Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. o1 offers 44.0K more tokens in context window than Qwen3 30B A3B. Qwen3 30B A3B is $74.60 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
OpenAI
o1 was developed as part of OpenAI's reasoning-focused model series, designed to spend more time thinking before responding. Built to excel at complex reasoning tasks in science, coding, and mathematics, it employs extended internal reasoning processes to solve harder problems than traditional language models through careful step-by-step analysis.
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.
4 months newer

o1
OpenAI
2024-12-17

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

o1

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 3 common benchmarks

o1

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

o1
Azure
OpenAI


o1

Qwen3 30B A3B

o1

Qwen3 30B A3B
Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita