# Muse Glimmer 30B vs Muse Spark

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

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 6
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Pick Muse Spark 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

- Muse Spark leads overall 60.81 to 41.73.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 46.3 for Muse Glimmer 30B and 77.5 for Muse Spark.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is ScreenSpot Pro in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 75.4% and 84.1%.
- Muse Spark also has the larger context window at 262K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meta | Meta |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 262K |
| Overall Score | 41.73 | 60.81 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 27 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Directional only
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 27.6 (Estimated · #72/105)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53 (Supported · #33/105)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MCP Atlas | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 74.6% | 74.8% | Muse Spark |
| skillsBench | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 65.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 91.5% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 43.5% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 63.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Directional only
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 36.3 (Estimated · #69/135)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53.4 (Supported · #32/135)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.2% | 52.4% | Muse Spark |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76% | 77.4% | Muse Spark |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 51.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SciCode | 43.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 80.0% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 19.67% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 74.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 79.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 53.3 (Unranked · 3 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Muse Spark
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 46.3 (#42/50)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 77.5 (#14/50)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 78.8% | 86.4% | Muse Spark |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 75.4% | 84.1% | Muse Spark |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 74% | 80.4% | Muse Spark |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 71.3% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 33.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Directional only
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #75/158)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 60.8 (Supported · #33/158)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 50.4% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 42.8% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 52.6% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 89.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Directional only
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 77.7 (#55/124)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 91.9 (#8/124)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 75.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Muse Spark public-lane score: 55.1 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Muse Spark | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 94.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 39.000% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 14.600% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Muse Glimmer 30B or Muse Spark?

Muse Spark is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Muse Glimmer 30B and Muse Spark?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 46.3 for Muse Glimmer 30B and 77.5 for Muse Spark.

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

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

### How many benchmarks does Muse Spark cover on BenchLM?

Muse Spark currently has 27 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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- [Muse Spark vs Muse Spark 1.1](/compare/muse-spark-vs-muse-spark-1-1)
- [Muse Glimmer 30B vs Muse Spark 1.2](/compare/muse-glimmer-30b-vs-muse-spark-1-2)
- [Muse Spark vs Muse Spark 1.2](/compare/muse-spark-vs-muse-spark-1-2)

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