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GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B

GPT-4.1 Mini leads Qwen3 30B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 10.2 to 7.6, and Qwen3 30B A3B costs 3.2x less per output token ($0.50 vs $1.60 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 51 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-4.1 Mini Replace Qwen3 30B A3B
GPT-4.1 MiniOpenAI
Coding
No data
Overall
31.9
Output $/M
$1.60
41
Qwen3 30B A3BQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
38.2
Output $/M
$0.50
10
vs boards won of 51 shared

GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B: which to pick

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for a larger context window (1.05M against 41K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Epoch Capabilities Index, where it leads.

Model AGPT-4.1 MiniOpenAINot benchmarkedNo coding benchmark$1.818 per solved taskModel BQwen3 30B A3BQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
51
GPT-4.1 Mini only
35
Qwen3 30B A3B only
1
Like-for-like categories
8 of 9

Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.

Which one for your work

Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.

At a glance

Coding index
GPT-4.1 Mini not benchmarked, Qwen3 30B A3B not benchmarked.
Widest category
Agentic work, 26.9 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): GPT-4.1 Mini 44.0% against Qwen3 30B A3B 0.0%, 44.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-4.1 Mini $1.60 against Qwen3 30B A3B $0.50 per million output tokens, 3.2x apart.
Context window
GPT-4.1 Mini takes 1.05M tokens, Qwen3 30B A3B 41K.

Benchmark by benchmark

First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryGPT-4.1 MiniBarsQwen3 30B A3BTies
Coding41
Intelligence11
Agentic work10
Reasoning51
Math05
Knowledge50
Web design50
General202
All shared boards4110
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index41
Coding benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
Aider polyglot32.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified23.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Coding Index20.2Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)58.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)48.3%50.6%Qwen3 30B A3B
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)7.6%6.8%GPT-4.1 Mini
WeirdML37.6%29.8%GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: coding13671337GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: software and IT13601340GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 30 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
AA Intelligence Index10.27.6GPT-4.1 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index134.9137.3Qwen3 30B A3B
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
τ²-Bench Telecom52.9%26.0%GPT-4.1 Mini
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)50.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 39 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
GPQA Diamond67.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)70.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)66.4%61.6%GPT-4.1 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)5.0%6.2%Qwen3 30B A3B
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)65.8%61.7%GPT-4.1 Mini
ARC-AGI3.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-20.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Chess puzzles1.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles7.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts13491314GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: expert13381314GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English13621329GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision: diagrams1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1214Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark48.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index05
Math benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
AIME49.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH 500 (Vals AI)88.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MGSM (Vals AI)87.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
AA Math Index46.372.3Qwen3 30B A3B
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)46.3%72.3%Qwen3 30B A3B
OTIS Mock AIME44.7%62.8%Qwen3 30B A3B
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 36.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MATH level 587.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math13431355Qwen3 30B A3B
LMArena Text: mathematical work13471363Qwen3 30B A3B
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
MMLU Pro77.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)78.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)57.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)65.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MedQA (Vals AI)84.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)78.1%77.7%GPT-4.1 Mini
SimpleQA Verified12.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science13281321GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13241318GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: legal and government13431314GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance13221309GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
Web design benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
Design Arena: websites997954GPT-4.1 Mini
Design Arena: UI components958943GPT-4.1 Mini
Design Arena: game dev1070898GPT-4.1 Mini
Design Arena: data viz1034967GPT-4.1 Mini
Design Arena: 3D836Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Design Arena: all code categories993941GPT-4.1 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index202
General benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
IFBench38.3%41.5%Qwen3 30B A3B
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)44.0%0.0%GPT-4.1 Mini
DTBench68.8%60.3%GPT-4.1 Mini
LMCA21.1%15.8%GPT-4.1 Mini
Fiction.LiveBench44.4%40.6%GPT-4.1 Mini
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)Not measured75.3%Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
LMArena Text13411317GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: instruction following13331283GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing12991271GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision1181Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English13561335GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: non-English13181295GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Chinese13291347Qwen3 30B A3B
LMArena Text: German13501307GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese12901254GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean12981261GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: French13581352GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Spanish13191317GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Russian13241291GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: Polish13261299GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: multi-turn13541307GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries13441312GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language13191290GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13001258GPT-4.1 Mini
LMArena Vision: English1191Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1186Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1188Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: captioning1174Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1187Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1182Not measuredOnly GPT-4.1 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
Neither model has a result on 5 boards here

What each workload costs

Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.

Chat turn

1K input + 500 output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.0012Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B$0.0004Fits in one request

Qwen3 30B A3B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.025Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B$0.0075Exceeds the context window

Qwen3 30B A3B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-4.1 Mini$0.096Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B$0.029Exceeds the context window

Qwen3 30B A3B costs less

Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.

Specification differences

The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.

Specifications of GPT-4.1 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-4.1 MiniQwen3 30B A3B
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedApril 14, 2025April 28, 2025
Context window1.05M41K
Input $/Mtok$0.40$0.12
Output $/Mtok$1.60$0.50
Coding indexNot benchmarkedNot benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it00
Cost per solved task$1.818Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-4.1 Mini better than Qwen3 30B A3B for coding?

Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick GPT-4.1 Mini for a larger context window (1.05M against 41K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) or Epoch Capabilities Index, where it leads.

Which is cheaper, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B?

GPT-4.1 Mini costs $0.40 per million input tokens and $1.60 per million output tokens; Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.12 and $0.50. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-4.1 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-4.1 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B?

GPT-4.1 Mini, with 1.05M tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-4.1 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B comparison based on?

51 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-4.1 Mini's coding index rests on 0 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 30B A3B's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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