# Muse Glimmer 30B vs Sakana Fugu-Ultra

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

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

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Sakana Fugu-Ultra 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

- Sakana Fugu-Ultra leads overall 74 to 41.73.
- The clearest category separation is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 46.3 for Muse Glimmer 30B and 72.6 for Sakana Fugu-Ultra.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Terminal-Bench 2.1 in Coding, with scores of 51.7% and 82.1%.
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Meta | Sakana AI |
| Type | Open Weight | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 131K | 1M |
| Overall Score | 41.73 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 14 | 11 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.00 / $0.00 | Pricing unavailable / Pricing unavailable |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 27.6 (Estimated · #72/105)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MCP Atlas | 75.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 74.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| skillsBench | 44.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | 65.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 36.3 (Estimated · #69/135)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Pro | 51.2% | 73.7% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| SWE-bench Verified | 76% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 51.7% | 82.1% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| SciCode | 43.6% | 58.7% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| LiveCodeBench v6 | Coming soon | 93.2% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 79.3 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: 79 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MRCRv2 | Coming soon | 93.6% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 46.3 (#42/50)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: 72.6 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | 78.8% | 86.6% | Sakana Fugu-Ultra |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 75.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OmniDocBench 1.5 | 75.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | 74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 43.9 (Estimated · #75/158)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 50% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 77.7 (#55/124)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFBench | 77% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Muse Glimmer 30B public-lane score: 75.4 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Sakana Fugu-Ultra public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Muse Glimmer 30B | Sakana Fugu-Ultra | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME26 | 94.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Muse Glimmer 30B or Sakana Fugu-Ultra?

Sakana Fugu-Ultra is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Muse Glimmer 30B and Sakana Fugu-Ultra?

The widest category gap is in multimodal & grounded, where the averages are 46.3 for Muse Glimmer 30B and 72.6 for Sakana Fugu-Ultra.

### 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 Sakana Fugu-Ultra cover on BenchLM?

Sakana Fugu-Ultra currently has 11 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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