# Kimi K2.5 vs Muse Glimmer 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Kimi K2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/kimi-k2-5-vs-muse-glimmer-30b
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Kimi K2.5 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

- Kimi K2.5 leads overall 52.96 to 41.73.
- The clearest category separation is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.1 for Kimi K2.5 and 79.3 for Muse Glimmer 30B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is MCP Atlas in Agentic, with scores of 29.5% and 75.5%.
- Muse Glimmer 30B is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Kimi K2.5 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 131K |
| Overall Score | 52.96 | 41.73 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 45 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.60 / $3.00 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 36.1 (Estimated · #52/105)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 27.6 (Estimated · #72/105)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 50.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | 52.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| QwenClawBench | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| τ³-bench results | 65.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 77.1% | 74.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| DeepPlanning | 14.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon | 27.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 29.5% | 75.5% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| MCP-Tasks | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| WideResearch | 72.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | 45.88% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | 14.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| JobBench | 8.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.9 (Estimated · #61/135)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 36.3 (Estimated · #69/135)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 76.8% | 76% | Kimi K2.5 |
| SWE-bench Verified* | 70.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 85.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 50.7% | 51.2% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| SWE Multilingual | 73% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | 58.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | 77.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 48.7% | 43.6% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 51.7% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 79.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LongBench v2 | 61% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 65.8 (#25/50)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 46.3 (#42/50)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU-Pro | 78.5% | 74% | Kimi K2.5 |
| Video-MME | 87.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMVU | 80.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VideoMMMU | 86.6% | 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 |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #65/158)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #75/158)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 87.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Arcee) | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE | 30.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 38.2 (#8/12)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU-ProX | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| NOVA-63 | 56.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 84.4 (#41/124)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 77.7 (#55/124)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 93.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IFBench | Coming soon | 77% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Kimi K2.5 public-lane score: 62.1 (#4/7)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 75.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Kimi K2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 96.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 95.8% | 94.7% | Kimi K2.5 |
| AIME25 (Arcee) | 96.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2025 | 95.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Nov 2025 | 91.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 87.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMAnswerBench | 81.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 27.900% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 4.200% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Kimi K2.5 or Muse Glimmer 30B?

Kimi K2.5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Kimi K2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B?

The widest category gap is in reasoning, where the averages are 55.1 for Kimi K2.5 and 79.3 for Muse Glimmer 30B.

### How many benchmarks does Kimi K2.5 cover on BenchLM?

Kimi K2.5 currently has 45 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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