# GPT-4o mini vs Muse Glimmer

> Muse Glimmer is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/gpt-4o-mini-vs-muse-glimmer
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 12

## Summary

- They share 12 benchmarks with published results for both. GPT-4o mini scores higher in 0 categories and Muse Glimmer in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Muse Glimmer leads 38.8 to 10.4.
- Muse Glimmer has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

## Snapshot

| | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | OpenAI | Meta |
| Noometry Index | 25.5 | 41.7 |
| Rank | 343 | 131 |
| Context | 128K | — |
| Input $/M | $0.15 | — |
| Output $/M | $0.60 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Open |

## Coding

- GPT-4o mini: 22.0 (#335)
- Muse Glimmer: 40.4 (#142)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1290 | 1416 |
| Aider Polyglot | 3.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1355 |
| SciCode | — | 44.9% |
| WeirdML | 11.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.1% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 43.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 83.5% | — |
| MBPP+ | 72.2% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- GPT-4o mini: 27.5 (#101)
- Muse Glimmer: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 17.4% | — |

## Reasoning

- GPT-4o mini: 8.7 (#347)
- Muse Glimmer: 25.7 (#144)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1267 | 1396 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0% | — |
| SimpleBench | 10.7% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 28.8% | — |
| CritPt | — | 2.6% |
| Chess Puzzles | 0% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 32.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 12% | — |
| DTBench | 54.4% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 50% | — |
| LMCA | 10.4% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.56 | — |
| LiveBench | 41.3% | — |
| PIQA | 88.7% | — |

## Math

- GPT-4o mini: 10.4 (#314)
- Muse Glimmer: 38.8 (#125)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1267 | 1417 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 0.7% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 6.9% | — |
| Omni-MATH | 28% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 36.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 52.6% | — |
| GSM8K | 91.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- GPT-4o mini: 17.7 (#284)
- Muse Glimmer: 38.5 (#143)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1235 | 1386 |
| GPQA Diamond | 37.7% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 8.3% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 60.3% | — |
| Confabulations | 37.2% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 36.8% | — |
| BoolQ | 88.7% | — |
| MMLU | 81.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- GPT-4o mini: 25.9 (#122)
- Muse Glimmer: —

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1066 | — |
| Video-MME | 64.8% | — |
| GeoBench | 64% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |

## Multilingual

- GPT-4o mini: 42.0 (#199)
- Muse Glimmer: 50.5 (#122)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1266 | 1384 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1265 | 1412 |
| LMArena Russian | 1275 | 1390 |
| LMArena French | 1297 | — |
| LMArena German | 1272 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1216 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1195 | — |
| LMArena Spanish | 1276 | — |

## Instruction Following

- GPT-4o mini: 61.9 (#239)
- Muse Glimmer: 72.6 (#135)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1258 | 1375 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 56.8% | — |
| IFEval | 78.2% | — |

## Long Context

- GPT-4o mini: 39.1 (#186)
- Muse Glimmer: 42.1 (#129)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1289 | 1382 |

## Writing & Preference

- GPT-4o mini: 39.5 (#248)
- Muse Glimmer: 57.5 (#126)

| Benchmark | GPT-4o mini | Muse Glimmer |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1286 | 1389 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1268 | 1339 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1285 | 1399 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 67.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 873 | — |
| WildBench | 79.1% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 28.6% | — |

## FAQ

### Is GPT-4o mini better than Muse Glimmer?

Muse Glimmer is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 25.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is GPT-4o mini or Muse Glimmer better for coding?

Muse Glimmer scores higher on coding benchmarks: 40.4 versus 22.0 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do GPT-4o mini and Muse Glimmer share?

12 benchmarks have published results for both models. GPT-4o mini has 60 scored results on Noometry and Muse Glimmer has 15.