Model comparison
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Muse Glimmer 30B
Claude Opus 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#3); Muse Glimmer 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Opus 5.5 scores higher in 1 category and Muse Glimmer 30B in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude Opus 5.5 leads 78.2 to 69.9.
- Muse Glimmer 30B is cheaper at $0.30 / $1.20 per million input/output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.
- Claude Opus 5.5 accepts more context: 1M tokens versus 131K.
- Muse Glimmer 30B has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 68.6 | 55.5 |
| Released | 2026-09-22 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 128K | 16K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $4 | $0.30 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $20 | $1.20 |
| Results tracked | 44 | 1 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 71.9 (#3), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 54.6% | — |
| CursorBench | 57.8% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1813 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 62.3% | — |
| SciCode | 66.9% | — |
| LMArena Coding | 1547 | — |
| MirrorCode | 77.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 2,147 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 45.3 (#15), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 73.5% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 30.6% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 9,235 | — |
Reasoning Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 80.2 (#3), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 93.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 88.5% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 98.5% | — |
| CritPt | 31.7% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 71.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1535 | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 71% | — |
| DTBench | 98.9% | — |
| LMCA | 68.2% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 167.33 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 91.8 (#3), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 95% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| LMArena Math | 1506 | — |
| FrontierMath Erdős | 2.9% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 66.4 (#10), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.6% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 72.2% | — |
| LMArena Expert | 1547 | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 57.8 (#1), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1321 | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 51.2% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 83.3% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 59.1 (#2), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1507 | — |
| LMArena Chinese | 1588 | — |
| LMArena French | 1514 | — |
| LMArena Russian | 1520 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1507 | — |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 80.0 (#3), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1537 | — |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Opus 5.5: 47.1 (#19), Muse Glimmer 30B: —
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1532 | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5.5 leads
Claude Opus 5.5: 78.2 (#3), Muse Glimmer 30B: 69.9
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 2050 | 1798 |
| LMArena Text | 1515 | — |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1533 | — |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1499 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 5.5 better than Muse Glimmer 30B?
Claude Opus 5.5 has enough public results to be ranked (#3); Muse Glimmer 30B does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Muse Glimmer 30B is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $1.20 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 5.5 lists at $4 and $20.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Opus 5.5 does, with 1M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5.5 and Muse Glimmer 30B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Opus 5.5 has 44 scored results on Noometry and Muse Glimmer 30B has 1.