Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 31.2% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Overall, Qwen3 30B A3B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B was developed as a specialized coding model, designed to excel at programming tasks with 32 billion parameters specifically optimized for code. Built to understand and generate code across multiple programming languages, it serves developers requiring advanced code completion, debugging, and explanation capabilities.
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.
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Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

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

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Hyperbolic
Lambda

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen2.5-Coder 32B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita