Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 44.4% higher average benchmark score. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Overall, Qwen3 30B A3B is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B was created as an efficient coding-specialized model, designed to bring strong programming capabilities to resource-conscious deployments. Built with 7 billion parameters optimized for code understanding and generation, it provides developers with a lightweight option for code-related tasks.
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.
7 months newer

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-09-19

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
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