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GPT-5.4 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B

GPT-5.4 Mini leads Qwen3 30B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 24.1 to 7.6, and Qwen3 30B A3B costs 9.0x less per output token ($0.50 vs $4.50 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 41 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace GPT-5.4 Mini Replace Qwen3 30B A3B
GPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI
Coding
35.8
Overall
44.0
Output $/M
$4.50
41
Qwen3 30B A3BQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
38.2
Output $/M
$0.50
0
vs boards won of 41 shared

GPT-5.4 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B: which to pick

Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a coding score, 35.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 30B A3B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 30B A3B for output tokens 9.0x cheaper ($0.50 vs $4.50 per million).

Model AGPT-5.4 MiniOpenAI35.8/1005 independent benchmarks$0.70 per solved taskModel BQwen3 30B A3BQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
41
GPT-5.4 Mini only
48
Qwen3 30B A3B only
11
Like-for-like categories
7 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-5.4 Mini 35.8 from 5 benchmarks, Qwen3 30B A3B not benchmarked.
Widest category
Agentic work, 57.3 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): GPT-5.4 Mini 77.0% against Qwen3 30B A3B 0.0%, 77.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
GPT-5.4 Mini $4.50 against Qwen3 30B A3B $0.50 per million output tokens, 9.0x apart.
Context window
GPT-5.4 Mini takes 400K 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-5.4 MiniBarsQwen3 30B A3BTies
Coding40
Intelligence20
Agentic work10
Reasoning60
Math30
Knowledge40
General210
All shared boards410
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
Coding benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
LMArena WebDev1397Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
AA Coding Index56.1Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)81.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)73.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI)2.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)48.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Code migration (Vals AI)12.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)54.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured50.6%Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
SciCode52.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)52.3%6.8%GPT-5.4 Mini
FrontierCode27.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
WeirdML60.3%29.8%GPT-5.4 Mini
ALE-Bench1188.6Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: coding14381337GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: software and IT14361340GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena WebDev: React1386Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1419Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
Intelligence benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
AA Intelligence Index24.17.6GPT-5.4 Mini
Epoch Capabilities Index148.7137.3GPT-5.4 Mini
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
Agentic work benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
AA Agentic Index17.9Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)45.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)8.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)12.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)45.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
τ²-Bench Telecom83.3%26.0%GPT-5.4 Mini
DeepResearch Bench36.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 34 boards here
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
Reasoning benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
GPQA Diamond83.1%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)79.3%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)87.5%61.6%GPT-5.4 Mini
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)28.1%6.2%GPT-5.4 Mini
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)86.9%61.7%GPT-5.4 Mini
ARC-AGI63.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ARC-AGI-218.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Chess puzzles23.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Mystery game puzzles11.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14241314GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: expert14351314GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14201329GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Vision: diagrams1266Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: homework1285Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Kagi LLM Benchmark37.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
Math benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
AIME95.6%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
AA Math IndexNot measured72.3Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured72.3%Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
OTIS Mock AIME88.9%62.8%GPT-5.4 Mini
FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 351.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
FrontierMath, tier 49.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
ProofBench21.0%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: math14181355GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: mathematical work14291363GPT-5.4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
Knowledge benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
MMLU Pro84.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)51.7%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)60.9%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)71.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)63.5%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured77.7%Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
SimpleQA Verified29.4%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: science14171321GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13951318GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: legal and government14141314GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: business and finance14181309GPT-5.4 Mini
Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index5 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
Design Arena: websitesNot measured954Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
Design Arena: UI componentsNot measured943Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
Design Arena: game devNot measured898Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
Design Arena: data vizNot measured967Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
Design Arena: all code categoriesNot measured941Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index210
General benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3BLeader
SAGE (Vals AI)50.8%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Vals Multimodal Index54.2%Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
IFBench73.3%41.5%GPT-5.4 Mini
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)77.0%0.0%GPT-5.4 Mini
DTBench80.0%60.3%GPT-5.4 Mini
LMCA40.8%15.8%GPT-5.4 Mini
Fiction.LiveBenchNot measured40.6%Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
Creative writing (Lech Mazur)Not measured75.3%Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured
LMArena Text14121317GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: instruction following14051283GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: creative writing13701271GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Vision1245Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Text: English14121335GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: non-English14051295GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: Chinese14461347GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: German14081307GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: Japanese13751254GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: Korean13701261GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: French14411352GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: Spanish14051317GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: Russian14171291GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: Polish14151299GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: multi-turn14291307GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: longer queries14081312GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: writing and language13931290GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13731258GPT-5.4 Mini
LMArena Vision: English1244Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: Chinese1286Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: reading text1253Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: humor1235Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing things1218Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
LMArena Vision: creative writing1222Not measuredOnly GPT-5.4 Mini measured
Neither model has a result on the other 14 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for GPT-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
BenchmarkGPT-5.4 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-5.4 Mini$0.0030Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B$0.0004Fits in one request

Qwen3 30B A3B costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

GPT-5.4 Mini$0.051Fits in one request
Qwen3 30B A3B$0.0075Exceeds the context window

Qwen3 30B A3B costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

GPT-5.4 Mini$0.195Fits 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-5.4 Mini and Qwen3 30B A3B
SpecificationOpenAI GPT-5.4 MiniQwen3 30B A3B
MakerOpenAIQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedMarch 17, 2026April 28, 2025
Context window400K41K
Input $/Mtok$0.75$0.12
Output $/Mtok$4.50$0.50
Coding index35.8Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it50
Cost per solved task$0.70Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is GPT-5.4 Mini better than Qwen3 30B A3B for coding?

Only GPT-5.4 Mini has a coding score, 35.8 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 30B A3B has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 30B A3B for output tokens 9.0x cheaper ($0.50 vs $4.50 per million).

Which is cheaper, GPT-5.4 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B?

GPT-5.4 Mini costs $0.75 per million input tokens and $4.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.12 and $0.50. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5.4 Mini only.

Which has the bigger context window, GPT-5.4 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B?

GPT-5.4 Mini, with 400K tokens against 41K.

How many benchmarks is the GPT-5.4 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B comparison based on?

41 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. GPT-5.4 Mini's coding index rests on 5 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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