Muse Invite Codes: How the Referral Program Gives Away 1 Billion Tokens
Muse's invite codes give 1 billion tokens to both the new user and the referrer, if the code is redeemed in Settings within 48 hours of joining.
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Muse Invite Codes: How the Referral Program Gives Away 1 Billion Tokens
New users who redeem an invite code in Settings within 48 hours of joining get 1 billion Muse tokens, and so does the person who shared the code. Here’s how it works, what the tokens buy, and the limits to know about.
Meta’s AI chief Alexandr Wang listed “muse invite codes” among the features the Muse team has shipped in an October 4 post on X, a sign the referral program is now an official growth lever. The mechanics are straightforward: an existing Muse user shares a personal invite code, a new user redeems it in Settings within 48 hours of joining at muse.ai/join, and both sides receive 1 billion Muse tokens.
Meta has not published standalone documentation for the program, as far as I can tell. The details below are documented consistently across multiple independent tutorials and community guides that track the program, including step-by-step walkthroughs with in-app screenshots. Treat them as community-documented rather than official Meta statements. Program terms can change.
How to Redeem a Code
The grant is not automatic, and the clock matters. According to the walkthroughs, the redemption field only works within 48 hours of account creation. Miss the window and there is no retroactive credit.
On the web app, the path is Settings → General → Usage → Redeem invite code. On mobile, it sits under Settings as a redeem option (labeled “Redeem token” or “Redeem referral code” depending on the version). Enter the code exactly as shared (all caps, no spaces) and confirm once. The guides warn that duplicate submissions can trigger a rejection.
After redeeming, check the token balance in the usage section. The 1 billion tokens should appear as a separate line item from the weekly allowance, marked as non-expiring. One guide describes this wording as shown in the in-app terms during redemption. If the balance doesn’t update immediately, the guides suggest closing and reopening the app before retrying.
Once inside, users get their own personal code, typically via a gift icon in the chat or a referral section in Settings, and can start sharing it. Each person who joins with that code and redeems it within their own 48-hour window adds another 1 billion tokens to the sharer’s balance.
What 1 Billion Tokens Actually Means
Tokens are Muse’s unit of compute: every action the agent takes (browsing pages, running background tasks, drafting documents) draws from the balance. They function as usage credits and cannot be cashed out.
The free tier includes a weekly allowance of 100 million tokens, a figure Mark Zuckerberg gave when introducing the app on Threads (Gizmodo corroborated the figure), and which Meta’s subscription help page describes as a free tier with a resetting usage limit. Against that baseline, 1 billion tokens equals roughly ten weeks of free quota, and the grant stacks on top of the weekly allowance rather than replacing it. It works as a reserve: the weekly allowance is the recurring budget, the referral tokens the backup for when the week runs dry.
The tokens do not expire, according to every guide tracking the program, with one citing the in-app redemption terms directly.
The Limits
The program has caps on both ends. Multiple guides report that each user can earn from up to 20 successful referrals, for a maximum of 20 billion tokens from referrals alone. One guide attributes the 20-invite figure to Meta’s own referral messaging. Individual codes also carry redemption caps; reported figures vary (around 20 to 30 uses per code), so a code shared widely can run dry.
Availability is regional. Muse rolled out in the United States first, with Canada appearing in current referral language, and several guides note that an invite code does not override regional restrictions or a waitlist. If you’re outside the supported regions, the code won’t grant entry.
Why Meta Is Doing It
The structure is a classic growth loop with a compute-era twist. Each redeemed code produces an activated new user at zero marginal acquisition cost to Meta, and the referrer, already a user, gets a reason to recruit. Because Muse meters usage in tokens, the 1 billion grant also lowers the effective cost of trying the product seriously: a new user can run the agent hard for weeks without hitting the free tier’s ceiling or reaching for a paid plan. (For what those tiers actually buy, see our pricing comparison.) Tokens are cheap for Meta to grant and expensive-feeling to receive: the asymmetry that makes referral programs work.
The Takeaway
If you’re joining Muse, redeem an invite code within 48 hours of creating your account, before you start exploring. After that the option is gone, and with it the easiest billion tokens you’ll ever earn.
