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Is Meta Muse (Image + Video) Down?

Q: What should I use if Meta Muse (Image + Video) is down?

The top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives to Meta Muse (Image + Video) are Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1, formerly Nano Banana 2), Leonardo AI, Stable Diffusion. Full list and tier rankings are on this page.

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Last editorial review: 2026-07-18

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Known issues we've tracked

FEATURE PULLED AFTER BACKLASH (~2026-07-10): Meta discontinued the Instagram feature that let users **generate AI images using photos from other people's public Instagram accounts**, days after it launched with the Muse rollout. The default was automatic opt-in, which drew immediate criticism from entertainment-industry figures and SAG-AFTRA ('Anything other than a clear and conspicuous opt-in for these types of uses of Instagram users' images is unacceptable'). Meta's statement: 'We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer available.' IMPORTANT SCOPE: this kills only the public-photos remix feature -- **the Muse Image model itself remains live** in the Meta AI app, Instagram Stories, and WhatsApp. Worth knowing as a consent/provenance signal when evaluating Meta's media tools

2026-07-10•Reuters (2026-07-10), Meta statement, SAG-AFTRA statement, Benzinga, Medianama

LAUNCH (2026-07-07): Meta Superintelligence Labs (led by Alexandr Wang) launched its first media-generation models. **Muse Image is generally available** across the Meta AI app, meta.ai, Instagram Stories (US), and WhatsApp (limited countries), coming soon to Facebook -- capabilities include instruction-faithful editing, multi-reference composition, tool use (coding + web search), self-refinement, and test-time compute scaling. It ranks #2 on Arena for text-to-image, single-image editing, and multi-image editing (as of 2026-07-05). **Muse Video is in preview** ('exceptional visual fidelity with native audio support,' Arena #3 for text-to-video), coming soon to creators and Meta AI. Images carry a hidden Content Seal provenance watermark. No pricing, benchmarks beyond Arena placement, or public API were disclosed at launch

2026-07-07•Meta AI blog (ai.meta.com/blog/introducing-muse-image-muse-video-msl/), Meta newsroom (about.fb.com), Reuters, CNBC

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What to use if Meta Muse (Image + Video) is down

Top AIToolTier-ranked alternatives in the same category, ordered by our overall score.

Nano Banana 2.1 (Gemini Nano Banana 2.1, formerly Nano Banana 2)

8.9

**Nano Banana 2.1 went GA on the Gemini API on 2026-10-06 as the update to Nano Banana 2, with better visual quality, prompt adherence, multi-turn character consistency and text rendering, new 1:4 to 8:1 panoramic ratios, and a lower price -- $0.0336 per 1K image versus $0.067 -- while Google is retiring gemini-3.1-flash-image in its favour (no end date yet).** Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Image model -- the best-in-class text-in-image renderer, now the default across the Gemini app

Leonardo AI

8.3

Versatile AI image generator with fine-tuned models and a generous free tier

Stable Diffusion

8.0

Open-source AI image generation with unlimited free local use and full customization

Midjourney

7.8

**Midjourney's alpha site gained shared folders and a Thinking mode in its 10/7 changelog: collaborators can now generate into a shared folder, and 'Rerun (Thinking)' has V8.2 inspect its own image for missed prompt details -- wrong objects, layout, anatomy, text -- and generate again.** Industry-leading AI image generation with stunning artistic quality. **The V8.2 Edit Model opened to everyone on 2026-08-27** -- instruction-based edits, up to four image references (replacing omni-reference), inpainting and outpainting -- and the **2026-09-24 update** makes targeted edits change only the pixels you select, adds live style previews, and fixes --tile seams on V8.1/8.2. V8.2 itself launched 2026-07-24 as the default model. No price change

Ideogram

7.8

AI image generator that nails text rendering -- Ideogram 4.0 (June 3 2026) goes OPEN-WEIGHT with commercial license: 9.3B DiT, 0.97 X-Omni OCR, layout control, 2K photoreal. Plus Custom Models for brand-trained generation on Pro+ plans

About Meta Muse (Image + Video)

Tier A (8.4/10). Meta Superintelligence Labs' first media-generation models (launched 2026-07-07) -- Muse Image is GA across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp (Arena #2 for text-to-image); Muse Video is in preview (Arena #3 for text-to-video). Instruction-faithful editing, multi-reference composition, tool use, and Content Seal provenance watermarking

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