Comparison
Orion vs Meta Muse
Side by side
Everything in the Meta Muse column is taken from their own public pages as of October 2026. Products change; check theirs before you decide. Where they publish nothing about something, this says so rather than guessing.
| Orion | Meta Muse | |
|---|---|---|
| One daily brief across every source | Yes — one page at 6am, synthesized from email, calendar, finance, health, code and notes | Not published — check their site |
| Two-way SMS (text it, it answers and acts) | Yes — US numbers, opt-in, verified by code, reply STOP to end | Not published — check their site |
| Personal wiki with unified memory | Yes — pages for people, projects and topics that grow every night from your calendar and email, woven into every brief. You can read, edit and undo all of it | Remembers details you mention, and you can ask it to forget something (Meta's announcement) |
| Semantic search over your own history | Yes — across every past brief, wiki page and message, by meaning | Not published — check their site |
| Health and fitness data in the brief | Yes — Oura, Garmin, Withings, Strava: sleep, readiness, HRV, activity | Not published — check their site |
| Finance in the brief | Yes — Plaid, YNAB, Splitwise: balances, budget, unusual activity | Not published — check their site |
| Developer sources | Yes — GitHub and Linear: what moved, what is blocked on you | Not published — check their site |
| Pricing | $20 a month, or $192 a year — one plan, everything included, with a 14-day free trial | Meta says Muse is "free for most of what people need"; its announcement does not list paid plans |
| Compliance certifications | None yet, stated plainly on the security page. AES-256-GCM encrypted tokens, TLS, per-user isolation in the database | None listed. Meta has published its safety architecture and runs a bug bounty paying up to $300,000 |
| Asks before it acts | Yes — anything that leaves your account waits for your OK, on the web or by texting back a code. Every change is logged with an Undo | Yes — a separate safety agent allows, denies or asks, using rules you set; every checkout asks |
| Your data used to train AI | No — never used to train general AI models, never sold, never used for advertising | By default — conversations and actions may be used to improve Meta's models after key personal details are removed; you can opt out |
| Books, buys and calls for you | No — Orion finds products on Shopify stores and hands you a checkout link. It does not book travel, pay, or phone businesses | Yes — books travel, fills in forms, negotiates, and buys with a single-use card number through Link by Stripe |
| Where you reach it | Web app with push notifications, two-way SMS on US numbers, and the brief by email. No WhatsApp, voice or native app yet | iPhone and Android apps, muse.ai and WhatsApp; US first |
| Setup | Sign in with Google and click through the connections you want | Not published — check their site |
When Meta Muse is the better choice
If you want an agent that books travel, fills in forms and buys things with a single-use card, Muse does that and Orion does not. It also has iPhone and Android apps, works inside WhatsApp, and Meta says it is free for most of what people need. If errands are the job, Muse is the better choice today.
What Orion is for
One person's whole life in one place: email, calendar, finances, health, side projects and notes, read overnight and synthesized into a single morning brief. You can text it a question and it answers from your actual data — and it acts, drafting the reply, booking the event, closing the task. It is not a team workspace, and it is not trying to become one.
The details are on the homepage, and how it handles your data is on the security page. Orion is in private beta; join the waitlist and you are let in roughly in order.