# Claude Opus 5 vs Muse Glimmer 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 5 and Muse Glimmer 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-5-vs-muse-glimmer-30b
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Muse Glimmer 30B only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 5 leads overall 79.81 to 41.73.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 77.4 for Claude Opus 5 and 27.6 for Muse Glimmer 30B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is SWE-bench Pro in Coding, with scores of 79.2% and 51.2%.
- Muse Glimmer 30B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Muse Glimmer 30B also has the larger context window at 131K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | null | 131K |
| Overall Score | 79.81 | 41.73 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 74 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 77.4 (Supported · #3/105)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 27.6 (Estimated · #72/105)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | 74.6% | Claude Opus 5 |
| DRACO | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp (10-agent, prerelease) | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 85.8% | 75.5% | Claude Opus 5 |
| MCP-Atlas claim coverage | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Anthropic harness) | 23.58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Anthropic harness) | 93.74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 11.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 73.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 23.5 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 26.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 84.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 36% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 72.8 (Supported · #5/135)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 36.3 (Estimated · #69/135)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Bug Hunt Bench | 27 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 96% | 76% | Claude Opus 5 |
| SWE-bench Pro | 79.2% | 51.2% | Claude Opus 5 |
| SWE Multilingual | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 68.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 63.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 52.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (episode 1) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 96.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 97.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 51.7% | Coming soon |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 77.3 (#6/19)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 79.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 88.8 (#2/50)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 46.3 (#42/50)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | 29.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.366 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.821 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (tools) | 85.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 75.4% | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | Coming soon | 75.8% | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 74% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 81.4 (Supported · #5/158)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #75/158)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 56.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (raw) | 67.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 57.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 59.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 90.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProteinGym Hard | 47.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 42.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Organic chemistry V2 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 61.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 89.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 77.7 (#55/124)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 75.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMO 2026 | 42/42 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (no tools) | 60.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (tools) | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (no tools) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (tools) | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 5 or Muse Glimmer 30B?

Claude Opus 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 5 and Muse Glimmer 30B?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 77.4 for Claude Opus 5 and 27.6 for Muse Glimmer 30B.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 5 currently has 74 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Muse Glimmer 30B cover on BenchLM?

Muse Glimmer 30B currently has 14 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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