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 | Muse Spark 1.2 ContributorMetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Efficient |
| Added | Aug 11, 2026 | Aug 5, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 1MBest |
| Max output | — | 65.54K |
| Average output | 682 tokens | 2.8K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.35 | $0.10Best |
| Output | $1.50 | $0.20Best |
| Cache read | $0.04 | $0.002Best |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 69.2 tok/s | 288.8 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 0.9 sBest | 2.1 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.8% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 17.5 | 39.6Best |
| Coding Index | 49.0 | 72.2Best |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| PDF input | No | Yes |
| Audio input | No | Yes |
| Video input | No | Yes |
| Parallel tools | No | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor
Intelligence Index
- Muse Glimmer 30B17.5
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor39.6
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
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 72.2Top
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 6.8%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 40.6%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.8%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 15.7%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 477 Elo
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 1,327 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 783 Elo
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 1,475 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 10.0%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 17.4%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 79.0%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 7.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 22.0%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 45.5%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.5%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 90.4%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.5%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 7.1%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 44.9%
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 57.4%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Muse Spark 1.2 Contributor: 79.0%
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
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
- 49.8%
- About $0.20 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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