# MAI-Thinking-1 vs Muse Glimmer 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for MAI-Thinking-1 and Muse Glimmer 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mai-thinking-1-vs-muse-glimmer-30b
- Last updated: September 24, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick MAI-Thinking-1 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

- MAI-Thinking-1 leads overall 51 to 41.73.
- The clearest category separation is in instruction following, where the averages are 95.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 77.7 for Muse Glimmer 30B.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is IFBench in Instruction Following, with scores of 85% and 77%.
- MAI-Thinking-1 also has the larger context window at 256K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Microsoft | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 256K | 131K |
| Overall Score | null | 41.73 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 27.6 (Estimated · #72/105)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 74.6% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 36.3 (Estimated · #69/135)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| LiveCodeBench v6 | 87.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.5% | 76% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| SWE-bench Pro | 52.8% | 51.2% | MAI-Thinking-1 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 46.0% | 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
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 79.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Graphwalks BFS 128K | 90% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 46.3 (#42/50)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| 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: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #75/158)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | 85% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SimpleQA | 31% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: MAI-Thinking-1
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 95.4 (#1/124)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 77.7 (#55/124)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 85% | 77% | MAI-Thinking-1 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- MAI-Thinking-1 public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 75.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | MAI-Thinking-1 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2025 | 97% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AIME26 | 94.5% | 94.7% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| HMMT Feb 2026 | 84.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, MAI-Thinking-1 or Muse Glimmer 30B?

MAI-Thinking-1 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between MAI-Thinking-1 and Muse Glimmer 30B?

The widest category gap is in instruction following, where the averages are 95.4 for MAI-Thinking-1 and 77.7 for Muse Glimmer 30B.

### How many benchmarks does MAI-Thinking-1 cover on BenchLM?

MAI-Thinking-1 currently has 14 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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