Ultra $200. The free plan leaves Claude Code out.

Watch for: Claude has limits of its own. Pro lists “More usage than Free” every five hours and every week, though when a limit stops a task, “Claude Code waits in the open session and continues the task on its own after the limit resets.” Our Claude Code usage limit guide covers the rest. It starts a new conversation, so tell it where things stand, and it’s a second subscription beside Meta’s.

Codex

Best for: a ChatGPT plan you already pay for, or a free start.

Codex is OpenAI’s coding agent, in the ChatGPT desktop app, a CLI and an IDE extension, and it starts from the same file: “Codex reads AGENTS.md files before doing any work.”

Price: Codex’s pricing gives Free and Go, at $8 a month, “GPT-6 Luna at Standard speed in the desktop app, subject to rollout.” Plus, at $20, adds Codex “on the web, in the CLI, in the IDE extension, and on iOS” with GPT-6.1 Sol, and Pro is $100, $200 or $500.

Watch for: on Plus, OpenAI estimates 15 to 160 local messages every five hours with GPT-6.1 Sol, but “These estimates are not fixed message limits,” and “Weekly limits may also apply.” “Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit.” Your chats count too: “ChatGPT Work and Codex share usage.” It starts a new conversation, so hand it the transcript. Our Codex usage limit guide covers what to do when it runs out.

OpenCode, with free or local models

Best for: routine work with no bill and no plan to run out.

“OpenCode is an open source coding agent,” says its homepage, and “OpenCode comes with a set of free models. No account needed.” For a model on your own computer, its providers page says “Start Ollama and pull a model. OpenCode probes http://127.0.0.1:11434, discovers completion models, and adds them to /models without an account connection.” To stay with Meta’s small model, its models page lists Muse Ember 1.0 at the same $0.10 and $0.50 per million tokens as Meta’s API. Our local model guide covers the setup and the memory it takes.

Price: free, with its free models or a model on your own computer. Its paid set, OpenCode Go, has “curated models from $10/month.”

Watch for: the free models are listed as free or free “for a limited time,” and their terms differ. Several say “The team is using this time to collect feedback and improve the model,” and one says “Its provider retains your data and may use it for model training.” It’s a different agent, so it starts a new conversation.

Enjoy

Best for: several labs’ agents in one place, so when Muse Code’s limit stops a conversation, it carries on with another.

Enjoy is a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux that runs Muse Code, Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, and local models through OpenCode, each on the plan you already have. When Muse Code runs out of usage in Enjoy:

• The conversation waits, then carries on. It shows Waiting for usage, and Enjoy “waits until the limit resets, then tries again, and the agent continues where it left off.” Messages you queued wait with it.
• Or another agent picks it up. Select Stop waiting, choose Claude Code or Codex, then the button that starts with Retry with. “The new agent gets the conversation so far, including replies from other agents, before it works on your message.” There’s no transcript to export.
• Usage in view. The agent settings show Muse Code’s limits, such as 5 hours and Weekly, with when each one resets.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and one computer; each other computer is $9.99 a month, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing. Muse Code still runs on your Muse Code plan, which Meta bills separately.

Watch for: Enjoy doesn’t add usage to Meta’s plans. Its help says “Enjoy doesn’t sell, buy or change plans,” so upgrades still happen in Meta’s Accounts Center. Muse Code “uses one account in every project,” so Enjoy can’t move the work to a second Meta account the way it can for Claude Code, Codex and Grok Build. Muse Code reports its limits only when it replies, so they show “once Muse Code has replied to a message in the project,” and with an API key, “Muse Code doesn’t report usage.” Contributor mode stays as you set it in Muse Code’s settings.

Waiting has conditions too: “Your computer must be on, with Enjoy open, when the usage resets,” and “Waiting doesn’t keep the computer awake.” Enjoy imports past Claude Code and Codex conversations, not Muse Code’s, so a session you began in Muse Code’s terminal starts over as a new conversation. Enjoy isn’t open source, it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends, and scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open. If all you want is to wait, muse usage and /resume cost nothing.

When to stay on your plan and wait

If your window resets in a few hours, waiting is free. If you run out once in a while, an upgrade means paying the difference until your next billing cycle for a rare afternoon, and Meta sells nothing smaller, so wait or switch agents for that day. Upgrade when it happens most weeks, and Power, at $50, is where the price of each Everyday-sized allowance stops falling.

Before you pay for more, see what spent the last lot, because Muse Code does a lot of work you don’t ask for by name:

• Background observers. “All four observers, including verification, are on by default,” says Meta’s extending guide, and “the default set of four adds token usage.” The changelog says “/usage totals now include background work and break it out in a separate Observers row.”
• Workflows. “Each child makes its own model calls,” says the workflows page, and /workflows shows each one’s token usage.
• Agents at once. “One agent tree can execute eight agents at once by default, including the root agent.” Set agents.execution_capacity, from 1 to 64, in settings.json to run fewer.
• Headless runs. “Cap a run’s work with --max-model-steps so a stuck task can’t loop indefinitely.”

How we compared

We read Meta’s Muse Code page, subscription, authentication, configuration, interactive, extending and workflows docs, its changelog, its model guide and its API pricing; Anthropic’s pricing and Claude Code docs; OpenAI’s Codex pricing and AGENTS.md docs; and OpenCode’s homepage and docs, all on November 12, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote each company’s own words for its limits and leave out what it hasn’t documented, such as the size of Muse Code’s weekly allowance and the wording of its limit message. We didn’t test these setups ourselves. Plans and limits change often, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.