Muse Ember Small Model Hits Efficiency Frontier at One-Third of Haiku Cost
The interesting shift here is that small-model competition is now argued in cost-per-task terms rather than benchmark leaderboards, a framing that maps directly onto procurement decisions. Teams running high-volume workloads like classification, extraction, and batch processing should re-run their cost baselines against Haiku before renewing API commitments. The luna comparison also hints at a tiered small-model lineup that deserves watching as pricing details surface.
