Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 13.4% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3 30B A3B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B was developed as a compact distilled variant, designed to bring reasoning capabilities to a more efficient 8B parameter Llama base. Built to democratize access to reasoning-enhanced models, it provides a lightweight option for applications requiring analytical depth with limited resources.
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.
3 months newer

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 30B A3B

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Qwen3 30B A3B
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