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 WonderMetaRemove | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Discovery tier | Open weights | Frontier |
| Added | Aug 11, 2026 | Oct 12, 2026 |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 131.07K | 1.05MBest |
| Average output | 682 tokens | 1.2K tokens |
| Pricing, USD per 1M tokens | ||
| Input | $0.35Best | $4.00 |
| Output | $1.50Best | $20.00 |
| Cache read | $0.04Best | $0.20 |
| Performance | ||
| Throughput | 69.2 tok/s | 156.0 tok/sBest |
| Time to first token | 0.9 sBest | 3.4 s |
| Request success (24h) | 100.0%Best | 99.5% |
| Benchmark indexes | ||
| Intelligence Index | 17.5 | 52.4Best |
| Coding Index | 49.0 | — |
| 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 |
| Reasoning effort | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh | minimal, low, medium, high, xhigh, max |
Public evaluations
Benchmarks
Independent evaluation results, with how each score ranks among the models in the Noumen catalog.
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Wonder
Intelligence Index
- Muse Glimmer 30B17.5
- Muse Wonder52.4
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 Wonder: —
Agentic work
AutomationBench-AA
Workflow automation, penalized for guardrail violations
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 6.8%
- Muse Wonder: 68.1%Top
AutomationBench-AA tasks completed
Workflows finished end to end without a guardrail violation
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.8%
- Muse Wonder: 39.1%Top
Harvey LAB-AAv1.1
Legal tasks passed in full, with no material hallucination
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Muse Wonder: 10.0%
AA-Briefcasev1.1
Agentic knowledge work, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 477 Elo
- Muse Wonder: 1,659 EloTop
GDPval-AAv2.1
Economically valuable occupational tasks, rated head to head
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 783 Elo
- Muse Wonder: 1,770 EloTop
Document reasoning
GDP.pdf
Professional reasoning over PDF documents, all-pass rate
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 10.0%
- Muse Wonder: 30.6%Top
AA-LCRv1.1
Reasoning across long documents
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Muse Wonder: 80.7%
MLCR-AA
Long-context reasoning over medical records
- Muse Glimmer 30B: —
- Muse Wonder: 22.2%
Reasoning and knowledge
Humanity’s Last Exam
Expert-level questions across academic fields
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 22.0%
- Muse Wonder: 50.1%Top
GPQA Diamond
Graduate-level science questions
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.5%
- Muse Wonder: —
Coding
Terminal-Benchv4.0
Practical software engineering in a terminal
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 0.5%
- Muse Wonder: 52.0%Top
SciCode
Scientific computing in Python
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 44.9%
- Muse Wonder: 60.3%Top
Legacy evaluations
AA-LCR (unversioned)
Long-context reasoning, earlier grading
- Muse Glimmer 30B: 83.3%Top
- Muse Wonder: 80.7%
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 Wonder
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Combined | Not in top 20 | #3 · 33.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Combined leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Wonder
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Roleplay | Not in top 20 | #5 · 51.4% |
| Creative writing | Not in top 20 | #8 · 40.0% |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #12 · 21.2% |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Use cases leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Wonder
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Overall | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1508.7 |
| Coding | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1544.7 |
| Longer Query | Not in top 20 | #11 · 1501.6 |
| Creative Writing | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1492.0 |
| Instruction Following | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1497.5 |
| Hard Prompts | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1521.9 |
| Chinese | Not in top 20 | #8 · 1543.7 |
| English | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1515.7 |
| Exclude Ties | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1533.0 |
| Expert | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1525.8 |
| French | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1530.4 |
| Hard Prompts English | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1523.3 |
| Industry Business And Management And Financial Operations | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1497.8 |
| Industry Entertainment And Sports And Media | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1484.9 |
| Industry Legal And Government | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1510.6 |
| Industry Life And Physical And Social Science | Not in top 20 | #7 · 1521.3 |
| Industry Mathematical | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1519.5 |
| Industry Medicine And Healthcare | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1524.2 |
| Industry Software And It Services | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1533.5 |
| Industry Writing And Literature And Language | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1500.5 |
| Multi Turn | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1519.3 |
| Non English | Not in top 20 | #2 · 1498.3 |
| Russian | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1532.5 |
| Spanish | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1483.6 |
| WebDev Overall | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1651.0 |
| WebDev · Webdev | Not in top 20 | #12 · 1651.0 |
| WebDev · Webdev-html | Not in top 20 | #6 · 1684.2 |
| WebDev · Webdev-react | Not in top 20 | #15 · 1645.3 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on LMArena leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.LMArena
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Wonder
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not in top 20 | #12 · 161.8 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on Epoch AI leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.Epoch AI
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Wonder
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench 4 | Not in top 20 | #3 · 1324 |
| Creative Writing v3 | Not in top 20 | #9 · 2007 |
Ranks among Noumen catalog models on EQ-Bench leaderboards. Only top-20 placements are listed.EQ-Bench
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- Muse Wonder
| Leaderboard | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Wonder |
|---|---|---|
| Game Development | Not in top 20 | #5 · 1405 |
| Website | Not in top 20 | #1 · 1368 |
| UI Component | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1374 |
| Data Visualization | Not in top 20 | #13 · 1307 |
| 3D | Not in top 20 | #4 · 1446 |
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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