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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Qwen3 30B A3B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 25.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 30B A3B. Qwen3 30B A3B is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Overall, Qwen3 30B A3B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
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Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B was created with a mixture-of-experts architecture featuring 30 billion total parameters and 3 billion active parameters. Built to provide strong capabilities with efficient inference through sparse activation, it balances performance with practical computational requirements.
1 year newer
Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude 3 Sonnet
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.30($17.60 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude 3 Sonnet
Average Score:40.4%
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Average Score:65.8%(+25.4%)
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude 3 Sonnet
3 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Bedrock
Throughput: 120 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude 3 Sonnet
Avg Score:40.4%
Providers:3
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Avg Score:65.8%(+25.4%)
Providers:3