Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 30B A3B leads with 23.4% 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
Qwen2 72B was developed as the flagship model in the Qwen2 generation, designed to provide advanced language understanding with 72 billion parameters. Built to deliver strong performance across diverse tasks, it represented a significant advancement in Qwen's model capabilities when introduced.
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 72B Instruct
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2024-07-23

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

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen2 72B Instruct

Qwen3 30B A3B
Fireworks
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