# Mercury 3 vs Muse Glimmer 30B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Mercury 3 and Muse Glimmer 30B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/mercury-3-vs-muse-glimmer-30b
- Last updated: October 19, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 2
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Mercury 3 and Muse Glimmer 30B share only 2 sourced benchmark rows.

## Summary

- Only 2 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 3 has the larger published context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Inception | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 131K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 41.23 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 8 | 14 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.10 / $0.35 | $0.00 / $0.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 25.4 (Estimated · #105/130)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| τ³-bench results | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp+ | 55.18% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 71.3% | 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 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 30.5 (Estimated · #96/151)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| DeepSWE | 46.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| 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 |
| SciCode | Coming soon | 43.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 82.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 65.1 (#42/55)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | 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: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.8 (Estimated · #106/186)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 81.1 (#57/148)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 76.8% | 77% | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| MultiChallenge (provider reports) | 60.35% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Mercury 3 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 84.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Mercury 3 | Muse Glimmer 30B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | Coming soon | 94.7% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Mercury 3 and Muse Glimmer 30B?

Not yet. The models share only 2 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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