Muse Glimmer-30B vs Qwen3.8 Max: Specs & Benchmark Comparison
Muse Glimmer-30B is developed by Meta, while Qwen3.8 Max comes from Alibaba. Both were released in August 2026. Qwen3.8 Max is the larger model at roughly 2.4 trillion parameters, against 30 billion for Muse Glimmer-30B.
The two models share 9 published benchmarks. Qwen3.8 Max leads on 9 of them. The widest gaps are on Terminal-Bench 2.1, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 86.6% against 51.7%; SkillsBench, where Qwen3.8 Max scores 70.2% against 44.3%. Averaged across everything we track, Muse Glimmer-30B sits at 65.1% and Qwen3.8 Max at 71.0%.
Qwen3.8 Max is available through an API at $2.50 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 | Muse Glimmer-30B | Qwen3.8 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Company | Meta | Alibaba |
| Release Date | August 10, 2026 | August 2, 2026 |
| Parameters | 30B | 2.4T |
| Multimodal | Yes | Yes |
| Context (input) | — | 1.0M |
| Context (output) | — | 131K |
| Input Price / 1M | — | $2.50 |
| Output Price / 1M | — | $6.25 |
| Average Score | 65.1% | 71.0% |
| Benchmarks | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 | 51.7% | 86.6% |
| SkillsBench | 44.3% | 70.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 22.0% | 43.6% |
| OSWorld-Verified | 65.9% | 86.1% |
| SWE-Bench Pro | 51.2% | 67.7% |
| GPQA | 83.5% | 92.6% |
| ScreenSpot Pro | 75.4% | 84.5% |
| MMMU-Pro | 74.0% | 82.3% |
| IFBench | 77.0% | 82.8% |
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Verdict
Both models show equal results — the choice depends on your specific use case.
Both models show comparable average scores: Muse Glimmer-30B — 0.7, Qwen3.8 Max — 0.7.
Both models were released around the same time: 8/10/2026 and 8/2/2026.
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