--- title: Meta's Muse Glimmer BEATS Qwen3.6 in Agentic Coding... description: A hands-on comparison of Meta's new Muse Glimmer 30B model against Qwen3 27B for agentic coding tasks, run through a local coding agent (Pi Coding Agent) using... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-muse-glimmer-beats-qwen3-6-in-agentic-coding-real-test--7j09zhliv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Meta's Muse Glimmer BEATS Qwen3.6 in Agentic Coding (Real Test) | daily.dev og:description: A hands-on comparison of Meta's new Muse Glimmer 30B model against Qwen3 27B for agentic coding tasks, run through a local coding agent (Pi Coding Agent) using... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/meta-s-muse-glimmer-beats-qwen3-6-in-agentic-coding-real-test--7j09zhliv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/7j09ZhliV.png og:image:alt: Meta's Muse Glimmer BEATS Qwen3.6 in Agentic Coding (Real Test) og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Meta's Muse Glimmer BEATS Qwen3.6 in Agentic Coding (Real Test) **[Execute Automation](https://daily.dev/sources/executeautomation)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A hands-on comparison of Meta's new Muse Glimmer 30B model against Qwen3 27B for agentic coding tasks, run through a local coding agent (Pi Coding Agent) using LM Studio. The test involves analyzing a codebase and generating feature suggestions. Muse Glimmer produced more feature categories, made 57 tool calls vs Qwen's 50, consumed 36% more input tokens, and generated 5.6% more output tokens. The conclusion is that Muse Glimmer outperforms Qwen 27B in agentic coding scenarios, likely due to its training on long-horizon execution, tool use, failure recovery, and reinforcement learning across coding and agentic domains. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How does Meta Muse Glimmer 30B compare to Qwen3 27B for agentic coding tasks? In a direct agentic coding test using the Pi Coding Agent, Muse Glimmer made 57 tool calls versus Qwen's 50, consumed 36% more input tokens (about 147,000 additional tokens), and produced 29% more assistant messages. Muse Glimmer also generated a more exhaustive feature list across 9 categories compared to Qwen's 20 flat suggestions, suggesting stronger long-horizon task execution and tool use capabilities. _Developers choosing between local agentic coding models track real-world comparisons like this on daily.dev._ ### Can I run Meta Muse Glimmer locally with LM Studio? Yes, Meta Muse Glimmer is available to download directly in LM Studio. Once loaded, it runs at approximately 26–27 tokens per second, which is considered solid performance for a 30 billion parameter model running locally. _Those running local LLMs for coding agents find hardware and tooling discussions on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Muse-Glimmer-30B and Qwen 3.8-27B models now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart](https://daily.dev/posts/muse-glimmer-30b-and-qwen-3-8-27b-models-now-available-on-amazon-sagemaker-jumpstart-tdhrrjsjl) · AWS · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [Muse Glimmer 30B runs on my 32GB GPU, handles its own tool calls, and never leaves the machine](https://daily.dev/posts/muse-glimmer-30b-runs-on-my-32gb-gpu-handles-its-own-tool-calls-and-never-leaves-the-machine-vihln3unw) · XDA Developers · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Meta enters the crowded AI coding battle with Muse Spark 1.1](https://daily.dev/posts/meta-enters-the-crowded-ai-coding-battle-with-muse-spark-1-1-wtfjrleyt) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: 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