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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B vs Qwen3 30B A3B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 2.1% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B was created as a larger distilled variant, designed to transfer more of DeepSeek-R1's reasoning capabilities into a Qwen-based foundation. Built to serve applications requiring enhanced analytical depth, it represents a powerful option in the distilled reasoning model family.
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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.
3 months newer
DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
DeepSeek
2025-01-20
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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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Input:$0.12
Output:$0.18($0.10 cheaper)
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Input:$0.10
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Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Average Score:67.5%
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Average Score:69.6%(+2.1%)
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
1 providers
DeepInfra
Throughput: 37 tok/s
Latency: 0.65ms
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Qwen3 30B A3B
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DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B
Avg Score:67.5%
Providers:1
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Qwen3 30B A3B
Avg Score:69.6%(+2.1%)
Providers:3