Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Qwen3 235B A22B leads with 2.1% higher average benchmark score. Both models have similar pricing. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3 235B was developed as a large-scale model with 235 billion total parameters using a mixture-of-experts architecture activating 22 billion parameters. Built to provide frontier capabilities with computational efficiency through sparse activation, it represents Qwen's advancement into very large-scale model development.
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.
Launched on the same date

Qwen3 235B A22B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29

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

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 30B A3B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 7 common benchmarks

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 30B A3B
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen3 235B A22B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita
Together

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 235B A22B

Qwen3 30B A3B

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita