Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models have similar pricing. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Mistral AI
Devstral Small was developed as a more efficient development-focused model, designed to bring software engineering assistance to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide coding capabilities with reduced computational requirements, it enables developer tools in environments where efficiency is paramount.
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.
2 months newer

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

Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral AI
2025-07-11
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Devstral Small 1.1

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Devstral Small 1.1
Mistral AI

Qwen3 30B A3B

Devstral Small 1.1

Qwen3 30B A3B

Devstral Small 1.1

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
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