Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Grok-3 Mini leads with 17.8% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B offers 120.0K more tokens in context window than Grok-3 Mini. Both models have similar pricing. Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Grok-3 Mini is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
xAI
Grok 3 Mini was developed as an efficient version of Grok 3, designed to bring next-generation capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built to provide strong performance with practical efficiency, it extends Grok 3's innovations to broader application scenarios.
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

Grok-3 Mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3 30B A3B
Grok-3 Mini
2024-11-17
Available providers and their performance metrics

Grok-3 Mini
xAI

Qwen3 30B A3B

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3 30B A3B

Grok-3 Mini

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita