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Muse Glimmer 30B

Open-weight agentic/vision model for local deployment.

Model idmeta/muse-glimmer-30b

Price$0.30 in, $1.20 out per 1M tokens

Checked29 September 2026

Knows up to January 2026

1,945events after its cutoff

85 historic, 444 major. 286 days of news.

It launched in August 2026, already missing 241 of them.

Five things it has never heard of

How to call it

2 ways to use Muse Glimmer 30B, with the model id each provider expects.

Providers, model ids, endpoints and docs for Muse Glimmer 30B
ProviderModel idEndpointDocs
Hugging Face huggingface.co
OpenRouter meta/muse-glimmer-30b openrouter.ai

Pricing

Prices for Muse Glimmer 30B
Input$0.30 per 1M tokens
Output$1.20 per 1M tokens

As published: “per 1M tokens (USD) on OpenRouter; open weights free to self-host”.

Source: openrouter.ai, checked 29 September 2026.

Specs

Input
Text and images
Output
Text
Context window
131,072 tokens
Max output
Not published
Open weights
Yes
Licence
Apache-2.0
Training cutoff
January 2026
Released
August 2026
Status
Current
Type
Language model

What stands out

What its maker marketed at launch, and what people found later, each with its source.

  • Meta open weights under Apache 2.0

    ~29.6B dense text+image model released Apache 2.0 (Llama used a custom community license), with llama.cpp / MLX / ExecuTorch integrations.

    Source: research.meta.ai

  • Local agents on one consumer GPU

    Quantized to under 20GB for 24-32GB consumer GPUs/Macs; bundled DFlash drafter for speculative decoding gives ~3.1x speed-up on RTX 5090.

    Source: huggingface.co

  • Agentic focus for its size

    Optimized for multi-step reasoning, reliable tool use and failure recovery; Meta benchmarks it as competitive with Gemma4-31B and Qwen3.6-27B on agentic/coding evals.

    Source: research.meta.ai

Four assistants, one scale

Muse Glimmer 30B is added as a fifth row. Each row runs from what the model knows (graphite) through the months between its cutoff and its launch (hatched) to today (pink).

  1. GPT-6 Astra 271 at launch, 1,863 today
  2. Claude Opus 5.5 372 at launch, 1,795 today
  3. Gemini 4 Hydrogen 1,863 at launch, 1,889 today
  4. Grok 4.7 387 at launch, 1,829 today
  5. Muse Glimmer 30B 241 at launch, 1,945 today
Show as a table
ModelCutoffReleasedMissing at launchMissing today
GPT-6 AstraApril 20263 September 20262711,863
Claude Opus 5.5June 202622 September 20263721,795
Gemini 4 HydrogenMarch 202612 November 20261,8631,889
Grok 4.7May 202621 September 20263871,829
Muse Glimmer 30BJanuary 2026August 20262411,945

Notes

HF org is meta-models, not meta-llama. No first-party Meta API id verified.

from transformers import pipeline
pipe = pipeline("image-text-to-text", model="meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B")

Sources: https://huggingface.co/meta-models/Muse-Glimmer-30B , https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model

Not yet checked against an official source: Released early Aug 2026 (exact day not verified).