Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 4.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4 offers 72.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 30B A3B. Qwen3 30B A3B is $17.60 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 supports multimodal inputs. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
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.
23 days newer

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3 30B A3B

Claude Sonnet 4

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita