# The open-source Meta Muse alternative.

An AI coworker for your team that acts on its own, on a machine you choose, with any model.

Facts checked 2026-11-10. All comparisons: https://pots.sh/alternatives.md

## Short answer

pi-durable-bot (Pots) is an open-source AI coworker that decides when to act and works on its own computer. Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, in its own app and in WhatsApp, on a cloud VM with Meta's Muse Spark model. The difference: Pots runs on any machine you choose, with any model, and keeps its log and memory there.

## What Muse is

Muse is Meta's personal AI agent that helps with your goals and suggests ideas without being asked. It runs on a dedicated cloud VM with a full browser, and a separate Sentinel agent must approve anything that reaches the internet. You talk to it in the Muse app or in WhatsApp, and it uses Meta's Muse Spark model.

Sources: [Introducing Muse](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/), [Muse product page](https://ai.meta.com/muse/)

## Pots and Muse, side by side

| | pi-durable-bot (Pots) | Muse |
|---|---|---|
| Source code | Open, MIT | Closed |
| Where it runs | Any machine you choose | The maker's cloud |
| Model | Any: your subscription, 40+ providers, or a local model | Meta's Muse Spark |
| Where you talk to it | Any channel (Slack, Discord, Telegram, and more) | Its own app, WhatsApp |
| Your data | On your machine, in each bot's folder | On the maker's cloud |
| Change the agent itself | Yes. It is your code | No. Connectors |
| Availability | Anyone, from npm | US, Canada and Singapore; in limited testing |
| Price | Free (MIT). You bring the machine and the model | Free with a usage limit; paid plans USD 20 and 100 a month |

Muse cells: Meta's public pages, checked 2026-11-10. Your data: with a local model for the agent and the judge, nothing leaves your machine; with a hosted model, requests go to the provider you chose.

## Pick Muse if

- You want a personal agent in WhatsApp, with nothing to install.
- You want a free plan that someone else hosts.
- You want a Sentinel agent to approve all internet access.
- You want to use its cloud browser yourself, too.

## Pick Pots if

- You want a coworker in your team's channels, not a personal app.
- You want the code, and to change the agent itself.
- You want any model, including a local one.

## Other open-source alternatives to Muse

Open-source projects on GitHub that name or tag Muse, found on 2026-11-10. We have not tested them.

- [HarnessMD/munder-difflin](https://github.com/HarnessMD/munder-difflin): MIT. Names dots, bots and muses.
- [Anil-matcha/open-duet](https://github.com/Anil-matcha/open-duet): Apache-2.0. Also names Grok Bot, Duet and dots.
- [nano-muse/nanoMuse](https://github.com/nano-muse/nanoMuse): GPL-3.0. A personal agent, tagged meta-muse.
- [rome-os/rome](https://github.com/rome-os/rome): MIT. Also names Grok Bot.

## Questions

### Is Meta Muse open source?

No. Meta's pages offer no source code or self-hosted version; Muse runs on a cloud VM the maker hosts.

### Where is Muse available?

Meta's posts name the US, Canada and Singapore, and Muse is in limited testing. Pots installs from npm on any machine you choose.

### Is Pots affiliated with Meta?

No. The other products as their makers described them in public, checked 2026-11-10; they may have changed since. Grok Bot, dots, Claude Duet, Claude Tag and Muse are products of SpaceXSI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. pi-durable-bot is not affiliated with any of them.

## Sources

- [Introducing Muse](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-personal-ai-agent/)
- [Muse product page](https://ai.meta.com/muse/)
- [Muse subscriptions](https://www.meta.com/help/subscriptions/1021145227643680/)
- [Muse for small business](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-muse-small-business/)
- [Muse in Singapore](https://about.fb.com/news/2026/10/muse-is-now-available-in-singapore-the-worlds-first-personal-ai-agent-built-for-everyone/)

The other products as their makers described them in public, checked 2026-11-10; they may have changed since. Grok Bot, dots, Claude Duet, Claude Tag and Muse are products of SpaceXSI, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. pi-durable-bot is not affiliated with any of them.

## Get started

```
npm install -g pi-durable-bot
pots init
```

Repository: https://github.com/Crokily/pi-durable-bot · For AI agents: https://pots.sh/agents.md