Model comparison
Llama 4 Maverick vs Muse Glimmer
Muse Glimmer is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 14 shared benchmarks.
MetaSummary
- They share 14 benchmarks with published results for both. Llama 4 Maverick scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Glimmer in 8 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Muse Glimmer leads 57.5 to 38.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is SciCode: 33.1% for Llama 4 Maverick and 44.9% for Muse Glimmer.
Side by side
| Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Meta | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 30.9 | 41.7 |
| Released | 2025-04-05 | 2026-08-10 |
| Weights | Open | Open |
| Context window | 128K | — |
| Max output | 4K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $0.19 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $0.65 | — |
| Results tracked | 54 | 15 |
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Category by category
Coding Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.6 (#324), Muse Glimmer: 40.4 (#142)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| SciCode | 33.1% | 44.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1302 | 1416 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 21% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 15.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1355 |
| WeirdML | 24.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 49.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 61.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 172.97 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 28.2 (#91), Muse Glimmer: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 37.3% | — |
Reasoning Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 10.1 (#342), Muse Glimmer: 25.7 (#144)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| CritPt | 0% | 2.6% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1281 | 1396 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 27.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 55.9% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 8% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 4.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.6% | — |
| DTBench | 61.9% | — |
| LMCA | 15.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 132.2 | — |
| ForecastBench | 57.5 | — |
Math Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 26.0 (#262), Muse Glimmer: 38.8 (#125)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1299 | 1417 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 20.6% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 42.2% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 73% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 0.7% | — |
Knowledge Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 33.4 (#204), Muse Glimmer: 38.5 (#143)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1259 | 1386 |
| GPQA Diamond | 67% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 5.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 81% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.6% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 8.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 65% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.6 (#105), Muse Glimmer: —
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1142 | — |
| GeoBench | 52% | — |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 31.8% | — |
Multilingual Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 42.2 (#195), Muse Glimmer: 50.5 (#122)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1269 | 1384 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1277 | 1412 |
| LMArena Russian | 1286 | 1390 |
| LMArena French | 1259 | — |
| LMArena German | 1291 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1207 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1203 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1293 | — |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Llama 4 Maverick: 71.7 (#146), Muse Glimmer: 72.6 (#135)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1267 | 1375 |
| IFEval | 90.8% | — |
Long Context Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 31.4 (#279), Muse Glimmer: 42.1 (#129)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1280 | 1382 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.2% | — |
Writing & Preference Muse Glimmer leads
Llama 4 Maverick: 38.8 (#252), Muse Glimmer: 57.5 (#126)
| Benchmark | Llama 4 Maverick | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1287 | 1389 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1267 | 1339 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1289 | 1399 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 62% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 860 | — |
| WildBench | 80% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Llama 4 Maverick better than Muse Glimmer?
Muse Glimmer is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 30.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Llama 4 Maverick or Muse Glimmer better for coding?
Muse Glimmer scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 26.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Llama 4 Maverick and Muse Glimmer share?
14 benchmarks have published results for both models. Llama 4 Maverick has 54 scored results on Noometry and Muse Glimmer has 15.