Model comparison
DeepSeek-R1 vs Muse Glimmer
DeepSeek-R1 and Muse Glimmer score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.3 vs 41.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
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MetaSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. DeepSeek-R1 scores higher in 6 categories and Muse Glimmer in 2 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Muse Glimmer leads 25.7 to 18.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 35.7% for DeepSeek-R1 and 44.9% for Muse Glimmer.
- Muse Glimmer has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.
Side by side
| DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | DeepSeek | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 42.3 | 41.7 |
| Released | 2025-01-20 | 2026-08-10 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |
| Context window | 164K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.50 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $2.15 | — |
| Results tracked | 52 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 46.3 (#68), Muse Glimmer: 40.4 (#142)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 35.7% | 44.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1427 | 1416 |
| Aider Polyglot | 71.4% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1355 |
| WeirdML | 41.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 66.7% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 804.12 | — |
| AlgoTune | 1.7 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
DeepSeek-R1: 30.7 (#75), Muse Glimmer: —
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 35.1% | — |
| BALROG | 34.9% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 53.8% | — |
Reasoning Muse Glimmer leads
DeepSeek-R1: 18.6 (#278), Muse Glimmer: 25.7 (#144)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 1.1% | 2.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1416 | 1396 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 1.3% | — |
| SimpleBench | 40.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 69.4% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 21.2% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 83.2% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 69.8% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.29 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60 | — |
| LiveBench | 71.6% | — |
Math DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 43.8 (#79), Muse Glimmer: 38.8 (#125)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1400 | 1417 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.4% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.4% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 80.7% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.6% | — |
Knowledge DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 44.5 (#87), Muse Glimmer: 38.5 (#143)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1394 | 1386 |
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 79.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 12.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 11.3% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 66.6% | — |
Multilingual DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 52.4 (#85), Muse Glimmer: 50.5 (#122)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1412 | 1384 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1442 | 1412 |
| LMArena Russian | 1423 | 1390 |
| LMArena French | 1417 | — |
| LMArena German | 1404 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1391 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1360 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1411 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
DeepSeek-R1: 72.0 (#143), Muse Glimmer: 72.6 (#135)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1382 | 1375 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 80.5% | — |
| IFEval | 78.4% | — |
Long Context DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 45.4 (#36), Muse Glimmer: 42.1 (#129)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1391 | 1382 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 75% | — |
Writing & Preference DeepSeek-R1 leads
DeepSeek-R1: 61.4 (#88), Muse Glimmer: 57.5 (#126)
| Benchmark | DeepSeek-R1 | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1428 | 1389 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1405 | 1339 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1405 | 1399 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1500 | — |
| WildBench | 82.8% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 48.5% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is DeepSeek-R1 better than Muse Glimmer?
DeepSeek-R1 and Muse Glimmer score almost the same on the Noometry Index (42.3 vs 41.7), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is DeepSeek-R1 or Muse Glimmer better for coding?
DeepSeek-R1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 46.3 versus 40.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do DeepSeek-R1 and Muse Glimmer share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. DeepSeek-R1 has 52 scored results on Noometry and Muse Glimmer has 15.