# Mercury 2.5 vs Muse Glimmer 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-2-5-vs-muse-glimmer-30b
- Last updated: September 8, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 3
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B share only 3 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 3 shared sourced benchmark rows are available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Muse Glimmer 30B has the lower published output-token price.
- Mercury 2.5 has the larger published context window at 260K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 260K | 131K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 45.32 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 5 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.04 / $0.15 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 44.5 (Estimated · #91/152)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.5 (Estimated · #98/152)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 96.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 34.0% | 74.6% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 75.5% | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | Coming soon | 44.3% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 65.9% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 47.8 (Estimated · #73/151)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 48.7 (Estimated · #69/151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SciCode | 38% | 43.6% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 51.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 76% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 51.7% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 46.4 (#40/48)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | 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 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 67.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 78.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 48.3 (Estimated · #94/182)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 47.5 (Estimated · #98/182)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: 80.1 (#53/121)
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 80.1 (#52/121)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | 77% | Tie |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 2.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 76.3 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Mercury 2.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 2.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B?

Not yet. The models share only 3 sourced benchmark rows, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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