Qwen3.8-27B vs Muse-Glimmer-30B

Specs, VRAM requirements and download trends — updated 24 October 2026.

Qwen · A · Open weights
Params
27.8 B
Context
—
30d
7.7 M
apache-2.0 · commercial OK
meta-models · B · Open weights
Params
29.8 B
Context
—
30d
205 K
apache-2.0 · commercial OK

Specification comparison

Differences are highlighted; identical values are muted.

Specification Qwen3.8-27B Muse-Glimmer-30B
Deployment Open weights · also via API Open weights · also via API
Parameters 27.8 B 29.8 B
Architecture Qwen3_5ForConditionalGeneration MuseGlimmerForConditionalGeneration
Context length 262,144 131,072
Licence apache-2.0 apache-2.0
Commercial use Allowed Allowed
Languages — —
Downloads 30d 7,710,011 204,595
Downloads all time 17.7 M 1.1 M
Quantizations on the Hub SAFETENSORS SAFETENSORS
Gated No No
First seen on the Hub 2026-08-05 2026-08-09
API input price / 1M tokens $0.20 $0.30
API output price / 1M tokens $2.50 $1.20
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $2.70 $1.50
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.09 $0.04
AA Intelligence Index 33.7 17.5
AA Coding Index 68.1 49
AA Agentic Index 45.8 8.5
Max output tokens 235,929 16,384
API providers 21 2
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Qwen3.8-27B $2.70
Muse-Glimmer-30B $1.50

Muse-Glimmer-30B is 1.8× cheaper at list price.

Download trend

Daily snapshots, last 66 days (20 Aug – 24 Oct)

7.8 M207 K
Qwen3.8-27B Muse-Glimmer-30B

VRAM side by side

On RTX 4090 · 24 GB · 8K context unless noted

Qwen3.8-27B · fp16 65.8 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit
Muse-Glimmer-30B · fp16 70.5 GB / 24 GB
❌ Won’t fit

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