Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Phi-3.5-vision-instruct supports multimodal inputs. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Microsoft
Phi-3.5 Vision was developed as a multimodal variant of Phi-3.5, designed to understand and reason about both images and text. Built to extend the Phi family's efficiency into vision-language tasks, it enables compact multimodal AI for practical applications.
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.
8 months newer

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct
Microsoft
2024-08-23

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Available providers and their performance metrics

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Phi-3.5-vision-instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
Novita