Model vs model
Inkling Small vs Muse Glimmer 30B
Inkling Small suits agentic work and hard reasoning, scoring 25.7 on the Intelligence Index against 17.5 for Muse Glimmer 30B, with a 1M token context window. Muse Glimmer 30B suits tool-use and long-document jobs, where it scores higher, and it has cheaper input at $0.35 per 1M tokens against $0.45.
At a glance
Longer bar means the bigger number.
Intelligence Index · Artificial Analysis, higher is better
Context window · tokens it can read at once
Where they sit among all 44 models
Inkling Small ranks 27th 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 Inkling Small.
Which one to pick
Pick Inkling Small if
- you want the higher overall score (25.7 vs 17.5)
- you care about agentic work: 23.5 vs 8.5
- you care about Humanity's Last Exam (hard reasoning): 33.3 vs 22
- you need a longer context window (1M vs 131K tokens)
Pick Muse Glimmer 30B if
- you care about AA-LCR (long documents): 83.3 vs 75.7
How smart is each one?
Of the 14 scores both models have, Inkling Small is ahead on 11 and Muse Glimmer 30B on 2, and one is within a point.
Every intelligence score we have
Out of 100, higher is better. Inkling Small Muse Glimmer 30B
Overall
Intelligence Index
25.717.5
By area
Coding
52.949Agentic work
23.58.5
By field of work
Finance & accounting
27.717.5Legal
28.218.3Healthcare & medicine
23.7Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet
Economics
37.725Engineering
28.919.9Strategy & operations
21.314.5
Benchmarks
Factual knowledge · SimpleQA
19.1Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet
Hard reasoning · Humanity's Last Exam
33.322Science · GPQA Diamond
89.5 · 83.5Scientific coding · SciCode
49.744.9Terminal tasks · Terminal-Bench 4.0
1 · 0.5Tool use · τ-Bench Banking
18.823.5Long documents · AA-LCR
75.783.3Uncensored · UGI
44.1Inkling Small: not scored yet
Our tests
Rule that has to last 4 turns · our test, % of tries passed
67Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet
Three bullets, no letter e · our test, % of tries passed
100Muse Glimmer 30B: not scored yet
The specs
| Spec | Inkling Small | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.45 per 1M | $0.35 per 1M |
| Output price | $1.20 per 1M | $1.50 per 1M |
| Cost per test task | $0.0895 | Not tested |
| Context window | 1M | 131K |
| Max output | 1M | 131K |
| Accepts | Text, Image, PDF | Text, Image |
| Open weights | Yes | Yes |
| Lab | Thinking Machines | Meta |
| Released | Jul 2026 | Aug 2026 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Not published | Jan 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 Inkling Small or Muse Glimmer 30B cheaper?
They cost the same, $0.64 per 1M tokens blended.
Which is smarter, Inkling Small or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Inkling Small scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 25.7 against 17.5 for Muse Glimmer 30B. The biggest differences are on Agentic work (23.5 vs 8.5) and Humanity's Last Exam (33.3 vs 22).
Which has the longer context window?
Inkling Small accepts 1M tokens, against 131K for Muse Glimmer 30B.
Can I compare Inkling Small and Muse Glimmer 30B on my own prompt?
Yes. ModelCompare sends one prompt to both models at once and shows each answer side by side with what it cost. You can try it free without an account.
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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.