Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 1.4% higher average benchmark score. Claude 3.5 Sonnet offers 144.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 30B A3B. Qwen3 30B A3B is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
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.
6 months newer

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 30B A3B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita