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 OpenMetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 11, 2026 | Oct 15, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 1.05MBest |
| Average output | 682 tokens | 1.3K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.35Best | $1.25 |
| Output | $1.50Best | $4.25 |
| Cache read | $0.04Best | $0.15 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 69.2 tok/s | — |
| Time to first token | 0.9 s | — |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0% | — |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 17.5 | 38.9Best |
| Coding Index | 49.0 | — |
| Capabilities | ||
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Tools | Yes | Yes |
| Vision | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh | 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 Open
Intelligence Index
- Muse Glimmer 30B17.5
- Muse Spark Open38.9
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
- Muse Spark Open: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 6.8%
- Muse Spark Open: 49.7%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.8%
- Muse Spark Open: 20.9%Top
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 477 Elo
- Muse Spark Open: 1,279 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 783 Elo
- Muse Spark Open: 1,401 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 10.0%
- Muse Spark Open: 18.6%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Muse Spark Open: 78.3%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Muse Spark Open: 7.8%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 22.0%
- Muse Spark Open: 43.9%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.5%
- Muse Spark Open: 89.0%Top
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.5%
- Muse Spark Open: 8.1%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 44.9%
- Muse Spark Open: 58.4%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Muse Spark Open: 78.3%
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
- Muse Spark Open
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark Open |
|---|---|---|
| Website | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1306 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Design Arena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Design Arena
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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