Model comparison
Amazon Nova 2 Pro vs Muse Glimmer 30B
Amazon against Meta, compared on context, price, and attributed benchmark results.
Amazon Nova 2 Pro: profile checked October 25, 2026Muse Glimmer 30B: profile checked October 25, 2026Individual provider fields may changeEvidence confidence: Insufficient data — see receipts below
Amazon
Amazon Nova 2 Pro
Balanced
Meta
Muse Glimmer 30B
Balanced · Open weights
| Specification | Amazon Nova 2 Pro | Muse Glimmer 30B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | ||
| Provider | Amazon | Meta |
| Tier | ||
| Tier | Balanced | Balanced |
| Context window | ||
| Context window | Winner: 1M | 131K |
| Max output | ||
| Max output | Not verifiedUnverified | Not verifiedUnverified |
| Input / 1M tokens | ||
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.25 | Not verifiedUnverified |
| Output / 1M tokens | ||
| Output / 1M tokens | $10 | Not verifiedUnverified |
| Weights | ||
| Weights | Closed | Open |
| Parameters | ||
| Parameters | Not verifiedUnverified | ~29.78B total including vision (checkpoint metadata; marketed as 30B) |
| Reasoning levels | ||
| Reasoning levels | low, medium, high | low, medium, high, xhigh |
| Modalities | ||
| Modalities | text, image, video, audio | text, image |
| License | ||
| License | Not verifiedUnverified | Apache 2.0 |
| Released | ||
| Released | December 2, 2025 | August 10, 2026 |
Dates beside benchmark scores refer to the linked source’s publication or capture date unless that source explicitly states when it measured the result. A shared URL alone does not establish comparable runs; unverified setups are marked. Prices are USD per million tokens at standard rates, excluding batch and caching discounts. Values we could not confirm from the provider are shown as “Not verified” rather than estimated.
Pricing tiers
Amazon Nova 2 Pro: Bedrock Global Standard $1.25/$10 per MTok; single-region $1.375/$11. Global Flex/Batch $0.625/$5 and regional $0.6875/$5.50. Global Priority $2.1875/$17.50 and regional $2.40625/$19.25. These are native Nova 2.0 Pro on-demand meters in the complete offer published October 16, 2026, with October 1 effective dates; not custom-model, provisioned-throughput or training prices. No Pro cached-input meter is present in this capture. Billing meters do not establish GA or account access.
Muse Glimmer 30B: Apache 2.0 weights, not served by Meta Model API; no first-party token tariff is verified. Self-hosting incurs compute/storage costs. Native config context is 131,072; longer-context support is a publisher claim, not an independently verified maximum.
Amazon Nova 2 Pro
Amazon's closed Nova 2 Pro preview accepts text, images, video and speech and generates text; its launch announcement specifies a one-million-token context.
Best for
- AWS-native workloads
- Multimodal
- Long-context
Watch out
Preview access was announced for Nova Forge customers through their AWS account team. Current account access, a stable API model ID and a hard output cap remain unverified. Launch documentation names low/medium/high thinking; the current detailed thinking guide covers Lite only, so do not transfer its request rules to Pro. The October 1 Artificial Analysis 14-point Pro row is an estimate and is withheld. Omission from a current model list does not prove retirement.
Muse Glimmer 30B
Muse Glimmer 30B is Meta's open-weight smaller Muse model for efficient self-hosting.
Best for
- Open-weight deployments
- Single-GPU serving
- Cost-sensitive
Watch out
Native template reasoning_strength low/medium/high/xhigh defaults high. It supports one tool call per turn, not parallel tool calls; standard serving APIs parse the native ATEM format. BF16 is about 60 GB; published 17 GB/20 GB GGUFs also need a separate 1.4 GB vision projector and optional 1.6 GB draft. Actual hardware fit/speed depends on runtime/context; weight footprint excludes KV cache and overhead. Current config fixes 131,072 positions, while longer-context support remains a publisher claim without a verified ceiling. A separate hard output cap remains unknown. Spark Open’s xhigh default, sparse architecture and parallel tool support must not be inherited.
When the cheaper one wins
One of these rows is missing a verified output price, so this page will not name a cheaper winner. Run the model picker against the actual job instead of guessing.
Run the model pickerEvidence confidence: Insufficient data
How strong and complete the evidence behind this comparison is — not a prediction of which model is better. Hard limitations apply: missing pricing; evidence too sparse.
- Pricing incomplete — No verified token pricing for Muse Glimmer 30B.
- 3/5 core specs verified on both sides — Not published for at least one side: max output, parameter count.
- No directly aligned benchmark setup — No benchmark has matching cited sources, source dates, units, effort and recorded run details on both models.
- Verified within the last 90 days — Older of the two catalog checks was 1 day ago.
- Both models carry source citations — Each side has at least two catalog sources on record.
Source receipts
Each catalog figure was checked against the provider or an independent second source on the date shown.
- Amazon Nova 2 Pro: AWS dated Pro preview, context, effort levels and access conditions (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Amazon Nova 2 Pro: Amazon exact Pro input modalities and text output (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Amazon Nova 2 Pro: AWS native billing meters, offer published October 16, 2026 (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Amazon Nova 2 Pro: AWS service quotas retain Nova 2 Pro Preview references (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Amazon Nova 2 Pro: Artificial Analysis October 1 captured public table; Pro estimate is withheld (accessed 2026-10-02)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
- Muse Glimmer 30B: Current scoped API/native checkpoint, licence or serving-channel evidence (accessed 2026-10-25)
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Common questions
Amazon Nova 2 Pro vs Muse Glimmer 30B
Answered from the verified figures on this page rather than general guidance.
Which has the larger context window, Amazon Nova 2 Pro or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Do Amazon Nova 2 Pro and Muse Glimmer 30B support the same reasoning levels?
Should I use Amazon Nova 2 Pro or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Can I self-host Amazon Nova 2 Pro or Muse Glimmer 30B?
Next step
Choosing between them
The verified figures that separate this pair, computed from the catalog rather than restated boilerplate.
- Context: Amazon Nova 2 Pro takes 1M against 131K for Muse Glimmer 30B — only decisive if your prompts approach the smaller window.
- Deployment: Muse Glimmer 30B publishes weights you can self-host; the other is API-only.
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