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.
xAI
Grok-1.5 is a language model developed by xAI. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 63.9% across 9 benchmarks. It excels particularly in GSM8k (90.0%), DocVQA (85.6%), MMLU (81.3%). Released in 2024, it represents xAI's latest advancement in AI technology.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 30B A3B is a language model developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. It achieves strong performance with an average score of 73.3% across 8 benchmarks. It excels particularly in Arena Hard (91.0%), AIME 2024 (80.4%), LiveBench (74.3%). It supports a 256K token context window for handling large documents. The model is available through 3 API providers. It's licensed for commercial use, making it suitable for enterprise applications. Released in 2025, it represents Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team's latest advancement in AI technology.
1 year newer
Grok-1.5
xAI
2024-03-28
Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 16 common benchmarks
Grok-1.5
Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics
Grok-1.5
Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Grok-1.5
Qwen3 30B A3B
Grok-1.5
Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
Novita