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Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Muse Glimmer 30B

Choose Muse Glimmer 30B for cost-sensitive text and image work, especially long documents, where it scores 83.3 on AA-LCR against 76 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and costs $0.64 per 1M tokens blended. Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for multimodal jobs needing video, audio or PDFs, or for higher overall quality, since its Intelligence Index is 22.2 against 17.5, though it costs $0.85 per 1M tokens blended.

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At a glance

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Blended price · per 1M tokens, lower is better

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite$0.85
Muse Glimmer 30B$0.64

Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite22.2
Muse Glimmer 30B17.5

Context window · tokens it can read at once

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite1.05M
Muse Glimmer 30B131K

Where they sit among all 44 models

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite ranks 31st of the 43 models with an Intelligence Index, Muse Glimmer 30B 33rd. Up and to the left is smarter for less money. Hover or tap a dot for its numbers, then click it to compare that model with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.

Intelligence: the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index. Price: blended per 1M tokens, 3 parts input to 1 part output, on a log scale.

Which one to pick

Pick Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite if

  • you want the higher overall score (22.2 vs 17.5)
  • you care about agentic work: 14.3 vs 8.5
  • you need a longer context window (1.05M vs 131K tokens)
  • you need to send video, audio and PDFs

Pick Muse Glimmer 30B if

  • you want the lower bill ($0.64 vs $0.85 per 1M tokens blended)
  • you care about AA-LCR (long documents): 83.3 vs 76
  • you care about τ-Bench Banking (tool use): 23.5 vs 17.5
  • you want open weights you can run yourself

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How smart is each one?

Of the 14 scores both models have, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is ahead on 7 and Muse Glimmer 30B on 4, and 3 are within a point.

Every intelligence score we have

Out of 100, higher is better. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Muse Glimmer 30B

Overall

  • Intelligence Index

By area

  • Coding

  • Agentic work

By field of work

  • Finance & accounting

  • Legal

  • Healthcare & medicine

    Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet

  • Economics

  • Engineering

  • Strategy & operations

Benchmarks

  • Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam

  • Science · GPQA Diamond

  • Scientific coding · SciCode

  • Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0

  • Tool use · τ-Bench Banking

  • Long documents · AA-LCR

  • Uncensored · UGI

    Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: not scored yet

Our tests

  • Rule that has to last 4 turns · our test, % of tries passed

    Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet

  • Three bullets, no letter e · our test, % of tries passed

    Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet

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The specs

Spec Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Muse Glimmer 30B
Input price$0.30 per 1M$0.35 per 1M
Output price$2.50 per 1M$1.50 per 1M
Cost per test task$0.1927Not tested
Context window1.05M131K
Max output66K131K
AcceptsText, Image, Video, Audio, PDFText, Image
Open weightsNoYes
LabGoogleMeta
ReleasedJul 2026Aug 2026
Knowledge cutoffMar 2026Jan 2026

Blended price weighs 3 parts input to 1 part output. List prices from models.dev. Cost per test task from Artificial Analysis.

Questions

Is Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Muse Glimmer 30B cheaper?

Muse Glimmer 30B is cheaper. It charges $0.35 per 1M input tokens and $1.50 per 1M output tokens, against $0.30 and $2.50 for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite. Blended 3 parts input to 1 part output, that is $0.64 against $0.85 per 1M tokens.

Which is smarter, Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite or Muse Glimmer 30B?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 22.2 against 17.5 for Muse Glimmer 30B. The biggest differences are on AA-LCR (76 vs 83.3) and τ-Bench Banking (17.5 vs 23.5).

Which has the longer context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts 1.05M tokens, against 131K for Muse Glimmer 30B.

Can I compare Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite and Muse Glimmer 30B on my own prompt?

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Where the numbers come from

Intelligence Index and benchmark scores are from Artificial Analysis, at each model’s highest effort, except SimpleQA, which is from Epoch AI, and the Uncensored score, which is from the UGI Leaderboard. The hallucination test is ours: questions with one exact answer, fake evidence pushed against right answers and requests that tempt a model to name packages that don’t exist. Prices are list prices from models.dev. Example answers come from our own test runs. Updated October 25, 2026.