Meta · Open weights
Muse Glimmer 30B
Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B is a dense, open-weight multimodal model distilled from Muse Spark for long-horizon agents and coding workflows. It supports multi-step reasoning, reliable tool use, failure recovery, image understanding, and more than 100 languages.
- Reasoning
- Tools
- Vision
- Structured output
- Input
- Text, Images
- Output
- Text
- Reasoning effort
- minimal · low · medium · high · xhigh
- Discovery tier
- Open weights
Pricing
USD per 1M tokens- Input
- $0.35
- Output
- $1.50
- Cache read
- $0.04
Reference prices as published by the model provider. API example
Specifications
- Context window
- 131.1K
- Max output
- —
- Average output (7 days)
- 682 tokens
- Longer than 61% of 473 models
Side by side
Muse Glimmer 30B compared
Specifications, prices, speed and benchmark scores next to each other. Benchmarks below show every compared model too.
| Muse Glimmer 30BMetaThis model | Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)GoogleRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Aug 11, 2026 | Dec 17, 2025 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 1.05MBest |
| Max output | — | 65.54K |
| Average output | 682 tokens | 592 tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.35Best | $0.50 |
| Output | $1.50Best | $3.00 |
| Cache read | $0.04Best | $0.05 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 69.2 tok/s | 211.2 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 0.9 sBest | 1.3 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.8% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 17.5 | 17.9Best |
| Coding Index | 49.0 | — |
| Math Index | — | 55.7 |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh | minimal, low, medium, high |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)
Intelligence Index
- Muse Glimmer 30B17.5
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)17.9
Muse Glimmer 30B tested at high reasoning effort
Muse Glimmer 30B: Better than 46% of 326 scored models
Indexes
Coding Index
Composite of the coding evaluations
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 49.0
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
Math Index
Composite of the math evaluations
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.7
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 6.8%
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.8%
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 477 Elo
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 783 Elo
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 10.0%
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.3%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 22.0%Top
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 15.0%
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.5%Top
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 81.2%
MMLU-Pro
Multi-subject knowledge and reasoning
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 88.2%
IFBench
Following precise output instructions
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.1%
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.5%
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 44.9%
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): —
LiveCodeBench
Recent competitive programming problems
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 79.7%
Math
AIME 2025
Competition mathematics, 2025 problems
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.7%
Legacy evaluations
Terminal-Bench Hard
Earlier terminal task suite
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 31.8%
τ²-Bench Telecom
Tool use in a customer-support simulation
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 43.3%
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview): 55.3%
Scores from Artificial Analysis, updated Oct 26, 2026. Muse Glimmer 30B was tested at high reasoning effort; compare scores measured at the same effort.Artificial Analysis
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) |
|---|---|---|
| German | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1499.1 |
| Japanese | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1488.7 |
| Polish | Not in top 20 | #10 · 1496.6 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #17 · 1478.0 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1289.1 |
| Vision Style Control · Captioning | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1233.8 |
| Vision Style Control · Creative Writing Vision | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1296.1 |
| Vision Style Control · Entity Recognition | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1290.0 |
| Vision Style Control · Humor | Not in top 20 | #14 · 1268.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Gemini 3 Flash (Preview)
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Gemini 3 Flash (Preview) |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1–3) | Not in top 20 | #11 · 51.2% |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not in top 20 | #7 · 75.4% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
Live routing data
Performance and reliability
Recent averages across requests routed for this model. Your own speed depends on prompt length, reasoning effort and load.
- Throughput
- 69.2 tok/s
- Faster than 47% of 256 models
- Time to first token
- 0.9 s
- Quicker than 96% of 256 models
- Prompt cache hits
- 55.1%
- About $0.18 per 1M input tokens with caching
- Request success (24h)
- 100.0%
- Reliable
Cache hits are the share of input tokens recently served from a prompt cache across all requests. They are not a forecast of your own hit rate.
- Healthy (98% or more)
- Degraded (90–98%)
- Down (under 90%)
- No requests
Developers
Use it through the API
Noumen’s API is OpenAI-compatible: any Chat Completions client works with a base URL and a key.
curl https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1/chat/completions \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $NOUMEN_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"model": "meta/muse-glimmer-30b",
"reasoning_effort": "medium",
"messages": [{ "role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace." }]
}'import os
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://www.noumen.xyz/api/v1", api_key=os.environ["NOUMEN_API_KEY"])
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="meta/muse-glimmer-30b",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Explain this stack trace."}],
)
print(reply.choices[0].message.content)Meta
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