Muse Glimmer 30B vs Qwen3.8 27B
Meta's local model against Qwen's, both roughly 30B and open weight. Both list prices from the makers’ own pages, and what three everyday jobs cost on each.
US dollars, standard rate, shortest context band. Price only: this page does not rank quality.
- Muse Glimmer 30B, per M tokens
- No list price
- Qwen3.8 27B, per M tokens
- $0.50 / $3
3,000 tokens in and 400 out each, at list price.
Per million tokens, Qwen3.8 27B costs $0.50 in and $3 out. Muse Glimmer 30B has no list price: Meta publishes its weights but sells no API for it, so the cost depends on the host. Muse Glimmer 30B reads up to 128K tokens at once, Qwen3.8 27B up to 1M.
Side by side
Each maker’s published rate for its standard tier. Cached input is what a repeated prompt prefix costs once the provider has stored it.
| Fact | Muse Glimmer 30B | Qwen3.8 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Meta | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Tier | Small and fast | Small and fast |
| Input, per M tokens | Not published | $0.50 |
| Output, per M tokens | Not published | $3.00 |
| Cached input | Not published | Not published |
| Context window | 128K | 1M |
| Released | 12 Aug 2026 | Not published |
| Weights | Open | Open |
The small print
What each base rate leaves out, from the makers’ own pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
- Muse Glimmer 30B
- No first-party price: open-weight model (Apache 2.0) that Meta does not serve on Meta Model API (self-hosted only, per https://dev.meta.ai/docs/models). Cost depends on the third-party host. Context is '128K tokens by default; longer contexts supported' (https://dev.meta.ai/docs/muse-glimmer). Release date is the developer.meta.com launch post date.
- Qwen3.8 27B
- Open-source model with a first-party hosted price (listed under 'Qwen (open source)'). International deployment, one tier up to 1M input tokens. Context taken from the top pricing tier (1M). Alibaba (Qwen)’s pricing page
Other comparisons
Every head to head on the list that involves Muse Glimmer 30B or Qwen3.8 27B.
Pay a quarter of list price
AIGROW API credit is metered at the makers’ list prices, and $25 buys $100 of usage. The credit page lists the models it covers; ask about any other before buying.
Prices checked 22 September 2026