Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Qwen3 30B A3B is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ 32B was developed as a reasoning-focused model, designed to emphasize analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities. Built with 32 billion parameters optimized for step-by-step reasoning, it demonstrates Qwen's exploration into models that prioritize deliberate analytical processing.
1 month newer

QwQ-32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-03-05

Qwen3 30B A3B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
2025-04-29
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Qwen3 30B A3B

QwQ-32B
QwQ-32B
2024-11-28
Available providers and their performance metrics

Qwen3 30B A3B
DeepInfra
Fireworks
Novita

Qwen3 30B A3B

QwQ-32B

Qwen3 30B A3B

QwQ-32B

QwQ-32B