Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Muse Glimmer 30B
Muse Glimmer 30B leads Gemini 2.5 Pro on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 17.5 to 16.1, and Muse Glimmer 30B costs 7.4x less per output token ($1.35 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 4 benchmarks have a result for both.
Gemini 2.5 Pro or Muse Glimmer 30B: which to pick
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a coding score, 19.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Muse Glimmer 30B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Muse Glimmer 30B for output tokens 7.4x cheaper ($1.35 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by AA Coding Index or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 4
- Gemini 2.5 Pro only
- 86
- Muse Glimmer 30B only
- 1
- Like-for-like categories
- 4 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Muse Glimmer 30B
Muse Glimmer 30B leads, 17.5 against 16.1.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Muse Glimmer 30B
Muse Glimmer 30B leads, 8.5 against 1.6.
Same board, both measured
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a Design Arena: websites result, 1167.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro takes 1.05M tokens against 131K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Muse Glimmer 30B
Gemini 2.5 Pro $0.0063, Muse Glimmer 30B $0.0010 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has the number, $0.64.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Gemini 2.5 Pro 19.1 from 3 benchmarks, Muse Glimmer 30B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 15.7 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- AA Coding Index: Gemini 2.5 Pro 33.3 against Muse Glimmer 30B 49.0, 15.7 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Gemini 2.5 Pro $10.00 against Muse Glimmer 30B $1.35 per million output tokens, 7.4x apart.
- Context window
- Gemini 2.5 Pro takes 1.05M tokens, Muse Glimmer 30B 131K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Bars | Muse Glimmer 30B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 0 | 4 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 53.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1226 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| AA Coding Index | 33.3 | 49.0 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 54.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 0.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| SciCode | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 26.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 32.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| GSO-Bench | 3.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| WeirdML | 54.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 962.5 | Only Muse Glimmer 30B measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1452 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1459 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1235 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena WebDev: from an image | 1285 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.1 | 17.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 145.1 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.6 | 8.5 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 54.1% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| GDPval | 23.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 41.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $574 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| BrowseComp-Plus | 29.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 35 boards here | |||
ReasoningDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 84.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 22.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 85.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| ARC-AGI | 41.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1455 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1452 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1453 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | 1274 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | 1281 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 70.3% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Math Index | 87.7 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | 87.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 84.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 24.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1450 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1454 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 63.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 68.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 50.6% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 86.2% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1480 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1476 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1480 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1439 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | 61.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1167 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1137 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1111 | 1144 | Muse Glimmer 30B |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1222 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1080 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1152 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index33 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 41.9% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 73.5% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| IFBench | 48.7% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 69.0% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| DTBench | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMCA | 34.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 83.8% | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text | 1458 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1437 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1454 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision | 1263 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1458 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1452 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1507 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1487 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1461 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1434 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1473 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1474 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1461 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1479 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1453 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1449 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1454 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1441 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | 1261 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | 1300 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | 1270 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | 1262 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | 1304 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | 1283 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | 1265 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| LMArena Document | 1421 | Not measured | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Muse Glimmer 30B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Muse Glimmer 30B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Muse Glimmer 30B costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | Meta Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | June 17, 2025 | August 9, 2026 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 131K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.25 | $0.325 |
| Output $/Mtok | $10.00 | $1.35 |
| Coding index | 19.1 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 3 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.64 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Gemini 2.5 Pro better than Muse Glimmer 30B for coding?
Only Gemini 2.5 Pro has a coding score, 19.1 on the Vibe Coding Index; Muse Glimmer 30B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Muse Glimmer 30B for output tokens 7.4x cheaper ($1.35 vs $10.00 per million) and work measured by AA Coding Index or AA Intelligence Index, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25 per million input tokens and $10.00 per million output tokens; Muse Glimmer 30B costs $0.325 and $1.35. Cost per solved task is known for Gemini 2.5 Pro only.
Which has the bigger context window, Gemini 2.5 Pro or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Gemini 2.5 Pro, with 1.05M tokens against 131K.
How many benchmarks is the Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Muse Glimmer 30B comparison based on?
4 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Gemini 2.5 Pro's coding index rests on 3 independent benchmarks and Muse Glimmer 30B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.