Kimi K3 vs Muse Glimmer-30B: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Kimi K3 is developed by Moonshot AI, while Muse Glimmer-30B comes from Meta. Kimi K3 was released in July 2026, and Muse Glimmer-30B followed a month later in August 2026. Kimi K3 is the larger model at roughly 2.8 trillion parameters, against 30 billion for Muse Glimmer-30B.
The two models share 2 published benchmarks. Kimi K3 leads on 2 of them. The widest gaps are on DeepSearchQA, where Kimi K3 scores 95.0% against 74.6%; GPQA, where Kimi K3 scores 94.0% against 83.5%. Averaged across everything we track, Kimi K3 sits at 95.7% and Muse Glimmer-30B at 65.1%.
Kimi K3 is available through an API at $3 per million input tokens with a 1M-token context window. We do not track a hosted API for Muse Glimmer-30B, so pricing and context cannot be compared directly.
| Characteristic | Kimi K3 | Muse Glimmer-30B |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Moonshot AI | Meta |
| Release Date | July 16, 2026 | August 10, 2026 |
| Parameters | 2.8T | 30B |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | 1.0M | — |
| Context (output) | 1.0M | — |
| Input Price / 1M | $3.00 | — |
| Output Price / 1M | $15.00 | — |
| Average Score | 95.7% | 65.1% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | 74.6% |
| GPQA | 94.0% | 83.5% |
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Verdict
Muse Glimmer-30B leads in 1 out of 2 comparison categories.
Both models show comparable average scores: Kimi K3 — 1.0, Muse Glimmer-30B — 0.7.
Muse Glimmer-30B is newer: released 8/10/2026 vs 7/16/2026.
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