Analysis Summary
Meta's Muse Glimmer 30B is a multimodal model supporting text and image input, vision, tool use, and function calling. Its 131K context window is sufficient for many briefs, reports, and content repositories, while pricing of $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens supports economical deployment.
The feature set fits visual content review, structured marketing production, SEO workflows, document extraction, and tool-connected internal operations. It may be useful where image understanding is part of the brief, but the supplied data contains no measured reasoning, coding, agentic, or instruction-following results. That makes its performance on complex client work uncertain.
Pilot it for multimodal content and automation with human review. Its pricing supports volume testing, while benchmarked models should handle high-stakes strategy and difficult coding tasks.
Assessed August 12, 2026
Editorial notes
Muse Glimmer 30B supports image input, vision, tool use, function calling, and a 131K context window at low pricing. Its suitability for complex production work remains unverified because no benchmarks are supplied.
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DFO Verdict
Muse Glimmer 30B supports image input, vision, tool use, function calling, and a 131K context window at low pricing. Its suitability for complex production work remains unverified because no benchmarks are supplied.
How Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B compares
Its 131K-token context window is larger than 50% of the models we list. At $0.35 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 44% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on content. The pulled-in technical corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.35 | $0.000350 |
| Output | $1.50 | $0.001500 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Muse Glimmer 30B is a dense, open-weight multimodal model from Meta Superintelligence Labs, distilled from Muse Spark and optimized for autonomous agents on consumer hardware. It is suited for long-horizon..
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Frequently asked questions about Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B
How much does Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B cost?
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B costs $0.35 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B?
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B has a context window of 131,072 tokens (131K).
What can Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B do?
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B?
Meta: Muse Glimmer 30B is developed by Meta and was released on August 9, 2026.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: August 13, 2026 8:38 pm