o3 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B
o3 Mini leads Qwen3 30B A3B on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 12.5 to 7.6, and Qwen3 30B A3B costs 8.8x less per output token ($0.50 vs $4.40 per million). Updated October 21, 2026; 45 benchmarks have a result for both.
o3 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B: which to pick
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick o3 Mini for a larger context window (200K against 41K tokens) and work measured by Creative writing (Lech Mazur) or LMArena Text: German, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 45
- o3 Mini only
- 26
- Qwen3 30B A3B only
- 7
- 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.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Neither has a coding score yet.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
o3 Mini
o3 Mini leads, 12.5 against 7.6.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only o3 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 75.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only o3 Mini has a AIME result, 86.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only o3 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 78.7%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Qwen3 30B A3B has a Design Arena: websites result, 955.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
o3 Mini
o3 Mini takes 200K tokens against 41K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3 30B A3B
o3 Mini $0.0033, Qwen3 30B A3B $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- o3 Mini not benchmarked, Qwen3 30B A3B not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Reasoning, 10.2 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Long context reasoning (AA-LCR): o3 Mini 43.0% against Qwen3 30B A3B 0.0%, 43.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- o3 Mini $4.40 against Qwen3 30B A3B $0.50 per million output tokens, 8.8x apart.
- Context window
- o3 Mini takes 200K 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.
| Category | o3 Mini | Bars | Qwen3 30B A3B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 4 | 0 | 1 tie | |
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 5 | 0 | ||
| General | 19 | 4 | ||
| All shared boards | 40 | 4 | 1 tie |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index40
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | 60.4% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 42.4% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Lite | 32.3% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 71.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | 73.4% | 50.6% | o3 Mini |
| SciCode | 42.8% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 6.8% | 6.8% | Tie |
| GSO-Bench | 1.3% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | 29.8% | o3 Mini |
| Cybench | 22.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1378 | 1337 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1364 | 1340 | o3 Mini |
| SciCode | 7.7% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 26 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 12.5 | 7.6 | o3 Mini |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 140.2 | 137.3 | o3 Mini |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 31.3% | 26.0% | o3 Mini |
| Neither model has a result on the other 40 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 75.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 77.3% | 61.6% | o3 Mini |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 12.0% | 6.2% | o3 Mini |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 77.0% | 61.7% | o3 Mini |
| ARC-AGI | 34.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 3.0% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| SimpleBench | 22.8% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | 15.0% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | 7.0% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1365 | 1314 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1364 | 1314 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1375 | 1329 | o3 Mini |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 86.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | 91.8% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 91.3% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 72.3 | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 72.3% | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 76.9% | 62.8% | o3 Mini |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 18.6% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 0.0% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MATH level 5 | 96.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1396 | 1355 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1399 | 1363 | o3 Mini |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 78.7% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 71.5% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 45.3% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 69.4% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 94.8% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | 80.2% | 77.7% | o3 Mini |
| SimpleQA Verified | 15.3% | Not measured | Only o3 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1339 | 1321 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1330 | 1318 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1328 | 1314 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1313 | 1309 | o3 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
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | Not measured | 955 | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | Not measured | 946 | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | Not measured | 899 | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | Not measured | 967 | Only Qwen3 30B A3B measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | Not measured | 942 | Only 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 index194
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| IFBench | 67.1% | 41.5% | o3 Mini |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 43.0% | 0.0% | o3 Mini |
| DTBench | 68.8% | 60.3% | o3 Mini |
| LMCA | 19.0% | 15.8% | o3 Mini |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 50.0% | 40.6% | o3 Mini |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | 61.7% | 75.3% | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| LMArena Text | 1337 | 1317 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1337 | 1283 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1286 | 1271 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: English | 1351 | 1335 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1319 | 1295 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1379 | 1347 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: German | 1303 | 1307 | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1286 | 1254 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1313 | 1261 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: French | 1334 | 1352 | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1321 | 1317 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1304 | 1291 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1294 | 1299 | Qwen3 30B A3B |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1320 | 1307 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1343 | 1312 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1313 | 1290 | o3 Mini |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1283 | 1258 | o3 Mini |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Qwen3 30B A3B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3 30B A3B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
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.
| Specification | OpenAI o3 Mini | Qwen3 30B A3B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | OpenAI | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | January 31, 2025 | April 28, 2025 |
| Context window | 200K | 41K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.10 | $0.12 |
| Output $/Mtok | $4.40 | $0.50 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 0 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is o3 Mini better than Qwen3 30B A3B for coding?
Neither model has a coding score yet, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick o3 Mini for a larger context window (200K against 41K tokens) and work measured by Creative writing (Lech Mazur) or LMArena Text: German, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, o3 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B?
o3 Mini costs $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens; Qwen3 30B A3B costs $0.12 and $0.50. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, o3 Mini or Qwen3 30B A3B?
o3 Mini, with 200K tokens against 41K.
How many benchmarks is the o3 Mini vs Qwen3 30B A3B comparison based on?
45 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. o3 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.