Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
DeepSeek
DeepSeek-R1-Zero was introduced as an experimental variant trained with minimal human supervision, designed to develop reasoning patterns through self-guided reinforcement learning. Built to explore how models can discover analytical strategies independently, it represents research into autonomous reasoning capability development.
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 Zero
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 Zero

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3 30B A3B

DeepSeek R1 Zero

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
Novita